Yorkie said...
the term "plastic" can mean 'of inferior quality; not the real thing', it is SUBJECTIVE so there's no point arguing about it. It does NOT mean literally plastic as in the substance
When the term plastic is used, are you reffering to your model railway?
37s, slammers are all inferior by todays standards of trains. If we call anything plastic it should be those i mentioned above, that being if yorkies definition of plastic is correct!
The Dictionary defines plastic as
noun
-Any of various organic compounds produced by polymerization, capable of being molded, extruded, cast into various shapes and films, or drawn into filaments used as textile fibers.
-Objects made of plastic.
-Informal. A credit card or credit cards: would accept cash or plastic in payment.
Adj
adj.
-Capable of being shaped or formed: plastic material such as clay. See synonyms at malleable.
-Relating to or dealing with shaping or modeling: the plastic art of sculpture.
-Having the qualities of sculpture; well-formed: the astonishing plastic beauty of the chorus girls (Frank Harris).
-Giving form or shape to a substance: the plastic forces that create and wear down a mountain range.
-Easily influenced; impressionable.
-Made of a plastic or plastics: a plastic garden hose.
-Physics. Capable of undergoing continuous deformation without rupture or relaxation.
-Biology. Capable of building tissue; formative.
-Marked by artificiality or superficiality; synthetic: a plastic world of fad, hype, and sensation.
-Informal. Of or obtained by means of credit cards: plastic money.
The railway cant run on sentiment. All these trains are life expired. We live in a modern world, not in the past.