Originally Posted by Erie_Lackawanna:
Wow surprised to see that Lionel would do that.. To have there name on a product that they have no quality control over.. Very interesting..
It's very simple.
MTH had been making reproductions of Lionel tin for years,(dare I say decades?) the only thing missing was the Lionel branding.
It made more business sense for Lionel to sign a contract with MTH than to invest in tooling and assembly resources for a relatively small slice of the model train pie.
Rusty
