Hi All, My regrets for your losses at the Boston Marathon.
I was going to wait until I updated my website to announce the reefer but the cat got out of the bag so to speak this past weekend at the Schomberg Narrow Gauge Meet where I displayed the Mineral Brown Pilot model on 42" gauge trucks and track. This was a bit of fantasy thing since the Newfie(CN) RR did not do that until the 1960's and they already painted in the noodle (1960+) paint scheme. I borrowed the trucks from Andrew Baird who actually gave me the idea with all the information about the re-trucking of them. At any rate, it was fun to do and I managed to move a few to the unsuspecting Narrow Gaugers. So, I spent today finally getting the website changed around. I had to learn the new way my WebHost had done things. They like to change things around every 6 months. Much more easy after about 100 times of trying. At any rate, Ed, your points are taken lightly as I believe that pictures not words should have been put out first. --- In [email protected], "Ed" <Loizeaux@...> wrote: > > > What kit is this? > > John Armstrong > > > "S"ir John..... > > Obviously, the message pertains to the "new reefer kit" as mentioned in the > subject line. This, of course, is in contrast to the "old" reefer kit which > has never been mentioned in the first place. Well, actually the kit is of a 1939 prototype so it could in some ways be considered old. > To take it a bit farther, it has eight hatches which means you get twice as > much for your money. Of course, the hatches are not meant for blocks of ice, > but that is another story for another time. Yes, if you really want to read a fuller story, read the Dec. 1995 - Feb 1996 RMC articles about them done by Stafford Swain and Ken Goslett. The you will start to get an understanding about the difficulty of doing a generic 'CNR Steel 8 Hatch Reefer'. Impossible. > Given that maple leafs will be plastered on the sides, one might assume it is > for the CN or CP or Newfoundland RR or something else up north. But it is > cold up there and so why do they need reefers in the first place? Actually CPR and PFE did not use Maple Leafs on theirs and neither did the Newfie RR because as I said above, they were not retrucking these babies until the noodle was already around long enough. > No price, no contact information, no company name, no photos, no mention of > decals, trucks, couplers, etc. -- not much of anything descriptive of the > product itself. Is it metal as in brass import? Is it plastic as in > injection molded? Or plastic as in cast resin? Is it wood as in birch? Or > is it a mix of all things good and plentiful? Actually a price was given as was the media involved. $105. You can re-read the description on the website which is given at the bottom of this massive missive. > I love these cottage industry folks who dribble out information bit by bit. > I think it is done just to tease us and make us drool even more. Time to > hire a new copywriter. Check out the babes on Mad Men for some candidates. > (Chuckles...) Don't have time to watch TV. Busy developing and getting kits out at the cottage. The ice should melt sometime in July. > Now before friend Andy gets mad at me (a genuine paying customer), I will say > that if you were lucky enough to read all the past messages about this new > kit, you would be in the know. But, if you missed a day two of conversation, > you'd be inclined to wonder what this is all about. Looks like some reading > of the archives will bring you up to date. Yes, we like genuine paying customers. I think this will be the first kit you get from me, hah! > And....hope springs eternal....maybe new product announcements could, in the > future, include ALL the pertinent information useful to a consumer in one > swell foop. Well, that would be a swell sell wouldn't it. > Just a wish. Not a complaint. Just teasing a bit here. Making fun to make > a point. Good humor intended. Don't shoot the messenger. Good humour is also the name of an ice cream confectionary company. Not sure if it applies here. We try not to shoot people in the Great White North, we just let them freeze by not retrieving them when they fall in while ice fishing without a license. Then again...if they have great beer, we might reconsider. > Cheers....Ed Loizeaux > PS: I cannot wait to see what the "angled wafer" looks like. Those just > gotta be really cool! The only wafer I know about usually comes with cheese > and a glass of wine. Those wafers are always perfectly flat. Man, the more you whine, the cheesier your jokes get. Try beer instead. Please try out the website. It probably won't work the way I want but it looks okay on my computer. I will try it tomorrow on someone elses. If things shift around, let me know. Microsoft told me specifically that this was how things were to work out in their tutorial. www.mlwservices.ca cheers, Andy Malette www.mlwservices.ca ------------------------------------ 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/
