Chris, that's an interesting idea! Off to the coding den ...

Joe -

Nope, it's not that I haven't EVER bought anything out of the Walthers catalog, but I usually don't as a general rule. It's a price thing, and unless my LHS orders via them when I place an order for something, then in that case they are doing so, not me directly, or at least that's how I see it. Honestly, I can tell you the five manufacturers I have bought items directly from (or by way of my LHS) in the last year or two - Atlas, Soundtraxx, Peco, Micro Engineering, and Athearn. Yes, I have purchased some Walthers buildings and a track crossing piece or two (see, I have purchased their products, if not directly from their catalog but rather off my LHS shelves), but that was a while ago, and only because they were the only manufacturer who made what I needed. I guess that makes it by default then? I am the kind of guy who, as previously noted, is a fiercely loyal customer to one brand, and also on the flip side of that, will fiercely boycott a certain vendor (I will not name them here), should I not only personally find their product inferior but also overly priced for what it is, when I can find a similar and hopefully (but mind you, does not always have to be) cheaper item from someone else. I have always been the kind of consumer that if a manufacturer "annoys me", I will go out of my way to purchase from his competitor. That may sound silly, but it's what I do! Case in point, those &$*@ Geico and Progressive Insurance TV commercials - Even if they could save me money, I'd never use them!

But on the other hand, it's good to know that Walthers is coming on board, that's great news for you. So I guess that will make one MRH advertiser that I will (maybe? probably?) be doing business with in the future.

RAH

And yes, before the peanut gallery chimes in,

I see.  Well, consider yourself one of the peanuts too then...

But on the other hand, it's good to know that Walthers is coming on board, that's great news for you. So I guess that will make one MRH advertiser that I will (maybe? probably?) be doing business with in the future.

Just so you know, Walthers is not coming on board, THEY ARE ON BOARD!

This is a Good time for Walters to start a sponsorship Here at MRH.

The reason I'm saying this is that from what I under stand Walters has just or is just in the middle of restructuring their whole warehouse & catalog. The main thing is they are trying to get stock up to the point that they will only list Products they actually have in stock or will have within 10-20 days of someone ordering from them.

For the past 5 years when you tried to order from them 40% to 50% of what they had listed was in the line of NIS (not in stock) and with no idea when these products would be available if ever.

You can't blame Walters for this as it was not their fault, manufacturers just didn't fill their orders and when they did it was 5-10% of the order and it never made it to their shelf stock. Most of these were back ordered and these  products went straight back out the door to whom ever had the oldest back order.

In my opinion I feel we should all try Ordering through Walters first for the majority of of our purchases. If you find them to be over priced or their not filling your orders and shipping in a timely fashion send their operations and sales dept an E-Mail and find out why they don't hold up their end of supplying you the products needed.

But I think your going to find they have made some great changes in the company and should beat most prices and shipping will prove to be very much improved and a lot faster then it has been in years.

As a sponsor we need to at least give them our business and let them show you what a great company they really are and should they fail then we can suggest that Joe send them packing.

As for me I have been buying products from them for over 40 years and have never had any complaint other then some of the products I wanted was NIS and they had no word when these products would be in stock and at the same time no body else had the products or knew when they would get them.

When they did have the products I wanted which was close to 85% of the time, I received it in 10-14 days at the longest and most of the time it was less expensive and I received many of my purchases of product within a week.

So Give them a chance as a new sponsor I think your going to like the New Walters!

Dan

instead of a print catalog is that the print catalog could not be changed regularly to reflect actual inventory.

Blue,

If you look along the bottom of the display you'll see 4 little letters - I'm pretty sure I remember that two of them indicate Forward and Reverse. At least one of them the person showing it to me (not Larry) didn't know exactly what they planned on doing with it, and the 4th spot had some useful function that escapes me at the moment.

Jeff:

That's good news if true.  If the display shows direction, I see no reason not to use the new Cab 06 for the rest of the throttles I need.

two of them indicate Forward and Reverse

I was observing the big button on the top marked "direction".

Chris