Because of the pent up demand, I suspect track supply is going to be spotty as dealers get in and sell out a few times. Then of course some folks will over buy just to have it on hand, which will make it worse. But I'm sure Atlas will crank it out as fast as they can.
Paul
Several hobby item manufacturers in China are now looking into production moving to Vietnam, India, or other "cheap labor" areas since the standard of living in China has been improving.
As far as Atlas track is concerned, there seems to really be a glut of it at a hobby shop in Tucson, Arizona, so I don't know why other locations don't have an adequate supply on hand.
I was just reading an article on line this past week that GE has seen the light and is moving production of dishwasher back to the US.
Wayne
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"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." -- Henry Ford
I see some shops shows C100 in stock but,still a lot of items is listed as out of stock..
Maybe,just maybe some day that slow boat from China with the track will make it to the West coast.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
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sticks and stones may break my bones, but beating a dead horse excites me.
Forget the expensive order-now and wait until oblivion to get your pre-ordered loco, they will get you on ONE vital accessory! The TRACK! THEN charge a fortune for it!
As fast as a container comes in from China, it is gone.
Now if somneone was smart,they'd start manufacturing it here, instead of there.
China has a hold over us and renders us powerless if they don't "give us the goods"..regardless of "menial thing" {to others hwo Aren't MRRers} like a piece of sectional track or a giant thing like...like washing machines.
Not trying to get politcal here, but I can feel it a'comin' in this thread....
Hmm...how else can they make our lives miserable??? take away our power systems...DC and DCC alike?
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
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Ok - I know we have probably beat this dead horse ad nauseum and I am not looking to reignite any fire----but, I saw this note on the NHS web site - Thank you for visiting! Due to the outages of Atlas, Shinohara and various other manufactures We will be closing our online store until May. Orders already in the system will be filled.Questions can be sent to mail@nhshobbies.com
So, I started looking at walthers and only 64 of the 240 items listed under track and accessories for Atlas show any availabilty - same with Shinohara. Just found it interesting realizing that we have talked about this before.
There's never time to do it right, but always time to do it over.....