Bored with steam

[NW Modeling List]

Hi,
Great post, I can sympathize with the plight.  I think we are lucky also
with the rs-11 coming out that will add to the ability to model.
If you model anything in the steam era, you need a M.  Those don't exist
except for sunset brass.  The models are not really that great either... I
mean they are ok.
David

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019, 9:47 AM NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Roger: Actually there isn’t any rubbish at all on the N&W site.  There are
> modelers from all eras – steam and diesels – posting.
>
> It is a great bunch of guys who “plays well with others”!  It’s nice that
> you have brass models to fill the void as I had the same and some rarer
>
> pieces like the N&W pile driver and the VGN flat car dolly crane.  But
> brass does not fill the void for the majority of modelers.
>
> Most are not as blessed as you and I.  The average modeler does not have
> $2500 for a brass steam locomotive.  I have $2500 tied up waiting for the
> Spring Mills cabooses
>
> to arrive with no firm time frame of arrival which I am not real happy
> with.  We need to face the fact that times are changing and the diesel
> market is growing yearly
>
> unlike the steam market because of the available models.  Maybe I should
> have said that I am bored with the lack of N&W steam models (and Hoppers)
> with very little progress in the all the years of modeling.
>
> Therefore the 70’s and 80”s is filling that void. I don’t get bored seeing
> the same 4 or 5 models go round and round or back and forth.
>
> Stephen Rineair
>
>
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> *Subject:* Re: Bored with steam
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>
> Stephen.................SACRILEGE!  Actually I agree about the poor
> selection of N&W non-brass steam in HO. N&W isn't exactly some little known
> and popular railroad so why no S-1a, M, M-2, K-1, Z-1 or E-2?
>
>  What we do have is very nice but to really DO the N&W those others are
> needed.
>
> Personally, I prefer brass so I'm all set with the power I need.
>
> Glad I'm not on facebook if that's the kind of rubbish they spout off! LOL
>
> Roger Huber
>
> Deer Creek Locomotive Works
>
>
>
>
>
> On Friday, February 22, 2019, 1:31:36 AM CST, NW Modeling List <
> nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
>
> There is a face book page for N&W modelers with some excellent photos and
> models posted to the site. Someone on the site posted a survey of era or
> eras that members are modeling with the 70s-80s era being most actively
> modeled. The survey got me to think about the era that I model. Having
> modeled the steam era so many years, I thought how far the variety of
> models have advanced. To say the least *VERY LITTLE* N&W steam models
> have become available to fill the void of needed models (except for brass)
> of 0-8-0’s, K’s, Z’s,Y3a’s, Y4’s, Y5’s, Y6’s, Y6a’s,M’s, E’s, and so on!
> After 35+ years and very little RTR models available, I have abandoned
> steam and also moved to the 70’s-80’s era. So much is available that I can
> model with so much more locomotive power ( I get tired of just seeing and
> running a J, Y6b, A, and a Y3 over and over). Yes I know that there are
> early diesels, but I need more than a small handful of steam. Besides, what
> about all the things that can be done with diesels, that could be done with
> steam – Lighted marker lights front and rear, lighted cab lights, stoker
> lights, ashpan lights, etc. I know some scales even have steam coming out
> of the whistle when blown. When will we see new steam models or are there
> enough to support steam anymore? Just some thoughts -just bored with steam.
>
> Stephen Rineair
>
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