RMT and O-Line Reproduction GG-1's

TCA,

Why not Call RMT and asked them that same question.

Looking at your pictures. Maybe something happen to them when they was shipped to you.

Good luck, Please let us know how you make out here. John 

NYC,SUBWAY TRANSIT SIGNAL posted:

TCA,

Why not Call RMT and asked them that same question.

Looking at your pictures. Maybe something happen to them when they was shipped to you.

Good luck, Please let us know how you make out here. John 

Kinda difficult to call RMT when RMT is (more or less) out of business. 

NYC,SUBWAY TRANSIT SIGNAL posted:

TCA,

Why not Call RMT and asked them that same question.

Looking at your pictures. Maybe something happen to them when they was shipped to you.

Good luck, Please let us know how you make out here. John 

You're correct, SJC, RMT's owner, Walter Matuch, retired last month and the company's website will be closing end of this month. There's no phone number listed and email has gone unanswered. Does anyone know whether Walter will be at the upcoming York meet so that I might might meet up with him there to hopefully rectify this defect, if it indeed is a defect and was not for some reason designed that way?

(Btw, to complicate things further, while I originally ordered and pre-paid for this from RMT and Walter in Feb. 2015, it was eventually shipped to me by Walter just before Christmas 2015, but it was a GG-1 in O-Line Reproductions packaging rather than a boxed RMT GG-1 that he sent me.)

ogaugeguy posted:

NYC,SUBWAY TRANSIT SIGNAL posted:

TCA,

Why not Call RMT and asked them that same question.

Looking at your pictures. Maybe something happen to them when they was shipped to you.

Good luck, Please let us know how you make out here. John 

You're correct, SJC, RMT's owner, Walter Matuch, retired last month and the company's website will be closing end of this month. There's no phone number listed and email has gone unanswered. Does anyone know whether Walter will be at the upcoming York meet so that I might might meet up with him there to hopefully rectify this defect, if it indeed is a defect and was not for some reason designed that way?

(Btw, to complicate things further, while I originally ordered and pre-paid for this from RMT and Walter in Feb. 2015, it was eventually shipped to me by Walter just before Christmas 2015, but it was a GG-1 in O-Line Reproductions packaging rather than a boxed RMT GG-1 that he sent me.)

I highly doubt Walter will be at York in a "professional" setting. I seem to remember him having a booth several years ago. I had a  break from York from April 2011 to April 2014 and didn't attend in that time frame. It was before this break when I seem to recall an RMT booth in the back of the Orange hall, roughly between MTH and Lionel. I've been to every York since April 2014 and never saw RMT or similar since. 

FWIW, I purchased a new pair of O Line Repro streamlined passenger cars around Christmas time - mainly because my life-long hometown's name was on one of the cars. I ordered from Nassau hobby as they seemed to be the only store that had this set and I bought it immediately upon seeing the photo with my home on the one car. They came in OLR boxes and had "K-Line Electric Trains" marked on the trucks.  I've been very happy with them and they are certainly the best looking 027 passenger cars I've seen in a long time. 

TCA,

I'm still getting e-mails from them Try calling them doing the week.

Good luck. Please lets us know how you make out.

John

I looked at some drawings and the steps all look straight. Yours do look to be made on an angle purposely though.

Romiller

romiller49 posted:

I looked at some drawings and the steps all look straight. Yours do look to be made on an angle purposely though.

Romiller

Your observation is on target, romiller49. These ladders were manufactured or assembled angled and NOT bent during packaging or shipping. This is very much obvious because the length of each vertical piece between the ladder rungs (or steps) are longer on one side of each rung than it's mate on the other side of that same rung thus making it impossible to "straighten" out the ladders without breaking the rung's welds. Could all four of my ladders have each ladder rung wire segment length be the wrong length on one just side of each ladder starting at the rung at the bottom of each door and then soldered together like that skewing or angling that bottom portion of each ladder toward the same end of the locomotive while everyone else's O-Line Reproductions ladders were soldered with the correct length pieces resulting in perfectly straight ladders? Label me a skeptic but it seems highly unlikely and implausible to me and that's why I posted this thread.