I'm watching one of my Christmas gifts - The Making of the Scale Hudson. I never fully appreciated the labor required to assemble a locomotive from parts. A question popped into my mind while watching and is related to the Lionel/Sandra Kan thread. I vaguely remember discussion on the board regarding the tooling, parts, etc of Lionel when production was moved overseas. Was all the existing tooling, plastic injection molds, etc sent overseas to be used to make the trains in China? The reason I ask is discussion comes up on the board on occasion as to how manufacturing moves from a Korean company to a Chinese company or vice-versa or Chinese to new Chinese. I would think moving all the tooling, molds, etc would be a logistical nightmare if it had to be physically moved from factory A to factory B.
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