I have always been a pro Digitrax user as the loconet architecture is so widely and universally helpful for computer control with other manufactures. With that said, They have had my first 2 throttles for 30 working days and still are not complete. Is this normal, do they wait till the last day to upgrade them? Whats it take to pop these open, remove a pc board and slap a new in? Service is part of business, do they get it?

Thanks for rant
Mike

I raised this question about broken body shell tabs on Rob in Texas's blog here on MRH. At his friendly insistence he wanted me to post some pictures in an effort to help me out. I didn't want to sidetrack his blog though, so I thought I'd raise the topic here in a separate post. Thanks Rob!

One of the first engines I bought when switching to HO scale was an Atlas U30c diesel. Over time (and probably due in large part to my ineptitude as a modeler then) some of the tabs that hold the body to the frame have broken. 

What Gives:

A few weeks ago I read on a forum post about the Steam Era Freight Car Group and I thought it would be a good place to get detailed info on modeling freight cars.   I submitted my app, but never got any reply.  Until yesterday when I got this from Yahoo - I guess.

With my VIA combine off to get painted I'm in a bit of a lull in modelling.  I don't want to undertake another big project as I would like to finish the combine.  I'm venturing into new territory with the crazy idea of actually finishing something.