Reply to "The "O-Scale" Gateman. A real disappointment."

I’m sure the O Scale was just as others said , to differentiate the product from HO product that was on the same aisle in toy stores . As for quality of MPC, there were a few things that were cheapened , but the vast majority of the items were improvements on the items produced by the Lionel Corp during its last few years of train production. Many of those were a far cry from the quality products from Lionel’s golden age . The books recommended do give great insight into the era. The Lionel Corp at the time didn’t care about what MPC made , only that the royalty checks came on time . The train line was going to be discontinued anyways. If not for MPC it is possible all the tooling and equipment would have been lost forever