Re: (erielack) Re: Rapido

[Tim Stuy <njmidland_@_verizon.net>]

May I add that Jason has been a pleasure to work with - both on the up front
details and on the selling end.  We still have a fair number of these cars
available in our online store at www.eldcps.org as well as reservations for
the ones coming out next year.  The money we make from selling the cars goes
into the restoration of EL diner 741 - so even if they aren't always
accurate, the money we make from them goes into something that is accurate -
the real thing!

It's too bad that the Erie modernized diners were so unique.  I would love
to sell the 741 in HO scale.

Tim Stuy
ELDCPS

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Jason Shron - Rapido Trains Inc. <
jshron_@_rapidotrains.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> After two years of reading messages from this group that people have
> forwarded to me, I have just joined.  Please accept my apologies if this
> message is somehow formatted incorrectly.  I haven't used a listserv like
> this since my days as an undergraduate student in the early 1990s.
>
> I joined because I would like to reply to Randy's comments directly on the
> Rapido thread.
>
> Randy, you are welcome to front the tooling costs and we will make accurate
> cars for every paint scheme, including Erie. ;-)
>
> With passenger car tooling approaching six figures per car, the only way to
> break even in this business is to paint them in as many paint schemes as
> possible.  The key is to do the paint schemes as well as we can, and to be
> honest about it.  The car has been announced as "based on" a CN car.  It is
> 100% accurate for.... CN.  That's it.
>
> Will I write "Bogus" on the box for fantasy schemes?  You try that and try
> making a living in this business.
>
> You want 100% accurate cars for every paint scheme?  We can limit our
> entire
> line to pre-war Pullman sleepers, as those are the only lightweight cars
> with enough paint schemes to only do accurate ones and still make a profit.
> Or we can stick with PRR, PRR, PRR and PRR.
>
> Our cars are the most detailed passenger cars ever produced and represent
> several years of hard work, with countless hours spent underneath, inside
> and on top of the real things in order to get the models spot on.  That
> detail comes with a price.  It costs far more to tool a car with every
> underbody conduit than a car with 10 blobs under the frame.
>
> I am running a business and I have a family to feed and a mortgage to pay.
> Here's some inside information for you: we sold more foobie CN coaches
> painted in Erie colors than all of the accurate 10-5 sleepers (in both Erie
> and Erie-Lackawanna) combined.
>
> I hear comments like Randy's all the time, and I know I will not convince
> everyone of the economic realities of this industry.  But I invite anyone
> who thinks we should stick to only accurate paint schemes to answer the
> following questions: what would you do if you were in my position, based on
> the one statistic I just cited?  Would you stick with only accurate paint
> schemes or actually make a living?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jason
>
> --
> Jason Shron
> President / Président
> Rapido Trains Inc.
>
> True North Locomotives FP9A Locomotive: Beauty.
> La locomotive FP9A par Rapido: Sans Pareil.
> http://www.rapidotrains.com
>
>
>
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