When the relationship between Mike Wolf and Richard Kughn went south and the orders to Samhongsa fell off, Mike had to do something or lose the exclusive rights he had with the Korean factory. So, He began production of his own in 1994. He debuted the Dash 8 premier diesels in several different road names at York in October, 1994. When Mr. Kughn saw the new diesels and inquired who made them , Mike said that he was producing them under his own brand MTH. Kughn went ballistic and the following week he sent Mike a letter or telegram stating that he was no longer a Lionel distributor or dealer. A lawsuit promptly followed for restraint of trade. Mike invested the lawsuit proceeds into an explosion of new tooling that almost put Lionel into the dumpster.
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