prrhorseshoecurve posted:Will Ebbert posted:prrhorseshoecurve postedYou're rihri. However Lionel was smart enough to get the former Weaver tooling and mfg in the USA the Lionscale products. I hope they will continue this with expansion of locomotive production of the GP38 and RS3. This will give Lionel a "plan b" back up should they fall into a similar situation.
If I'm not mistaken, Weaver locomotives, passenger cars, and high end freight cars like the Milwaukee Road box cars were all made in China.
Not Quite. The Gp38 and Rs3's were made here! The AlCo RS11, RSD12, and BLW Vo1000 were made in China. The Ultra Line of Freight cars were made here- and subsequently are now called Lionscale. Some Die cast parts were made in China, but the GP38- Shell, Truck Side Frames, Railings all were made here! The ALCo RS3 Bodies, Frames, and Fuel tank were made here!
GP 38-2 one of Weaver's last offerings. Note that the truck side frames are molded plastic attached to metal trucks.
Weaver RS-3 was also offered late, but had several different drive and detail packages over the years.
Weaver had a pretty good in house paint and pad printing shop, able to do a lot of their own detail and custom work. There is or was discussion of the "made in the USA" product detail. As with a lot of product in the USA there were component percentage rules that detailed the "made in the USA" stamp.
