Re: [cpsig] RE: d1o and ROYAL HUDSON
- From: "W.R.Dixon" <WRDixon@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:05:29 -0800
dave hill wrote:
Royal Hudson and D10 WEll i have news to those who want a Royal Hudson well
good news I had a 3/4 hour chat with Ken at Division Point Saturday morning
. This is a company that is interested in building true works of art .
Dave you seem to have missed the point of the whole discussion - We want
an Affordable Hudson. A Division Point model will be wonderful but I do
not consider them affordable. It will be aimed at the collectors market,
not the runners.
We want a runner model from an open source so that it is available
easily to anyone.
Baring someone with a small fortune coming out of the woodwork to make
the model there are only four reasonable choices:
1) Walthers in their P2K line. Would be around $400-$500 and have QSI
sound. Pros - easily available. Cons - Not likely to happen.
2) MTH. Would be around $400-500 and have the MTH digital system in it.
Pros - reasonably available, Cons - MTH digital (vaguely DCC and motor
voltage issues) and Toy Train sound.
3) True-Line Trains. Would be around $500 to $600. Would have QSI sound.
Pros - would be reasonably available. Cons - no track record yet with
steam engines. Hopefully this will be rectified this year.
4) Rapido. Would be $500-600. Would have MRC sound. Pros - readily
available. Cons - MRC DCC. Does not yet have a track record with
locomotives or steam engines.
I would accept a model from any of the above. Sound and DCC issues can
be resolved by replacing the decoder. The motor in the MTH model might
be a problem.
If we could wean Jason off of MRC DCC and into Soundtraxx sound decoders
I would prefer a Rapido Model.
Other sources have been suggested but I would rule them out based on
price or ease of availability.
Bill Dixon
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