OGR, MTH, Kalmbach, and US for Dennis B, Nblum, and everyone else (Including Rich M, and Mike W)

[brianel027]

"OH BRIAN!!!! [swg]"

Elliot, would you be talkin' to me there? Or to borrow from the movie "Taxi Driver" If you wasn't talkin' to me, who was you talkin' to?? [swg]

Actually I'm kinda flattered when any reference to 027 brings up my name too! The 027 team may not make to the model train world series, but I'm still proud of the team!!

Hey, I meant to thank you before Elliot for bringing this all to the front burner. You did some posting homework with the info from the other forum. Sure, everyone here has been pretty opinionated on this (myself included) but the jist of the info on the MTH action is important and folks should be aware of it.

Time will only tell, but I believe it has major ramifications for the entire hobby, and not necessarily good either.

[Anonymous]

How's my eyesight? Well, if the lenses of my glasses were made of glass, I'd be wearing coke bottle bottoms. And I've reached that age where I have to take the glasses off if I want to actually see small details on something. That means holding the item about 6 - 10 inches or so from my face.

However, I do run my display at 1280 x 1024 pixels on a 19 inch monitor. I sit between 2 & 3 feet from the monitor & I don't have large fonts turned on. Nobody near me believes I can read the screen, but I can. Occasionally, depending on font, I may have to get closer to make something out, but not so with the normal fonts.

The attractive thing about HO isn't so much the tight radii, but the smaller size of scenery. O54 curves are equivalent to a 27" radius HO curve, which sounds pretty generous, given the 18" standard HO curve. Using the same radi in my track plan with HO, I can get more scenes in to the space & the trains wouldn't look too bad.. And I can probably get away with narrower shelves on the walls.

On the other hand, I'd be giving up detail in the rolling stock (is that such a big deal?) and the sounds & smoke. I can live without the smoke; I've kind of gotten used to the sounds. I believe you can purchase HO locomotives with sound, but I have no idea what the sound quality & volume is like, and the prices are probably close to the prices for mid-line O gauge locos, though, again, I don't have any data, I'm just guessing.

Ya know, I'm still sticking with O, but the above really does make HO sound even more attractive to me!

Tony

[KeithL]

First Al Gore invents the internet. Now MTH is going to patent it and sue us all.[;)]

Keith

[Anonymous]

As a purely philosophical question, which is worse: Taking credit for something you didn't invent, or forcing the people who did invent something to pay you royalties for their work?

Tony