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Jim R. posted:
Rusty Traque posted:
Jim R. posted:

In the long term, Atlas may regret its decision to move all of its production to China. The deal is getting worse and worse for our train companies. But for decades now, our N, HO and O gauge companies have saved on production costs enough to keep the going. Those who did not adapt, such as European firms Rivarossi, Arnold, Trix, Fleischmann and others, are gone.

That could have been Atlas.

Rivarossi is still available through Hornby.  Trix is a part of Marklin.  Fleischmann sold their HO line to Roco, but is still making N Scale.

Rusty

Not the tooling. The companies are gone (except, apparently, for Fleishmann in N scale).

Rivarossi went bankrupt and was acquired by Arnold. Arnold ran into financial trouble and was acquired by Hornby. (Hornby produces in China.) Model Power controlled the Minitrix N American scale line made in Germany until it disappeared, and Trix sold its European HO and N lines to Marklin, which went bankrupt in 2010, re-emerged and was sold to an investment firm.

There is very little model train production in Europe now, though I think LGB and Marklin have production facilities in Hungary as well as Germany.

Hi Jim,

Questions/assumptions on my part...

I thought Kader owned Hornby.  I also thought that Horizon had their hand in on MP/Mantua?

And a passing thought......although the Mantua tooling is old, there is a renewed interest in old HO, hence the new magazine from White River:  HO Collector.

Lou N

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