Found a Weaver Models TV Feature on YouTube

thank you for sharing!

Andre.

Very interesting video. Thanks for posting. Makes me miss them even more. 

Very interesting, Thanks for sharing!

I seen this video a few months ago. It is a great video they did. 

Wow thanks for posting

There was a PCN Tours, (PA Cable Network), segment done at the Weaver plant many years ago, and it was very interesting. I wonder if it is available? It went into detail about every aspect of the entire manufacturing process.

Don

We lost a great company.

Very true Mr. Sutter.... How is everything out in Homer City? Hope You and Peggy are doing well.    I remember the PCN Tours segment... Watched it a few times.. Would be nice to find it on-line.

THANKS FOR SHARING. INTERESTING TO SEE THE PAD PRINTING PROCESS IN ACTION

TrainWizard, the video was posted here before a few months ago.

https://ogrforum.com/t...22#42539258955245922

The processes are similar for the other train makers also. They're both complicated and costly... even done overseas. If folks considered these processes, then they might understand the time and money that goes into to producing even a simply decorated train car. Far more effort than ordering a custom burger or coffee at the drive-through window. Yet somehow we believe everything is as simple as the drive-through.

For that matter, the TCA presentation videos are also very informative, and also have relatively low view counts. And in some of those videos, train company reps have explained reasons why one product gets made and another does not. There just might be good reasons for why some products have never been made in 0 gauge/scale, and why they probably never will be made.

At a show some years ago, I overheard someone ask Mike Wolf (who by the way, IS a train guy) for more trains with the Wabash road name. Mike's answer was simple, yet one most don't like to hear... "It doesn't sell."

The surprising bit of info in this Weaver video is that they only made 5,000 to 8,000 products per year. A single run of a Lionel starter set can equal or surpass those numbers. It just puts some perspective on how small the 0 scale market really is. And for me, it makes me wonder how any company could make it on such small production run numbers?

I think Weaver's niche and strongest point in the market was their ability and willingness to do small custom runs for clubs and businesses. 

It would be neat if we could find that!

brianel027, thanks for posting the link!  When I watched the video via the link supplied by trainwizard, I thought I was having a "senior moment" or, as Yogi Bera said: "It was deja vu all over again."