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Digitrax Panama City Florida
« on: October 15, 2018, 02:25:37 PM »
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I am posting this here because I've not seen any posting on any of the forums on the subject.
The Digitrax website stated "News Oct. 8, 2018 Digitrax to be closed 10/9 to 10/11 due to Hurricane Michael".   There has not been any update.
Given the horrible destruction in the area where Digitrax has their headquarters and AJ and Zana and their employees live we should all have them and the greater Model Railroad Community in the areas affected in our thoughts and prayers.
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Re: Digitrax Panama City Florida
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2018, 02:34:54 PM »
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John posted this in the Crew Lounge:

https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=45580.msg590757#msg590757

Apparently they have checked in on Facebook, but I don't know their current status.


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Re: Digitrax Panama City Florida
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2018, 03:50:56 PM »
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It looks like they are ok, but their building is missing part of the roof.  See this link:
https://storms.ngs.noaa.gov/storms/michael/index.html#18/30.19259/-85.60788
The Digitrax building is the grey one in the center.  The upper left corner is missing.  The brown roof building towards the street is their office.

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Re: Digitrax Panama City Florida
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2018, 09:26:49 PM »
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Greetings from Digitrax!

We are so thankful that our team survived Hurricane Michael and for the support of our amazing community and first responders. It has been a humbling experience for all of us.

Unfortunately, due to the severity of the destruction caused by the storm, our main building has sustained substantial damages.

We will be moving to our secondary building, and as soon as power is restored we will be able to begin to re-establish normal operations. Thanks in advance for your patience.

Since we do not have phone service right now, please direct tech support questions to our help desk @ helpdesk.digitrax.com.

All repair items we have in house are secure and repairs will be completed as soon as humanly possible.

We would like to thank all our wonderful customers for their support during this time. We couldn't do this without you!

Digitrax will be back running trains, and better than ever!

- The Digitrax Team.



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Re: Digitrax Panama City Florida
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2018, 10:53:12 PM »
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Glad to hear they're going to be OK!

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Re: Digitrax Panama City Florida
« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2018, 06:12:08 PM »
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Ditto.
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Re: Digitrax Panama City Florida
« Reply #6 on: December 16, 2018, 06:03:45 AM »
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Merry Christmas! Digitrax is shipping again!

It’s been a tough 9 weeks since Hurricane Michael’s (Cat 4+) eyewall passed about 4 miles to the east of Digitrax on October 10, 2018. Digitrax was without power for several weeks and our internet was finally restored on December 13. All of us at Digitrax have worked every day since the storm to get back up and running. We are so thankful for all the kind words of support and for your patience during this disaster.

We have inspected, tested and repackaged finished goods that were in stock prior to the storm, and on Friday December 14 we resumed shipping to our dealers. Zephyr Starter Sets were on backorder at the time of the Hurricane and they will still be on backorder for a couple of weeks until we can begin building them again. There will be other items that may become temporarily unavailable as we re-start. Most of our component inventory and all raw circuit boards were at the epicenter of our severe building damage and must be replaced. We are in the process of ordering the parts we need to build our products.

Over the past 9 weeks, we moved our manufacturing operations into our smaller building which was not as badly damaged as the main building. There are still a few leaks when it rains and space is tight but, we are fortunate to have a suitable building where we can resume manufacturing operations. Much of our surface mount equipment will be replaced due to storm water damage. We will be able to return to our pre-storm manufacturing capacity once we get the replacement equipment installed and programmed and once we replace our component and circuit board inventories.

Our main building has been dried-in and all interior drywall, carpet, etc. have been removed. We will begin rebuilding that structure after the first of the year.

Our phone service is still limited so, if you call and don’t get an answer, please leave a message and we will call you back. If you have tech support or repair questions please send them to our help desk @ helpdesk.digitrax.com.

All repair items we have received are being logged in now that our network and internet is running. Repairs will be completed after the first of the year, when we have resources to process these. Again, we are very thankful for everyone’s patience; including dealers, users and employees.

We would like to thank all our wonderful stakeholders for their support during this time. We couldn't do this without you!

Digitrax is back running trains, and we’re rebuilding better than ever!

https://www.facebook.com/digitraxdcc/photos/pcb.2179542475430255/2179539262097243/?type=3&theater

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Re: Digitrax Panama City Florida
« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2018, 09:36:23 AM »
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Very good news indeed.