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Post by triplex on Apr 15, 2024 9:54:22 GMT -5
dazed:
My "problem" with traction tires isn't with those models individually. It's that I couldn't design a Z layout around the assumption that all future manufacturers and models would use them (they don't all currently!)
And that's the reason I happened to bring up this situation on a Z forum. In N which I've researched more (and logically in other scales), there are many manufacturers because the scale is long-established. There are already many weak pullers, and I don't expect there to be anything worse in future.
tjdreams:
I don't want to HAVE to do all that testing! I would hope that enough other people (in all scales) had done such testing and documented it sufficiently that nobody had to ever again. For larger layouts with larger expected fleets, it is not practical (again, in any scale) for the modeller to accumulate the whole roster before starting to build the layout.
When I say that most modellers seem to take this "too casually", I mean that it's completely unacceptable to me to build a layout and discover AFTERWARD what each engine can pull on it. As a child, before I developed many of my other realism standards and my other interests in layout design, one of the first things I realized was that I would never assign model locomotives train lengths based on what the MODELS could pull, that it had to be proportional to what I expected the real thing to pull. I take that for granted, and not being able to do it would destroy my primary purpose in building a layout.
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Post by Tiest van Gool on Apr 15, 2024 15:16:18 GMT -5
Hi there! Let everyone's enjoyment be their own. Everyone defines enjoyment based on what they 'enjoy doing'. Let's drop the back and forth's and go back to enjoying z.
-Tiest
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