[modeleng] Re: [modeleng] 3½ versus 5
- From: "Jem Harrison" <Jem.Harrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:16:55 +0100
Harry,
I like the strong feelings! Don't most model engineering clubs have
'Ayotollahs'!
Best wishes,
Jem
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harry Wade" <hww@xxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 5:53 PM
Subject: [modeleng] 3½ versus 5
> At 08:38 AM 9/26/05 -0700, you wrote:
>>around here in Middle Tennessee, the only available track is in 7-1/2"ga
>>Al
>
> Al,
> There is a reason for that. 40 years ago there were a number of
> 3-1/2"ga and a couple of 4.75"ga locos either built or under construction
> in our area. My first was to be a 3.5"ga British loco. When what few
> live
> steamers there were around here comgealed into a club (the MSLS) there was
> only one local 7.5"ga loco under construction (IIRC) and the builder of
> that one was elected president. He promptly began to progagandize
> (bludgeon is a better word) the rest of us with a 7.5"ga-ONLY agenda which
> resulted in what we have today. I'd have a few choice words for him
> today,
> but back then I was the "kid" and didn't have much of a say.
> I don't know that anyone could complain about how it turned out, but
> until he died the policy was 7.5"ga only, and no furrin' locomotives, and
> that pretty much set the tone for policy today. Smaller gauge track
> facilities have been proposed, a la the Pennsy Live Steamers and others,
> and practically every society track in England, but that ain't natural
> apparently and has been roundly rejected by the "powers that be." (Can
> you
> suspect I have strong feelings on this? :-)
> I think the best advice so far is from IP, . . . . "you have received
> all sorts of well intentioned advice but at the end of the day it is
> really
> only you who can decide." Among all the other parameters, choose what
> makes you happy.
>
>
> Regards,
> Harry Wade
> Nashville Tennessee
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