This week at SHS The shipment with the new reefers and rebuilt boxcar was picked up last month. We still have a few Nickel Plate Road (all numbers) and Southern Pacific boxcars. The Nickel Plate Road are available now for shipping and more Southern Pacific boxcars will arrive on the next container later this month. We were happy to make the Southern Pacific rebuilts for the 2010 S West convention this past summer. I am sorry that we were not able to deliver these cars in time for the event. I think that was a first. Considering the problems we have been having with our builders parent company, I am happy the club was understanding. The SAL, GN boxcars as well as the Baby Ruth reefers were announced as sold out. We still have a few Southern Pacific #2, #3 and #4 available to be ordered. Both the NKP and SP can be ordered at:
http://www.showcaseline.com/Boxcars/SteelRebuilt/BoxcarsSteelRebuit_in_stock.html Letter from Kader Industries (updated) . On June 14th, we received a letter from the parent company of Sanda Kan, our builder in Hong Kong. The CEO, Ivan Ting, explained that Sanda Kan was reorganizing and that they would not be accepting new purchase orders, but all existing purchase orders would be filled. As you can imagine, this was an unexpected shock to us. A few phone calls later, we discovered that 59 other clients had also received this letter and only 20 accounts were to be kept. More bad news followed. Two weeks ago we learned that our new fishbelly hoppers would not be completed until the end of December, this includes our Christmas Car. We are now asking those who have Christmas Cars on order to contact us and let us know if they want to continue waiting, use their deposit for another item or have us refund their deposit. We are still receiving shipments from Hong Kong of completed items. Mike and I are now exploring other possibilities in finding a new builder and will keep everyone posted on our progress. We may need to adjust our business model in the near future as it is very possible we will not see any new items other than the fishbelly hoppers until late in 2011 Latest Update Robin put the finishing touches on the latest SHS Update and revised order form. We have posted the SHS Update and order form as a .pdf on our website and they can be downloaded or read online at: http://www.showcaseline.com/ We now have in stock the 1/64th scale (item #32305) Great Northern Railway Motor Freight White/Freightliner COE Tractor w/ replica 40 Refrigerated Trailer. These sold well at the convention and are quite colorful. To learn more about them check our home page at: http://www.showcaseline.com/ DCC Upgrades Bill Moitz has been busy this summer with DCC upgrades of our past products. He can install QSI revolution U sound decoders in our classic SW9 switchers. We add a 1.1 high base sell baffled speaker. This fits perfectly and it is as loud as our F units with a clarity at the low end of many O gauge models. We custom program each engine with the EMD switcher prime mover. We are using the same QSI revolution U decoders for our F units. The increased current rating of 1.5 amps really helps with longer trains and grades. This is especially true with our F7s with the extra draw of Mars and class lights. Although installing DCC sound in our SW1s is possible, we are unable to do this because of the time needed to fit the baffle for the speaker. But, we are more than happy to help with information on how we did our own SW1s. Don [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
