I am seeing a price of $80.00 for an nscale locmotive this must be plastic
and made in the thousands. making a tiny run 150 -200 pieces would be cost
prohibitive in plastic and very expensive in brass . Reading the guide to
PFM production in their first 25 years Canadian locomotive typically sold
100to 500 copies popular railroads NYC Pennsylvania ATSF sold up to 1000
pieces so sevicing Canada is a little niche market . Jaan has a very large
population with a very technical oriented population. Ever see a Japanesse
photo shoot the are practially burried in exotic cameras but most of them
do not own a car . When you go to your neighbourhood Honda?toyota dealer
you must present your parking pass from the Tokoyo police department or
there will be no disscussion about buying a car period. So off the the
stereo store , camera store , or hobby shop and consume . A japanesse
modeler will have a tiny layout and a wall covered with locomotive models so
having 50 engines not uncommon for thousands and thousands of modelers and
you ride the train sometimes dailly so the interest is there .We are slaves
to that big pile of iron and rubber in the driveway so not much extra money
. regards DAVID HILL
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [cpsig] Canadian Pacific Canadian Passenger Train Blueprints
There are alot of silly theories abounding about the ability to make steam
locomotives that run well and look good in China.
Micro-Ace, for example, makes just about all the JNR and significant private
road types in N Scale (over 21 different locomotives, all with major tender
and appliance variatioons for each type, so there are probably over 50
different ones). These retail in Japan for under $80 US.
It seems to me the variables are the production quantities (probably much
higher in Japan give our importers tendency to request reservations and
build to proven sales and the size of the Japanese market...not segmented by
roadname like ours) and the importer's approach to soliciting proposals for
each project.
But even considering the above there should be no reason we cannot get more
steam out of China.
Charlie Vlk
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