You know, if Lionel was so interested in making trains in America, why didn't they purchase Weaver models instead of making the parts in China and assembling them here? Huh?
Oh yeah right, money!
No doubt Weaver shopped around to Lionel and MTH to purchase their production facility, but it was cheaper for them to do the work in China.
Actually, watching the video, I was surprised how archaic and labor intensive the process was to make a simple boxcar.
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No wonder the Chinese at a few bucks an hour are hired to do it.
So, more unemployed Americans due to overseas labor. I wish all of the former Weaver workers well.
Quite a stretch to assume Weaver would have been available for sale to Lionel back when Lionel tried to begin their most recent partial return to USA production, HUH!
This was something like at least 2-3 years ago now.
When are you exactly thinking Weaver was "shopped around" (and with "no doubt" - what do you think you know that we all do not?) to MTH and Lionel (and who is to say it hasn't been or won't be? All we know officially is that Weaver as we know it today is closing).
Unnecessary angst/bashing of Lionel in this Weaver thread. 
While I'm not a huge Weaver customer, I'm very sorry to see them go (I've got I think 2 engines and maybe a dozen Weaver branded cars from various club offerings - but probably tons of other club items where Weaver did the painting for special issue Lionel cars).
Joe is one of the nicest guys I have ever met while touring the dealer halls at York, and I very much enjoyed participating in the Weaver tour the couple times I went on it with OGR during York week.
Best of luck to the employees and wonderful wishes for Joe on his retirement!
Thanks for posting the video, trainroomgary!
-Dave
