Allan Miller posted:You can be quite sure that, aside from production of select items such as rolling stock where the tooling is already here (some Lionel product, for example), you will NOT see the manufacturing of major items such as motive power return to the U.S. There may be alternative countries that can handle these things to avoid sticking with China, but I seriously doubt that any of the toy and model train manufacturers, regardless of scale, will return full production to the U.S. As desireable as that might be, it just does not make a whole lot of economic sense these days, especially since, as I understand it, toy train makers today with production in China do not even have full control/ownership over their own tooling.
Allan,
A few years ago I tried to have product quoted in India only to find out that the Indians had the Chinese quote product for them.
Lou N
