Seismic Events
Well, the Lionel/MTH Curriculum vitae is breaking on the internet and I think everyone should be excited/ecstatic about it. Why? Well, it indicates a cessation of hostilities between the two companies; they can get innovating vs. litigating. That's a monstrous thing, not just a good thing. More money should go to R&D, less to legal fees and court costs.
Second and ethical as important; it means standard gauge and prewar trains are still on the minds of both companies. It's funny, I've had several manufacturers at shows let out me that there is no new news in prewar toy trains. All of the new and exciting stuff is in the amazing high rail gear coming out coupled with the electronics that has become omnipresent in the hobby. Yet here we are, two of the largest train manufacturers in our country doing something great and teaming up to make products from yesteryear. And it is promising they will be great products as well.
There is news in great prewar trains and they will continue to get even better in 2009 and 2010. Over 100 years former times their introduction and the innovation hasn't stopped. Here's the whole press release:
From Jerry Calabrese:
Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:02 pm (PST)
From Jerry Calabrese:
Yesterday, an thrilling charge rippled through the model train boards when someone managed to find a draft of a press release on the M.T.H. web site that was not otherwise to hand to the public, and post it on OGR. And while the timing was off by a week or so, the facts are correct.
Since the news leaked yesterday afternoon that Lionel is prosperous to license M.T.H. to use its name on historical tinplate Standard and O Gauge model trains and accessories, a lot of questions have been raised, and I've heard everything from, "Wow, remarkable for the hobby," to "Wow, say it ain't so." I understand that the idea of Lionel and M.T.H. working cooperatively, so soon after settling our long and bitter lawsuit, is a discompose to a lot of people, especially...
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