Very modern and spacious facility. Clearly Lionel spent a boatload of money on this building. Ryan briefly toured the Project Management area, which he said works on development and getting things "right from concept to delivery." If that area isn't under the gun now, they should be!
Looks like Lionel is going into the HO market in a big way. Statements that Lionel is "getting more and more into HO," it's "becoming a very big part of our product line," and a "very big part of the engineering team's job and time" are indicative of this new emphasis. As others have opined, it may to be a hint that they see the O gauge market as nearing a peak, and Lionel is getting ready for the future by augmenting it's product line with the most popular gauge, HO, even mentioned that they may get into N gauge at some future time. Then again, it may just be a way to expand their business and increase profits, and nothing more then that. But probably both are true.
