I assure all of you that Harry will have a fabulous offering....it is coming!!
Alan
Happy Boxing day to Harry! and Happy Feast of Stephen to OGR Forum members from the UK!
This post IS train related: Harry is a sponsor, the post is directed to UK OGR members and Good King Wenceslas was a huge Model Railroad fan.(Allegedly.)
Emile
Any update yet?
-Pete
Harry should having something for us around the 20th of this month. His biggest client had a rush project for him that threw his schedule a little off.
What happened with the original GCT base?? Is it available, if so what's the price?
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-Pete
W&W, Harry got caught up with a big project for Lionel. The project is on and I will get a report from him today. He is a sole producer, so I have learned to be patient under the circumstances. His work is terrific, so it is always worth the wait with Harry.
Given all the positive comments about Harry's work I can't wait to see it and get one for myself. Please keep us posted on the developments.
Kevin
Any idea of the price that was charged for one of the 15.
Riddle me this, fellows--if Harry had designed and produced the GCT, then proceeded to produce a base and another manufacturer immediately announced he would do one cheaper, what would you guys have to say about that?
I recently completed the details on my version of the GCT base
there is a subway station beneath this unprototypical base.
has been a lot of fun to build.
Fred
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Really nice job!
-Pete
Originally Posted by BFI66:
Really nice job!
-Pete
Thank you, I bought this at a NJ lhs in Moutain Lakes. it turned out to be the impetus for my O gauge Railway. Before the GCT was set up for commuter railways, we would take the train from Albany there to New York. I was always taken with the majesty of GCT .
My in laws often met at the clock as countless others did.
I know that this has been done by others in a more prototypical manner, this version suits me just fine.
Fred
Audi/Fred, terrific job on the base, particularly since you incorporated the subway station.
Dennis, I don't understand the question. PTC posted about HH's future offering after PTC initiated and suggested the product; HH announced nothing.
Originally Posted by DennisB:
Riddle me this, fellows--if Harry had designed and produced the GCT, then proceeded to produce a base and another manufacturer immediately announced he would do one cheaper, what would you guys have to say about that?
"what would you guys have to say about that?"
As I said before, competition is typically a good thing. There are no monopolies in this country on ideas or building another mousetrap so long as no infringements are involved. Yes, there is another base out there and the pricing is well north of what the station was priced at. Perfectly OK in our free enterprise system. But complaining about a competitive product or pricing that another vendor has yet to firmly set (other than good pricing), hmm, not good in my opinion.
My promoting Harry has to strictly do with a really good guy in our hobby who has done superb work for me in the past. He is an ORG Forum sponsor and it is always nice to help out one of our own. The only benefit I get from helping Harry is to support him, that's it. Dennis, your motivation in this dialog?
I have no problem with your support of a forum sponsor. But as a manufacturer I have a problem when I see someone berating an existing product's price point by comparing it to a non existing product with an unannounced cheaper price that you consider "good pricing."
DennisB, where in anything PTC has posted in this thread did he "berate" anything as you say he did? I'm not looking for an argument, just information on your choice of words.
Just saw this thread.
So... did the Harry version ever come to fruition? Someone in this thread said it would be out last December. Then January. It's now late March.
I would definitely be in for the V2 smaller version - if it comes out this year and at a reasonable price.
In fact, I hope Harry offers a small GCT too. I like the one I have from Lionel, but honestly, it doesn't compare (especially its sides) in architectural detail to the full size version.
Not to knock the TW base, but after closely reviewing the photo posted by DennisB, the base while nice, is not commensurate with the detail level of the full Lionel GCT. Hope Harry's version for the large and small will be higher.
Peter
Originally Posted by DennisB:
I have no problem with your support of a forum sponsor. But as a manufacturer I have a problem when I see someone berating an existing product's price point by comparing it to a non existing product with an unannounced cheaper price that you consider "good pricing."
Lionel and Trainworx do not make a base for the smaller GCT.
As far as a larger base is concerned, both are forum sponsors, and if one is too high priced or one has better features than the other, well then we OGR readers want to know.
"both are forum sponsors"
George, for the record, I do not find that TW Design is listed as a Forum sponsor nor do I ever remember their participation in advertising to help sponsor this wonderful resource. I have seen them post a lot in the past about their products, but that was in only a member capacity. Big difference when someone actually puts up the bucks to help support the Forum activities. Harry Heike IS A FORUM SPONSOR, so you are correct about him.
It took me back to comments made to me several months ago about what Dennis was doing in our hobby and if you all notice his post has everything to do with promoting a non-forum sponsor's product with a website link to it rather than any real discussion about the actual subject matter of this thread.
Now he tells us all:
"But as a manufacturer I have a problem when I see someone berating"
Feel free to fill us all in Dennis, if what I was told is true, it sure makes your position clear to me (and I will understand just why).
