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Is Tractronics still in business?

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Is Tractronics still in business?
Posted by dknelson on Friday, May 2, 2014 11:47 AM

I ask because their website has not been updated since 2012.  They offer, or offered, interesting solutions to a variety of wiring issues.  The company is run by a Marc Haas and all checks are to be made payable to him which is why I am a bit leary about a website that has been static for some time.

Dave Nelson

 

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Posted by maxman on Friday, May 2, 2014 12:32 PM

There is a phone number listed.  You might call them.

http://home.roadrunner.com/~jimngage/TRACTRONICS/PRODUCTS/price_1.htm#Phone

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Posted by gandydancer19 on Friday, May 2, 2014 12:34 PM

Check the web site for contact information and send out an email and get a reply back before ordering.  If there is a phone number listed, call the number.  Sometimes a garage manufacturer type is only interested in a limited number of products and isn't expanding all the time.

Elmer.

The above is my opinion, from an active and experienced Model Railroader in N scale and HO since 1961.

(Modeling Freelance, Eastern US, HO scale, in 1962, with NCE DCC for locomotive control and a stand alone LocoNet for block detection and signals.) http://waynes-trains.com/ at home, and N scale at the Club.

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Posted by cacole on Friday, May 2, 2014 1:06 PM

Marc Haas is not the name of the person who used to be in charge of TracTronics when we purchased their Cooler Crawler DC walk-around throttle system for use on our large HO scale layout in 1996, before we switched to DCC-only control in 2011.  Back then the person who was selling TracTronics products was Richard F. Weyand, and their address was TracTronics, 1212 South Naper Boulevard, Naperville, Illinois; but the company has been in business for quite some time.

We have no experience with recent products, but the Cooler Crawler and other circuit boards produced by them back in the mid-1990's were very durable and reliable.

 

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