The new owner of EPL has been announced. Read more here: http://www.trains.com/grw/default.aspx?c=a&id=551
Well if he owns a real railway then that certainly looks hopeful for the future, especially if you like the German Narrow gauge!
Paul
Well thats settled finally, now lets see what happens in the coming months…the possibilites:
The GOOD, if the new owner comes from a background of both scale models and real life railroads, methinks we may finally get new products that are more scale accurate, and less goofy fantasy products.
The BAD, being from a European railroad background, maybe less or no more new US profile models.
The UGLY, el cheapo quality MIC sets being hawked at Walmart? (a longshot but thats what happened to Schwinn bicycles, the former LGB of the bike world)
Time marches on…
The new owner of LGB was featured on one of the PBS Tracks Ahead episodes a few months ago. The railway he owns on Reugen Island is a narrow gauge tourist operation using steam locomotives that formerly ran in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Germany, as near as I recall the program. He has been a publisher/producer of a model railroading magazine and railroad videos for several years as well, so LGB is at least in the hands of a railroad person and not some large banking conglomerate.
Or, being from a railroad background, they’ll now understand what “scale” means! Later, K
If memory serves me right, I belive he is the one that either owns or owned the Frank S loco that LGB does in electric and did in live steam a few years ago. As well as the nicky+frank s loco that is still operational. We will just have to see what happens now. Glad I went over to 16mm british narrow gauge! Cheers Mike