I recently met with Bud Reece here in Las Vegas at the Western Toy & Hobby Show and we got to chat about Bachmann's future plans. Bachmann plans to use more of the Kader factories for production instead of the recently aquired Sanda Kan factory which now is used by Hornby to manafacture at. In fact Hornby is the biggest customer there. Bachmann also announced two new HO DCC sets with sound that shatter a price point and are expected to be huge sellers! I wont get into N , or G scale other than the brass track Line in G will expand. In Williams expect some big changes to their line. They have complete use of the former K-Line tooling and we will see a number of new announcments at York. They will be entering the big scale market and picking up the slack from others who have not moved forward with their plans. (You can read between the lines here).
Now another tidbit about another major O gauge train manfacture just came across my desk. Expect a major announment at York.
Off to the Golf Course!
Lionel has already reproduced the "K Line tooled" mikado, k4, berkshires shays and others. No one even noticed that the drivers on the VL hudson are K Line, I suspect Lionel may have the rest of the tooling for K Lines scale hudson. Lionel has adopted K Lines steam loco gearbox as well.
