Micro Engineering is for sale…

[rodsup9000]

So if Micro Engineering outsources their rail why did code 40 rail evaporate from the earth?

  Just a guess, the new owner hasn't brought any in from the UK cause the demand isn't enough for the outlay of cash it would cost to bring in the minimum.

[davefoxx]

So if Micro Engineering outsources their rail why did code 40 rail evaporate from the earth?

Because you used it all up.  Maybe you could salvage some from the multitude of layouts you’ve built over the years. 

DFF

[Sokramiketes]

So if Micro Engineering outsources their rail why did code 40 rail evaporate from the earth?

When the Rands owned the company, they had it run in large quanitites and shipped in.  Possibly just a situation where they sold out of stock but didn't have the new batch lined up?

[dandopinski]

I'm hoping that they expand their line of switches in code 40 and code 55. If they did #4,#5,#6 and #8 it would certainly boost sales of the flex track. I think a lot of modellers pass over the flex track because they have no appetite for building switches, and that's a shame because ME flex looks so much better than Peco etc... 
Even if they supplied just the switch parts (frogs.point rails etc) I think it would boost their sales.

[kiwi_al]

A lot of your questions will be answered here https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=59207.0 if you click on the video at the beginning - stock levels and why there is low stock and what they are doing about it

[Chris333]

Thanks. I remember Tim Warris saying that the ME sale wouldn't affect them because the rail was made elsewhere. But here we are...

[MetroRedLine]

I'm hoping that they expand their line of switches in code 40 and code 55. If they did #4,#5,#6 and #8 it would certainly boost sales of the flex track. I think a lot of modellers pass over the flex track because they have no appetite for building switches, and that's a shame because ME flex looks so much better than Peco etc... 
Even if they supplied just the switch parts (frogs.point rails etc) I think it would boost their sales.

In the late 2000s-early 2010s there was a famine of Atlas turnouts that lasted for quite a few years. ME had the chance to take over the market by introducing a line of their own Code 55 turnouts (aside from that one #6) but nah. This was still years before their previous owner had their issues, but maybe they didn't have the resources to do it.