Bill Nielsen posted:Word was that all US prototype Rivarossi tooling was left outside in the storage yard (out in the weather) when all the tooling was sent to the UK after Hornby acquired the Rivarossi assets from the bankruptcy several years ago. This included most of the HO steam, diesel, and passenger cars, as well as the tooling for the Pocher 19th century items, and, presumably the O scale. The HO scale Allegheny and GE U-boat tooling May have escaped this fate, since they were in development or early stages of production at the time. As you might guess, weather in the UK is not conducive to outside storage of tooling (or much else, for that matter!), so it is likely those items will never be run again...
Bill in FtL
Did not a large number of their HO steam engines end up in the IHC line? I am pretty sure the Passenger cars did because I have a set in IHC boxes but which are obviously AHM/Rivarossi in origin. If that's the case, this story is probably not entirely true.
