@gunrunnerjohn posted:You and me both Chuck! What a bummer they chose to simply orphan tens of thousands of locomotives at the stroke of a pen! You know if the parts ever do surface that they'll cost lots more than they did previously!
The cynic in me still wonders if that was a move to force people to buy new stuff and they really did just dump them!
Not even being cynical you have to believe that is the sales model. I am sure someone realized how much they were losing when people could easily revive old locos with OEM parts at a fraction of the cost of new. TMCC stuff could go on forever with Lionel's continued support and that isn't adding to their bottom line. Planned obsolescence was bound to catch up with the toy train industry at some point.
