Unless I missed it there is no mention of Lionel being affected by the shutdown in the Atlas Factory Shutdown thread. Several companies are listed on page four of the thread but Lionel is not one of them.
Neal Jeter
The following was posted in the Atlas Factory Shutdown thread:
As of today...
Affected are:
Atlas (Official Announcement)
Bluford Shops (Official Announcement)
Bowser (Official Announcement)
ExactRail (Official Announcement)
Fox Valley Models (Official Announcement)
Intermountain (Official Announcement)
Spring Mills Depot (Official Announcement)
Trainworx Inc. (Official Announcement) Note: Not Darci's Trainworx
Wheels of Time (Official Announcement)
Not affected are:
Athearn (Official Announcement)
Bachmann/Kader - Kader owns their factories
Rapido (Official Announcement)
Scale Trains (Official Announcement)
Walthers (Official Announcement)
Not dependent on China:
Accurail (Illinois based with in house production)
MTL (Oregon based with in house production)
Kadee (Oregon based with in house production)
Kato (Japanese company with production based in Japan)
Shinohara (Japanese based, but shutting down due to retirement)
From what is being published, the impact is going to be most felt in HO and N scale, however there is also collateral damage to the O and Z scale sectors.
Andre