You might want to consider asking, (just for everyone's education and appreciation for what is available now product wise) in general, what are the costs of bringing a totally new piece of rolling stock versus a locomotive into production and to the market. I'm sure AM must have been affected by the shake up years ago at Sanda Kan, and it is my understand that now everything that ships from China has to be paid for in full before shipment... adding to the cost and risk factor.
Of course, his finances are no one's business. But every other train company rep I've heard talk about this, says the same thing... that it is incredibly expensive given the market size. Jason Shron of Rapido is pretty open about this topic. Even with the larger size of the HO market, he says careful thought has to be put into new product development. Wrong steps for small companies can have irrevocable consequences.
