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Just some forum stats, promoting our community, rambling on...

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TwinStar:
Mr. Fugate of Model Railroad Hobbyist seems to be RailPro 'friendly'. Perhaps that's our avenue.

Morebassman:
I have ben a RP user since 2016. I don't post very much but I check this site out everyday to see if anything has come up. It has served me well but I am not very good in electronics like some of you are so I can't contribute in that manner... but you all have helped me in all of the threads posted in this matter.
I check it out often
 The post at the top of this page list the people who have signed in to RPUG and make no post.
Some post very little..
And some post quite often... Guess who!!

 My guess is that those people that are menbers have not purchased.
How could you own this system without help from poeple in this forum.
Ring doesn't want to have mass advertisement. Why? Can't understand why he wouldn't want to grow his business. But that is another discussion...
Anyway....
In my opinion ... Anyone who has railpro has reseached and most likely found this site. The others are seekers.. not yet committed.
Don't get discourged because some of us don't post. We READ... WE GLEAN

nodcc4me:
I have just been thinking about another aspect of the limited RP product awareness. Even the manufacturers have never heard of it. I have talked to major locomotive manufacturers tech support people and their representatives at train shows and have never had even one tell me they had heard of RP. I understand that the money is in the market, and right now, the market is DCC. If even one manufacturer started equipping their engines with RP like they do with DCC, the word would get out. Some guys don't relish the idea of taking apart a locomotive, milling weights and rewiring the thing just to be able to run it. The LM circuit boards could be factory installed without the case, which would free up some space for a speaker, similar to current DCC equipped locomotives. It wouldn't take much, if any modification for them to supply RP instead of DCC. Yes, it would probably be a bit of a gamble for them, but if it took off, they would do very well with it, and so would Ring Engineering. I wonder if Tim has approached any of them?

TwinStar:

--- Quote from: nodcc4me on July 17, 2017, 01:41:48 PM ---I have just been thinking about another aspect of the limited RP product awareness. Even the manufacturers have never heard of it. I have talked to major locomotive manufacturers tech support people and their representatives at train shows and have never had even one tell me they had heard of RP. I understand that the money is in the market, and right now, the market is DCC. If even one manufacturer started equipping their engines with RP like they do with DCC, the word would get out. Some guys don't relish the idea of taking apart a locomotive, milling weights and rewiring the thing just to be able to run it. The LM circuit boards could be factory installed without the case, which would free up some space for a speaker, similar to current DCC equipped locomotives. It wouldn't take much, if any modification for them to supply RP instead of DCC. Yes, it would probably be a bit of a gamble for them, but if it took off, they would do very well with it, and so would Ring Engineering. I wonder if Tim has approached any of them?

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I had this very conversation with Shane of Scale Trains last year at the Oklahoma City Train Show. I wanted assurance that there would be 'DCC Ready' locomotives that we could convert to RP without the cost of buying a DCC Sound loco and throwing away the electronics. He knew RailPro, liked it, and maybe even supported it (he wouldn't commit) but the market is for DCC. I can't for the life of me understand Tim's marketing strategy.

darryl.trains:
I relunctly refrained from saying this before but then?  I would like to show others that might like to know something about using RP and here is the sticky part, if the manufacture has no interest in promoting the product such as to setting up a display at shows or having brochures to hand out, why should I or anyone else bother trying to promote the product for a business? I go to many train shows and especially in the past, handed out flyers for other shows or picked some information that was on a table when checking in, that was of interest. Always a table full of handouts.   Oh well this is only my thoughts so I best find my asbestos suit for incoming flack !  The old fardt in HOTArid-Zona

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