@Trinity River Bottoms Boomer posted:Darn good reason why Made in the U.S. of America meant so much when Lionel still manufactured their trains in New Jersey.
I fail to understand why it can't still happen in Century 21 when you consider what the minimum wage is today?
Mike Wolf lead the move to overseas train manufacturing in O guage. Why?..... because Korea made a more detailed, accurate, smooth running model, and thats where the market was heading.
This probably saved O scale, as the smaller scales became more popular due to their prototypical accuracy and smooth operating characterstics.
Lionel had no choice but to jump on the "scale model bandwagon", even as far as to make the use some of Mikes tooling.
This keeps coming up over and over. The are far bigger manufacturing jobs, in everything else... that still comes from China.
Manufacturing in America is long gone. We do warehouse a **** of a lot of stuff though.
