I remember that very reliable Blogspot, One to Twenth Point Me. He always had good information.
Botchman didn’t like it, so they put him out of business.
One day he was on the net, the nexd day, gone with no explanation.
Victor Smith said:Precisely, call a POS a POS and all kinds of noses will be out of joint. From the mfg to the mags who depend on the mfgs advertising dollar to the fan club who don't think there is anything wrong.
Wendell, remember whenTOC did this with Bachmann, pointing out where things needed tweeking or reworking to cover the errors of the assembly lines in the PRC, until some folks decided they didnt like what TOC was saying, no matter even if it was about valid QC issues, and that became a more or less public dispute? ............
And best of all people keep on buying, put up with the substandard quality and sometimes even believe what the mfg offers as a flimsy excuse. Mr. Barnum had it spot on! Plenty of suckers born every minute!
Steve Featherkile said:
I remember that very reliable Blogspot, [url=http://www.120pointme.blogspot.com]One to Twenth Point Me[/url]. He always had good information.Botchman didn’t like it, so they put him out of business.
Youve said this twice, Steve. What do you base this on?
Just what I’ve read here, and elsewhere, Bob. Do you have different, credible evidence? You are in the loop, not I.
Nope, I have nothing at all besides wild speculation from the usual gang. Since he was posting less and less for almost nine months before he shut the site, I assume that he just closed it down. Your “Botchman didn’t like it, so they put him out of business.” sounded like you had some credible evidence.
Nicholas Savatgy said:You surely can if you model Great Northern, SP&S, Northern and Southern Pacific and the Old Mill Lumber Co. Inc of Oregon.
Any news on the replacement wheels ? Its been over a year and I still cant get my Aristocraft Connie loco to work well. Very sad indeed. It might be time to sell it and buy another Great USATs loco. Cant have to many GG-1s :) Nick
tac, ig & The Cascade Summit Boys
As for reliable running, well, the LGB Mogul isn’t the only one they made. I lined up in the snow in Berlin back at Christmas 1982 to collect my green SEG Mallet - 2085D. I was running it yesterday while I was futzing around in the backyard. One new motor and a couple of sets of the old-style spring-loaded brushes is all that’s been needed in almost 29 years of sheer pleasure.
tac, ig & The Kaiserdamm Hobbystore Boys
tac said:Nicholas Savatgy said:You surely can if you model Great Northern, SP&S, Northern and Southern Pacific and the Old Mill Lumber Co. Inc of Oregon.
Any news on the replacement wheels ? Its been over a year and I still cant get my Aristocraft Connie loco to work well. Very sad indeed. It might be time to sell it and buy another Great USATs loco. Cant have to many GG-1s :) Nicktac, ig & The Cascade Summit Boys
Yeah, we don’t need no stinking GG-1’s
When I was a kid, looking at the annual Lionel catalog, I wondered just what that GG-1 thing was. I finally decided that it was Lionel’s fantasy engine. The GN, NP, SP&S and the Burlington didn’t use electrics, and the Little Joes of the MILW looked nothing like a GG-1. My thought was that if Lionel wanted to make a model of an electric locomotive, they should have used a Little Joe.
Yes, I know now that the GN used electrics on Steven’s Pass, but not after 1956. I was 8 when the electrification of Steven’s Pass was shut down, and my world did not extend much beyond my neighborhood, my school and Appleyard. I really don’t remember seeing any of GN’s electrics. Mostly diseasals, with a few Mikes coming over from Spokane.
Edit: my finger is finally out of the splint, and I am having to relearn how to type. The finger ain’t what it usta-was, and I have to train my brain to accept what it is, now.
Bob McCown said:Nope, just the usual chattering class, although one on another site always seemed to have the correct gouge. Given "B"s treatment of TOC, I would not be surprised, though.
Nope, I have nothing at all besides wild speculation from the usual gang. Since he was posting less and less for almost nine months before he shut the site, I assume that he just closed it down. Your "Botchman didn't like it, so they put him out of business." sounded like you had some credible evidence.
Bachmann was really trying to find the owner of 1 to 20 point me… and accused TOC several times… They were asking everyone if they knew who he was.
Greg
Greg Elmassian said:
Bachmann was really trying to find the owner of 1 to 20 point me... and accused TOC several times... They were asking everyone if they knew who he was.Greg
That’s interesting. If it was TOC, I hardly believe they would have had any success forcing him to shut down. Any such attempt would probably result in twice the effort to keep it going
If Bachmann had anything to do with the site closing, it would probably have been in the way of a buyout, not a “force” out.
Many big companies work that way. The easiest way to get rid of a pain, is to throw some money it’s way
Ralph
No problems to report with my connie. Runs like a champ, no problem with derailments on my less than perfect trackwork at all.
http://youtu.be/ygI2u8lZbCY Im thinking of adding a new cab to mine and maybe making it something different since it does work well.
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/nicholas_savatgy/_forumfiles/cab4.JPG)
Sorry, Nick, not my operating experience.
Cute doll.
Action figure…
Nicholas Savatgy said:
(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/nicholas_savatgy/_forumfiles/cab4.JPG)
Must…not…make…Koolaid…joke…must… NOT!!!..
(http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/vsmith/propaganda_koolaid.jpg)
OH What the hell…
I find it rather odd that the ‘recent’ Aristo connie has so far failed to make its presence felt over here in Yoorup…
Take it from, there are some SERIOUS US-style layouts in THIS country, let alone mainland Yoorup. I know of one up in Scotland with over 6000 feet of track - ALL Aristo - as are most of the more than two hundred locos.
One dealer down here in rural East Anglia boasted than one of his ‘better’ customers [he was obviously NOT looking in my direction] has a layout that takes one of his LGB/Aster Mikes fifteen minutes to go from one end to the other. I pointed out two things -
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the White Pass currently has only one such loco - #73 - in service, and
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MY LGB/Aster mike had the same problem on my 80 feet of track, going just as slowly just before it ground to a halt the last time…
For some reason I never got my usual Christmas card since then.
tac, ig & The Plain Speakin’ Boys
Bob McCown said:I can tell you, for a fact, Botch was all over trying to find him. They accused me of being "him", had to convince them A) I wouldn't know how to set up and run a blog, and B) I didn't have time. Then they wanted ME to find him! I would suspect, based upon what I experienced, the chances they shut him down are higher than they didn't.
Nope, I have nothing at all besides wild speculation from the usual gang. Since he was posting less and less for almost nine months before he shut the site, I assume that he just closed it down. Your "Botchman didn't like it, so they put him out of business." sounded like you had some credible evidence.
TOC
They asked me several times, and pointedly if it was TOC too…
Greg Elmassian said:Its a good thing that we've been able to keep his secret all this time.
They asked me several times, and pointedly if it was TOC too...
Did I say that out loud?