February 2010 Newsletter
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Newsletter looks good!
Nice job on the February 2010 Newsletter. I used the View on line version. The navigation took a little getting used to but I succeeded. I did notice an announcement on page three that seemed suspect to me. There is a note for HO scale Code 55 curved turnouts coming from Atlas. Did I miss a code 55 HO scale product line from Atlas? Or should this be an N scale announcement? Or possibly HO scale curved turnouts in code 100 or code 83? We need a little clarification on this product announcement.
Eric
Eric Hansmann
El Paso, TX
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N scale it is.
It took me a few minutes to find the Atlas info, but the curved turnouts are in the N scale code 55 product line. They do look sweet. Details and a link to an image are here:
http://www.atlasrr.com/Trackmisc/code55track.htm
Eric
Eric Hansmann
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Sure is heavy in HO and larger scales. Look under more rocks next time.
Which scale are you thinking of?
Bill:
Which scale are you thinking of?
HO is 60% of the market, N is 20% of the market, then the other 20% is split between O, G, Z, and S (more or less in that order for these minority scales - very rough numbers)
We can skew our newsletter reporting all we want, but in any given month if we have 25 product annoucements, 15-20 of them will be HO, 3-6 more will be N, and then if we get lucky, we might have some O, G, Z thrown in. S being the smallest population of the minority scales can go several months between product announcements.
We didn't invent these popularities. If you know of a certain vendor in the minority scales that we should know about, use contact us product announcements to let us know. I'm all for reporting new products for something besides HO.
But the scale popularities also are what they are - so don't blame us for HO being the largest population and most popular scale.
Joe Fugate
Publisher, Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine
Good Newsletter
I thought the popular scales were well represented and I happen to appreciate all the HO activity as it is my chosen scale.
I thought N scale was well represented too. Sadly, you can only print what is known to be. MRH can turn over rocks but it's up to manufacturers and modelers to do their part too, IMO.
which scale?
Hi,
Your MRH news is great! I love the Scale Color Key:
Z scale news
N scale news
HO scale news
S scale news
O scale news
G scale news
It helps keep me on track (;-o))
spincraft
PS - I think the word is spelled 'skew'. fyi