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[CBQ] Re: Silver Streak Zephyr

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Subject: [CBQ] Re: Silver Streak Zephyr
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Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 01:27:07 -0000
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This made my day, week, month and year.  If your interested in others buy it 
and they may expand their offerings to other zephyrs!!

Brian Durham

--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, jameskoretsky@... wrote:
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> Brian and Charlie,
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> There's a very big gap here though. In N Scale, for $250 you get a nominal 10 
> car passenger train, with a couple of two or four car addon sets for $50/$100 
> per set to make up the prototypical length train. This is truly affordable.
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> My concern is that in HO Scale the cost is going to be at least twice that, 
> with the every increasing costs, the price could be tripple or more in the 
> cost. That's $750 for a plastic set, which is reasonable on price at $75 per 
> car, the issue is, most people don't have that much to spend at one time. 
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> Walthers has the right idea, release a car per month and folks can pick them 
> up as they are released, but an entire trainset, would be too much for a lot 
> of people to do at one time.
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> I would have loved a Rapido Canadian (two actually as when I'm modeling I 
> need to mix and match cars) but I couldn't afford to buy one set at one go, 
> let alone two sets. 
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> I would have preferred that Rapido (and Kato should they decide that they're 
> going to do HO Scale Passenger Train Sets) released the Locomotives as the 
> first item in a "box set" that can hold the entire train. From there, they 
> released 1 or 2 cars per month that come in plain packaging and can be 
> removed from the plain packaging, and placed in the box set that the 
> locomotives came in. This makes it much more affordable for the customer to 
> purchase.
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> If I could get them to do a train, I'd like to vote for a DZ or TCZ, with 
> separate number / name boards so that the cars can be used for other things 
> post this service.
> 
> James
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Ehni" <behni@...>
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2012 11:54:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [CBQ] Silver Streak Zephyr
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> FWIW, I think either the 3rd set of the TCZ, or the second set of the DZ 
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> Thanks! 
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> Brian P. Ehni 
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> From: Charlie Vlk < cvlk@... > 
> Reply-To: < CBQ@yahoogroups.com > 
> Date: Wednesday, August 8, 2012 10:44 AM 
> To: < CBQ@yahoogroups.com > 
> Subject: RE: [CBQ] Silver Streak Zephyr 
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> Brian- 
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> No, the marketplace (consumers) have decided that Kato USA HO products 
> donâ??t sell.   They have done similar  items in HO that sell well in N 
> and observed from the sales figures that their market is not in HO.  They 
> continue to make HO items but sales are a fraction of what they are in N on a 
> item to item basis. 
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> Not every company should be in every market.   Kato, for example, IMHO, 
> should not be in the freight car market because they do not have a production 
> profile / mentality to support numerous releases of many roadnames with a 
> range of roadnumbers.   Their production model is an item release once 
> every few years with perhaps 2 roadnumbers for 6 roadnames.   It is their 
> â??wayâ?? and their company.   If they had more frequent production they 
> would have gotten around to your pre-72 ATSF SD45sâ?¦..it wasnâ??t because 
> the Kato USA researchers/staff were unaware of the attractiveness of that 
> (and the other 100 that those units could be painted) scheme. 
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> It would be interesting if they decided to tool up the Silver Streak Zephyr 
> as a set (like Fox Valley did with the Hiawatha) and see what the market 
> response would be.   I fear that more people would find reasons not to buy 
> it then would step up to the plate to support it. 
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> Charlie Vlk 
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> From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [ mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of Brian 
> Ehni 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 9:27 AM 
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com 
> Subject: Re: [CBQ] Silver Streak Zephyr 
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> So, based on the HO scale product mix Kato produced and sold, they've decided 
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> I believe Kato has been ill-served by some of their own choices. For example, 
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> Thanks! 
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> Brian P. Ehni 
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> From: Charlie Vlk < cvlk@... > 
> Reply-To: < CBQ@yahoogroups.com > 
> Date: Tuesday, August 7, 2012 9:03 AM 
> To: < CBQ@yahoogroups.com > 
> Subject: RE: [CBQ] Silver Streak Zephyr 
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> Brian- 
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> Having worked for Kato and seen the situation from all sides during my Model 
> Railroad career (manufacturer, wholesale distributor, retail shop, and 
> consumer) I can tell you it isnâ??t a lack of caring that drives their 
> product mix. 
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> Katoâ??s HO sales in North America have been a small fraction of what they 
> sell in N for the last twenty yearsâ?¦..especially after the â??Kaizanedâ?? 
> RS2 and SD40-2 mechanism redesign  disasters.   I would say that even 
> Model Power outsells Kato, at least at the shops I am familiar with.   The 
> market response to the HO SD80MAC, Business Car, Bilevel Commuter Coaches, 
> F40PH, and SD40/SD38 has not encouraged them to step up their HO 
> production.   N Scalers have voted with their money and won the race. 
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> Charlie Vlk 
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> Brian P. Ehni 
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