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Hand crank windows worked in cars, but aren't push button electric windows a nice change? Just because "everybody's doing it" doesn't make it right!But I hear what you're saying... N trak indeed is tried and true. I guess my concern is that for the visibility that it has, wouldn't it be better to put our best foot forward, rather than a "lowest common denominator?"Just a thought...Lee
Honestly there needs to be new standards introduced. Like requirements for low profile wheels and utilize code 55 track. Force the "Lowest Common Denominator" to change. It's the only way to get the ball down the field.
Atlas will never ever admit it, but they goofed with their code 55 trackage not taking MT "pizza cutters" and "hertitage equiptment.
Hand crank windows worked in cars, but aren't push button electric windows a nice change? Just because "everybody's doing it" doesn't make it right!
If I recall correctly, it was actually a manufacturing constraint that kept them from using smaller plastic nubs to hold the rail to the ties. Could they have worked on it and found a solution? Probably. Would it have delayed the release and cost them more money than it might have been worth? Possibly. Perhaps they just figured they were making a finer-scale product, and people who wanted to use it would do what it took?At least Atlas put a product on the market that conformed to the applicable standards. I still love how Atlas gets vilified for this whole thing when MT is the company that had been producing out-of-standard wheelsets for so many years. Not much could be forseen about the people wanting to run their vintage steamers, but I feel MT should have tooled up new wheelsets when the NMRA standards were published. After all, plastic wheelsets go into nearly every single thing they produce in N scale, so I would think that would be the easiest tooling cost to amortize. MT's prices are always higher than the average for N scale rolling stock (and I'm sure we all know why), and they still have consistent hot sellers...so who would care if any given car costs 13 cents more because it had NMRA standard wheelsets?Maybe now that Joe is part of this Lion's den, he can shed some light on this?
"A large percentage of NTrak modules are so far out there that track is too small of a component to be of a concern. "Not just the modules but the trains too. N-Trak is the perfect venue for the "all-blue" boxcar train.Jason