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Melgar, Weaver did close its doors several years ago. Mike made some great stuff, but his Proto 1 ended up to be very troublesome, even though it was QSI that made it for MTH. But he over produced trains just like Lionel did, and they together "killed the goose that laid the golden egg". They are making this stuff in China, yet keep raising the price to a level that people are not going to buy much of it. Mike had problems in Korea too with zinc pest; I do not know if that problem exists with any of the stuff made in China. I am sure someone will buy the rights to produce some of the products, but how many Big Boys can you make and sell, and people like me that bought his early stuff are either converting it to TMCC or Proto 3, which may go away, or trying to sell it and we are getting a lot less than we paid for it. When it comes to rolling stock, you can pick up some nice MTH premiem cars for $20-30 on ebay. Why pay $65.00 for a new box car?
