@CLIFFORD posted:!!! Could this be like the recent Mr. Peanut commercial, they "killed" him in a car crash, only to be reborn during the Super Bowl , and reign again! Hey, you never know ! Could be a marketing scheme. Let the conspiracies begin......
Yeh , CHINA TRAIN HOUSE , hate to say it but it is my understanding tooling in China is owned by China 51% , some factories make trains and other stuff . If something more profitable to China they go with that . In reality train companies are just about brokers , they get a product idea and shop it for the lowest manufacturing cost . All the tooling is OLD , still useable but OLD models run over and over and over . Mike is smart just pull the plug , I am sure he has made a good chunk to live very well . Who needs headaches dealing with suppliers in a communist country . Train buyers are getting old , 3 rail trains is from a different time . New modelers like what they see out there today , and no O scale companies make modern stuff . And HO detail blows away the O scale . Like someone said he has been trying to sell it for years , people are trying to buy food and pay mortgage , rent , and wonder if they have a job . No one is going to step up and pay any real money for old tooling in a market that is shrinking . Another few years all the old coots will be dead and 3 rail will fade away or be left under a XMAS tree for old time sake , Lionel could be next , that would not surprise me either . $$$$$$ for ssuper scale engines and you track is FAST TRACK ????????
In reality there is nothing to buy , Mike had a good run and now it is done , nothing new , OVERLAND Models bench mark brass gone and many others .
Hi , wanna buy some old tooling to make trains I made for 40yrs ? By the way eBay has 1000's on there that never sell , if they do it is for half price .
Not being a Debbie downer but folks from a business investment , this is a loser . Too many trains in the secondary market , and the tooling in question makes the same stuff with a different paint scheme and most are fantasy land . All good things come to an end at some point . Hope he enjoys his retirement , and probably feel great once you get out of the burden of running a "train" company .
Probably my post will get deleted for being truthful from a practical sense .
