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NEWS AND UPDATES
06/17/19
145,472 Items Available To Order Today In The World's
Largest Model Railroad Product Database™
06/15/19
Fedex Changes
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 30, 2019 — FedEx
Corp. (NYSE: FDX) is announcing a transformation that
builds upon the largest global commerce transportation
network in the world to further serve the fast-growing
e-commerce market. FedEx Ground delivers seven days per
week during the holiday peak season, and beginning in
January 2020, this service will continue year-round for
the majority of the U.S. population. FedEx Ground
also will increase standard operations and increasing
large package capabilities.
Peco Changes
About 10 years ago I had a long
conversion with Walthers about changing the Walthers
product number for all Peco product to the actual part
number Peco assigned to each item so that customers and
dealers could easily identify the products they needed.
Well it seems that this process finally after all this
time, is occurring.
The database has been updated along with the images. In
some cases the old Walthers number and the new actual
product number are still listed within the database. But
as of this update, the database and images are correct
based on the latest information Walthers has supplied to
us.
Pre Order Deadlines
June 24: Rapido Preorders
July 31: Walthers Preorders
06/8/19
Shipping Changes
The USPS postages will have a postal rate
increase effective 06/23/19 and Fedex has announced that
they will start delivering 7 days a week. No
announcement as to when this will start and I am not
sure how this will effect deliveries to BRH since we
receive Fedex Freight deliveries during the weekdays on
only receive Saturday deliveries in December. Just an
FYI for you all.
New Wholesaler
I have finalized the addition of our
first new wholesaler since we stopped receiving products
from Horizon Hobby in 2013. The new wholesaler is Emery
Distributing in Easton, PA. But adding this wholesaler
we are adding a lot of new products to the overall
database and expanding the availability of other
products.
By doing this we now have the largest O scale product
database in the world! Also, in the past when our main
wholesaler was out of the product you wanted their was
no other source for us. Now that has changed. In some
cases the prices are higher and in some cases they are
lower. This is due to the cost of the product we have
negotiated with each wholesaler.
You will be able to see the warehouse location of the
product on the product search screens. Currently I am
ordering from the new wholesaler at least once a week
until volume increases.
So, we now have warehouses in Milwaukee, WI:
Easton, PA: Charlotte, PA: Lake Charles, LA: Greenville,
SC: and direct from manufacturers around the USA.
So, as of this email BRH now has the largest model
railroad product database in the world! And we have yet
another wholesaler coming to the database very soon!
Important Miniature World of Trains
Update™
The
Miniature World of Trains™
was notified last week
that the pending property sale is now not going to
happen! That is good news but has now delayed the
opening of any display so the Christmas Model Train
Display™
may not be able to open this Christmas. But I am working
on that as of this email.
So, with the Congaree location back in play, I am trying
to finalize the lease with a new addition to protect
MWOT™
from losing any money if the owner was to sell. I am
awaiting the new lease with this provision added.
Also, since this location is back and is the best option
for MWOT™,
I have also begun the process to purchase the building
and land with my bank. This way MWOT™
will own the property from the outset.
Also, as a back up plan there are three lease locations
available near BRH that I am looking into in a large
shopping center. Two spaces of over 9,000sf are
available as well as another 4,000sf location that would
allow the opening of the Christmas Model Train Display™
for 2019.
I should have more information for a 2019 opening within
the next two weeks!
Also, MWOT™
was listed as the lead item in the July Model Railroader
Magazine in the News and Products Section.
Despite the delay MWOT™
is still moving forward!
So, please
help me create this project by either investing,
donating or volunteering!
The current version still needs $800,000 to create the a
new version, less for a new Christmas Model Train
Display™
for just the
2019 holiday season, about $30,000 at this point to
potentially generate an estimated $75,000 to $100,000+
gross revenue in just six weeks!
So please go to the MWOT™
website to
help out and move the project forward!
So, again,
you
can invest a minimum of $100 or donate what ever you
would like to the
Miniature World Of Trains™
and become part owner as an
investor of what will
be "the next big attraction" and a great addition to the
model railroading hobby!
You could share in a projected $18M net profit in 7
years!
MORE INFO ON THE ATTRACTION OR HOW TO INVEST
May Sales
Again
sales are strong with May Sales up 63.9% over 2018 and
the best May since 2013!
New customers for the last 30 days up 18% and up 11%
year to year. Returning customers up 6% over the last 30
days and up 104% year to year.
So far for June 2019, sales are even compared to 2018.
Again the trend is good!
Pre Order Deadlines
June 24: Rapido Preorders
July 31: Walthers Preorders
Customer Favorite N Scale GE ES44AC
Diesels Arrive from Kato
The Kato GE ES44AC is a must-have for
modern era modelers. Although decorated for owner BNSF,
these modern diesels run from coast to coast on other
railroads too, so they have wide appeal. The loco is
based on units built beginning in 2003 and features the
popular, smooth-running mechanism modelers love! It can
be converted to DCC operation by changing out the
lighting board with a DCC decoder. Standard DC units are
in stock now, and
you can get them with factory-installed
DCC or LokSound/DCC when
they're delivered over the next few weeks
- just place your order
now to avoid missing out!
TO ORDER
Rapido Trains Announces New HO and N
Products - Order Now!
You will
love the detailed HO and N Scale models
from Rapido Trains and
the company has announced several new products you can
order from BRH! New HO Scale models include later Phase
2 and 3 body styles on the extremely popular EMD F40PH,
newly tooled Amtrak Horizon Fleet passenger cars (a
great match for the F40PH),
Bombardier Comet Commuter Cars, a USRA 40'
Double-Sheathed Wood Boxcar and the Rio Grande Ski Train
set and cars.
New N Scale tooling includes the Amtrak
Horizon Fleet passenger cars
and Bombardier Comet Commuter Cars. We're taking
preorders for these exciting new models, so act now!
TO ORDER
05/20/19
Important Miniature World of Trains
Update™!
The
Miniature World of Trains Update™
has been a project I have
been working on for nine and a half years now and
it is a wonderful, profit making concept to help save
the future of model railroading. Not only is it about
model trains, it is about S.T.E.A.M. (Science,
Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) and much more!
About three weeks ago
I announced the negotiations for the lease where to a
point I announced the location next to the regional
Haywood Mall. However, this past Tuesday I was informed
that the owner of the building I have been negotiating
with has a full price offer to sale the building. This
effectively stopped MWOT™
hope and progress for a 2019 holiday opening!
While the project has stopped forward momentum again,
according to the realtor, the realtor needs a tenant so
our proposal with the current owner has been given to
the new owner who does not have a tenant lined up for
that location as of this update. Hopefully I will know
something this week.
Since this situation has occurred, I have been
exploring other location options, both permanent and
temporary. The temporary location will be for the
Christmas Model Train Display™
and a retail
store for the 2019 Holiday Season somewhere in
Greenville, SC.
For those of you that have followed the project since
2009 you know that finding suitable locations has been
in issue. In 2012 the old Sam's Club lease was
negotiated and then that building and land was sold
right out from under MWOT™,
the downtown BETA test location lease ended and the city
virtually blocked the move to another location and
construction began just outside the building, plus the
lack of parking in the area ended that location in 2015.
The competition for locations is fierce here in
Greenville, SC and the need for no less then 9,000sf to
build the CMTD™
and a new
MWOT™
plus have
retail and training / DIY areas is hard to find in a
good location with easy access and parking.
However I have already found a potential back up
location if the new owner of the Congaree Rd location
will not work with me.
The problem here is timing at this point.
If something can not be arranged by no later than June
15th, opening of the CMTD™
will not
occur as there will not be enough time to get it created
and opened by the 2019 holiday season.
However, the ultimate dream is to buy land and build but
there is still not enough funding to create this
wonderful project! So leasing is the only option
currently.
So, please help me create this project by either
investing, donating or volunteering!
The current version still needs $800,000 to create the a
new version, less for a new Christmas Model Train
Display™
for just the
2019 holiday season, about $30,000 at this point to
potentially generate an estimated $75,000 to $100,000+
gross revenue in just six weeks!
So please go to the MWOT™
website to
help out and move the project forward!
So, again,
you
can invest a minimum of $100 or donate what ever you
would like to the
Miniature World Of Trains™
and become part owner as an
investor of what will
be "the next big attraction" and a great addition to the
model railroading hobby!
You could share in a projected $18M net profit in 7
years!
MORE INFO ON THE ATTRACTION OR HOW TO INVEST
BRH May Sales To Date!
At BRH
May and June are typically slow months. However, so far
May sales are up 100% over May 2018 with about 11 days
to go! So I have been very busy at the store.
New Wholesaler Added
I have added another 25,000 items to the database to
expand our product offerings.
For the last 15 years our main wholesaler has been
Walthers and for about 3 years we used Horizon Hobbies (Athearn)
until their customer service issues become to unbearable
and we dropped them in 2013!
Now we have added Emery Distributing in Easton,
Pennsylvania so that we can offer more options and
product for you all to shop for at one location. You
will see some duplicate items listed with potentially
different pricing. The reason for this is that there
will be two warehouses offering the same item(s) at
different price point. The lower price may be at
Walthers (Milwaukee Warehouse) but is sold out and Emery
(Easton Warehouse) my be available at a little higher
price or vice versa. So if you need something now, order
it as a back order at the lower price or get it shipped
to you in a few days at a little bit higher price. The
choice is yours.
Also, with this new addition, we are now offering model
kits and other hobby items that we have not offered
online since 2013. These items will not be available at
the retail store but can be ordered and picked up at the
storefront when they arrive!
In addition to the new wholesaler, this greatly expands
the in stock offerings online for Lionel and MTH!
I am still working on getting the images loaded for the
new wholesaler and this will be done as time permits!
Yet another wholesaler, Heartland Hobby, the new owner
of MRC and JTT products will be added to offer even more
items to the BRH database. I have a few more things to
do to get their offerings added and that also will be
done as time permits!
So, when this is all done, BRH will have the largest
model railroad database in the world!
Some of you have asked about Scale Trains. Well the
owner of Scale Trains only wants to sell to you directly
and will not allow any new dealers to sell his
product. Only the initial group of dealers he added when
he started up are sill selling his product. Exact
Rail is another that will only sell directly to you. So
no dealers.
In both cases this will cost you more money to get those
product lines costing you full MSRP and the cost of
shipping from one location at a time.
BRH also offers some other brands like GarGraves Track
(not listed online) and we offer a great discount price
on this line of O scale Track. EEC (East Coast Circuits)
electronics, RR-Circuits electronic and Summit USA
Models BRH purchases directly from them for you to save
you money in the long run!
BRH offers a one
stop DISCOUNT location for all of your hobby and model
railroading needs and will continue to do so!
Memorial Day Shipping Schedule
As you know the big holiday weekend is coming up and
shipping to BRH and then to you all will be affected.
Please visit the store worldwide shipping schedule page
for more information
Golden Spike Trainsets
With the 150th anniversary of the
completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, the driving
of the Golden Spike and
the operation of the Union Pacific Big
Boy, the romance and importance
of the railroads are in the news now, BRH is offering G,
O and HO scale sets to purchase today or make an advance
reservation.
Limited Quantities Are Available all available at great
low BRH prices!
LGB G Scale
Advance Reservation
MSRP $9,999.99
BRH PRICE $8,549.11
Lionel O Scale
Advance Reservation
MSRP $549.99
BRH PRICE $473.66
Bachmann HO Scale
Now Available
MSRP $549.00
BRH PRICE $327.47
Upcoming Preorder Deadlines
May 31: Intermountain Preorders
May 31: Micro-Trains Preorders
May 31: Walthers Preorders
Intermountain Railway
BRH received a large batch of Intermountain Railway
products last week for the first time in quite a long
while. All of these loco's and freight cars have been
sorted and shipped to the customers that where awaiting
these specific items.
No other information on when other back orders / advance
reservations will arrive!
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