@Catonsville Central Railway posted:But if this is well and truly the end, I just want to comment in response to previous posters...if you think MTH equipment will now be worthless then I don't think you understand supply and demand. We have a hobby full of people who love to run and collect Mike's stuff. Now that MTH won't be making anymore stuff (we assume), the only options for getting MTH trains will be through the second-hand market. Items that are rarer or more desirable will be fetching a premium in upcoming years, just wait and see. See K Line stuff for instance.
But if anyone wants to go ahead and clear out their MTH collections at bargain basement prices, I can speak for myself and I'm sure many others in saying we'd be happy to take the stuff off your hands!
Woody, I agree with you. In the '70s when Lionel was owned by MPC many folks preferred the Lionel PW trains produced by the original company and the prices of those trains went up. I can see the same thing happening here if like you said this is truly the end.
Wow, it is the next day and it still feels like a punch to the gut. I knew that someday Mike would want to retire but I guess I always thought that Andy or someone else from inside the company would take over.
