--- On Thu, 5/22/08, Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> wrote:
From: Anthony Thompson <thompson@...>
They might indeed change, if the NMRA has the guts
to modify the standards as you describe, and then PULL any compliance certificates--with appropriate publicity--for turnouts which no longer comply. Among other things, this might send a signal that compliance DOES matter. Whether the average modeler cares about things like certificates depends in part on what kind of publicity there is. This is something the NMRA itself CAN control.
The standards are being modified and they no longer have to go to the entire membership for approval (a very old fashioned concept) that will make implementing changes easier. If you have been reading Scale Rails you may have noticed that Di has written about this with turnouts and recent product reviews have regularly (almost always) rejected a compliance warrant for not meeting standards.
