Bored with steam

[NW Modeling List]

On 2/21/2019 10:42 PM, NW Modeling List wrote:

> When will we see new steam models or are there enough to support steam 
> anymore?
>
>     I guess that is up to the perception of the buying public and 
> manufacturers. I am sick and tired of reruns. There are a number of 
> N&W steam locos that have never been made. One reason being is that 
> those who buy think that the big three is the only way to go. They 
> have no idea of the importance the locos that came before them. If the 
> big three is all that the unknowing buying public will buy, then it 
> only goes to follow that that is what the manufacturers will make. 
> They don't want to lose money.
>     Case in point, 3rd Rail markets the K2a. A small run of models 
> that has yet to sell out completely (although less than a handful are 
> left, if that). Why? The K2/K2a pulled the same trains the J did. Yet, 
> one will buy a J over K2/K2a. Why has no one made the Class A as 
> originally built with its boiler tube pilot? Perhaps because of 
> "publicity". People will go gaga over a UP Big Boy or NYC Hudson. Why? 
> It is not because they were the best. Far from it. But, because of the 
> publicity heaped on these locos years ago.
>     Where are the Z class locos? Does the public know that the 2-6-6-2 
> was more powerful than the first 2-8-8-2's? How about the K1? The 
> first N&W Mountain type and very successful. However, the one loco 
> that has stumped me as for why it hasn't been made is the S1/S1a. This 
> engine should be a manufacturer's dream. With all of the road 
> variations, it would be like an AMT 3 in 1 model car kit! Start with 
> your basic 0-8-0 and build up from there.
>
> I am not bored with steam, I am bored with what is being offered!

Jimmy Lisle

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