Two years ago when Todd Krutchoff was laid off from work, he realized that he was going to have to do something in order to continue bringing in an income. Opportunity struck when his son Max was going through a model train phase. Max had collected trains from a few cities around the country and seeing he lives in Massachusetts, he decided that he wanted one based off of the T in Boston. After searching everywhere for one, Todd was finally told that they didn't exist. Seeing a chance to make his own business, combined with not wanting to let Max down, Sidetrack Products was born.
"I was shocked no one was doing it for Boston," Todd said.
Sidetrack Products started with models of the Boston MBTA green line trolley car and soon expanded to include t-shirts and onesies with the T printed on the front. Recently Todd wanted to make the business even bigger and Sidetrack now sells magnets and keychains as well. the products are sold through Boston gift shops and are official licensed products of the MBTA.
One of the biggest challenges that Todd has faced is staying patient because he said that things take so much longer than you anticipate. Because these types of products never existed before though, the MBTA is grateful that they can now sell them. As an entrepreneur Todd knew to take advantage of that fact.
"I saw it as an opportunity cause no one else was doing it."
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