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Post by david1 on May 6, 2024 20:15:42 GMT
If your looking for some RMT cars Pats trains has them in stock. Most likely past releases but he does have ready to ship. Mostly tank cars, box cars, wood chip cars, ore cars, etc. They seem to have diecast trucks.
Dave
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Post by Joe Saggese on May 6, 2024 21:26:51 GMT
Thank you for that. I shall have to take a look!!!!!
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Post by JDaddy on May 9, 2024 15:34:21 GMT
Just a note guys; the cars are awaiting new trucks, there is a delay on these until after August.
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Post by JDaddy on May 9, 2024 17:37:50 GMT
The supplier couldn't support the date. Pat understands he is under the gun and is asking for customers patience. I applaud Pat for doing the right thing.
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Post by david1 on May 9, 2024 17:48:36 GMT
Thanks guys for the update,
Dave
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Post by rockymountaineer on May 9, 2024 18:32:46 GMT
The supplier couldn't support the date. Pat understands he is under the gun and is asking for customers patience. I applaud Pat for doing the right thing. Patience is quite the understatement. And RMT’s dates are a constantly moving target. So I’ll believe it, when I see it. I give dealers like Pat’s Trains and Henning’s Trains lots of fortitude for sticking with RMT. Several dealers called it quits with RMT. And I completely understand their frustration.
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Post by mrmeep on May 12, 2024 14:52:39 GMT
The actions of RMT, MTH, Lionel and other manufacturers are some of the big reasons why this hobby is on the rocks. Prices soaring, the products tend to be shoddy, shipping dates are vaporware and product warranties and support are non-existent.
When one spends over-inflated prices for (let's admit it) toys, one should expect at least a miniscule amount of customer support and product quality.
But instead, one ends up with blister-pack-quality items for jewelry store prices. And one gets used-car-dealer customer support for the products after paying limousine-level prices.
Until or unless these trends change, the hobby will indeed end up going the way of to Do Do Bird. Today's participants are not the hobbyists of old who are content to build things from scratch or purchase locomotives and rolling stock that need assembly as kits or semi-kits. They demand ready-to-run museum-grade detailed properly operating miniatures of the real things. And they want their products that they purchased to operate correctly and reliably upon delivery. And they want delivery on the dates promised. Not some vague moveable "guess-timation" that seems to be come by through throwing a dart at a board or gazing into a crystal ball.
The model railroad manufacturers are following their prototype railroad owners EXACTLY by running their companies the SAME WAY. Thinking only about profits and not the customers.
And the REAL railroads are failing the EXACT SAME WAY.
Art truly imitates life.
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Post by seayakbill on May 16, 2024 11:45:27 GMT
Menards probably has the most common sense distribution system. Manufacture and receive first, then advertise and sell / ship.
Bill
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