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Turnout Confusion #4,#5,#6,#8
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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by Surfstud31</i> <br /><br />.... I would love to use Walthers (track) but the delays I am hearing about are a nightmare and I simply do not want to mix different kinds of track. [/quote] <br /> <br />You bring up a good point about mixing different brands. Not only do they look different, the ties may be different thickness which may require shimming even though the rails are the same height. <br /> <br /> Better get used to delays in this hobby. Recently I waited a year to get HOn30 stub turnout kits made by B-K Enterprises, but that's not your main stream model railroading anyway. <br /> Other than major manufacturers like Atlas, Bachmann, Kato and Life-Like, most manufacturers are small or cottage business that only do short runs of product at a time. Often they fold up and disappear and/or are bought up by someone else. [url="http://www.diamond-scale.com/about_us.htm"]Diamond Scale[/url] is a good example of that. They disappeared for a few years when they relocated under new management. <br />What is worse is when something is discontinued or retired. Walthers is notorious for retiring models. They're not an actual manufacture but rather contract with manufacturers to produce products with the Walthers brand. Therefore they don't have control of production schedules. <br /> <br /> <br />
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