Micro Trains website issues

[Spades]

well...I'm going home, eat ice cream and watch sex in the city re-runs.  wake me when this is resolved.  :0 



Joe

I get the ice cream part.  Watched a bit of SITC episode, thought it suffered from to much plot.  I will show myself out.

[johnb]

this is all John Bremners fault.  lol

no way, but, I could have fixed it

[Ed Kapuscinski]

MTL now selling t shirts, and all of a sudden their website gets redirected to a ..... t shirt website ..... 

*****, I hope they don't pull a Life-Like and realize there's FAR more money to be made in basically any other industry. lol

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I get the ice cream part.  Watched a bit of SITC episode, thought it suffered from to much plot.  I will show myself out.

You mean you weren't "watching it for the plot"?

[Doug G.]

I get their website OK but all the cars are now Standard gauge and pizza cutters are back.

Doug

[peteski]

*****, I hope they don't pull a Life-Like and realize there's FAR more money to be made in basically any other industry. lol

If you mean LIFOAM styrofoam coolers, they have been making those for decades in paralell withmodel RR equipment.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-Like

The Kramer brothers sold tunnels for toy train layouts as part of their Life-Like line. The original supplier was making the tunnels from papier mache, but was unable to deliver on a consistent basis. At the same time, they learned about a German manufacturing process to mold expanded polystyrene foam into shapes that could later be painted and decorated. They imported the technology and began making tunnels out of the polystyrene foam. According to son Jay Kramer, workers at the factory discovered the insulating properties of the foam tunnels could be used to keep their lunches hot or cold. Soon after, the company began producing foam ice chest coolers under the Lifoam name in 1954.

[wazzou]

*****, I hope they don't pull a Life-Like and realize there's FAR more money to be made in basically any other industry. lol

I think they make commercial Bathroom Partitions too.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

If you mean LIFOAM styrofoam coolers, they have been making those for decades in paralell withmodel RR equipment.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-Like

The Kramer brothers sold tunnels for toy train layouts as part of their Life-Like line. The original supplier was making the tunnels from papier mache, but was unable to deliver on a consistent basis. At the same time, they learned about a German manufacturing process to mold expanded polystyrene foam into shapes that could later be painted and decorated. They imported the technology and began making tunnels out of the polystyrene foam. According to son Jay Kramer, workers at the factory discovered the insulating properties of the foam tunnels could be used to keep their lunches hot or cold. Soon after, the company began producing foam ice chest coolers under the Lifoam name in 1954.

Yep, but after a while the coolers proved to be the far better business to be in.

Nobody complains that the white of the cooler is the wrong shade.