LONDON GARDEN

August 2009

CRE55663 Battery Charger Free Upgrade

9-8-09

If you are an owner of the CRE55663 Battery Charger, we have an upgraded charger coming soon to replace the current version you have. The number is the same as before. We are asking you to send in your current charger back for this upgraded version.

The new version has an L.E.D. light that indicates when charging is complete and then changes to a trickle charge. We thought that is what we were getting with the first version, but they shipped without this feature. The replacement will be sent to you at no charge. We're sure you will be more than happy with this newer device.

We have done extensive testing with this newer version and it works as intended. Therefore, we will give you a no-charge replacement if you get the first version back to us. This charger is exclusively for the CRE55653 NiMH pack at 19v at 2.8 Amps. The CRE55653 battery pack is very powerful and needs a higher-grade charger like the one we have now improved. We're flying in these chargers and expect them by the end of September.

All the best,

Lewis Polk

Aristo-Craft Trains

March 2009

Letter from LGB to it's customers.

Dear LGB-Customer,

Before the gardening season starts, we would like to pass on the latest news about LGB.

Even as the preliminary insolvency of Gebr. Märklin & Cie. GmbH is published, the daily business continues. Especially the production of LGB and the deliveries to the LGB-retailers.

Of the already announced locos and cars, tracks, accessories, signals, the MTS-components and sound moduls etc. most are available close to 100%. There should be no bottleneck regarding the deliveries. Therefore it is possible for you to enlarge your LGB-layout in springtime 2009, which wasn't possible in 2008.

Most New Items, shown during the recent International Toy Fair 2009, will become available - besides some exclusions. Maybe there will be some delays, due to problems with suppliers. But we will keep you informed.

Also the diesel loco Köf of the HSB (L21930) and the DB (L20930) as well as the RhB Car (L40920) and the DB car (L41920) will be available middle of the year 2009. The latest delivery list is attached.

Also we can inform the subscribers of the LGB-DEPESCHE and the LGB- Club-Members, that the announced issue for May 2009 is in preparation. This means, the 2nd issue of the DEPESCHE 2009 will be released in time.

Repairs, warranty repairs of your LGB-Items and spare parts orders will be handled as in the past. Please understand, that there are still spare parts missing. Those spare parts will be available as soon as the relevant products are produced.

Furthermore, LGB will be shown at the "Faszination Modellbau" in Sinsheim (March 12 - March 15, 2009) and at the "Intermodellbau" in Dortmund (April 22 - April 26, 2009). Take the chance to talk to LGB-employees.

Dear LGB-Customers, for more information please call +49 911 83707-837.

We thank you and wish you a good start with LGB in the Gardening Season 2009

With best regards

Gebr. Märklin & Cie. GmbH

Betriebsstätte Nürnberg (LGB)

November 2008

Thanks to everyone for the bus trip! That means those who helped organize it and those who attended it. The organizers did a great job with the buses, accommodations, scheduling, coordination with the other clubs and even entertainment en route! Those who attended it made it fun for all of us. It was a really wonderful way to spend Labour Day weekend and expand our horizons beyond southwestern Ontario. Our bus driver Doug, was the most patient we have ever experienced, and also the best backer-upper we’ve seen! Although we weren’t there much, the Drury Inn was spotless and possibly the quietest motel we’ve been in for a long time. The Cincinnati clubs were so welcoming, and their garden railroads were each unique and inspiring in many different ways. Saturday morning breakfast was beyond belief, and like something out of a Walt Disney film, it’s just too bad the whole world can’t live like that. Entertrainment Junction is awe inspiring even though it is unfinished. We took the full three hours to explore it and the full extent of the undertaking became apparent as Don took us backstage for a private tour of the underbelly. We definitely need to return in about a year when everything is more finished and possibly Watts has a store there. The weather was fantastic, someone must have been saying their prayers because miserable weather would have been a real bummer. Jackie’s Trains went out of their way to welcome us and having lunch provided was more than we expected. Their kindness will reap even more business rewards in the future. Even the fact that we all worked together to beat ‘those other buses’ at Port Huron/Sarnia customs was fun! Our fellow passengers made the trip totally memorable and fun, it was nice to meet the couples from other clubs in Ontario, we hope to see them again. This was a group effort and it paid off. Hopefully we can do it again sometime in the next few years!