"Shinohara, a brand leader of track and turnouts in many scales—including S— for three decades or more, has announced it will stop production of its products, although a Japanese company has plans to take over the Japanese market at last report. The brand has been known world-wide for precision and quality for a long time. Its North American distributor for the S and Sn3 scale line, Scenery Unlimited, expects to have only a small amount of stock on hand when the firm finally closes its doors, largely because the announcement came so suddenly. “This is a very unfortunate circumstance,” says Don Heimburger, president of Scenery Unlimited, “but Shinohara is planning to retire and there appears no recourse.” Scenery Unlimited will continue to sell its remaining stock of S and Sn3 track and turnouts until they are gone."This reduces the choices of track for the scale side of S standard gauge as well as Sn3 modelers. Fortunately there are other companies with offers in the market. But none the less it is a loss for S and the model railroad market in general.
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Shinohara to cease track production
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ReplyDeleteThe plastic that they used in their Code 100 S Gauge track/turn-out was pretty brittle. You could set it up once but never re-use or re-build without breaking it, as oppose to American Models' Code 148 track.
ReplyDeleteBut yes, this is an unfortunate departure from S Gauge for those who modeled in Scaled.
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