WM tenders made in Slovenia or Yugoslovia

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Just saw these on Ebay. The bottom is stamped with the country. Who put these out?

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Mehanotechnica

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Which, I believe, in the US were imported by American Hobby Manufacturers (AHM). Later they added Rivarossi, Roco, Kader and a few others to their line.

http://ho-scaletrains.com/ahm-associated-hobby-manufacturers/

Cheers! Ed

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Thanks guys.

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I think in the US Mehano was best known for the engines and cars they made for IHC (International Hobby Corp.) in the 1990’s-2000’s, like the 2-6-0 and 4-8-2 steam engines, and the passenger cars.

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The IHC 4-8-2 C&O mountains were 2 of the first steam engines I bought when I reentered the hobby. Still have them and they run excellent. Weathered up they look pretty good.

They had 2 types of tenders, a rectangular one and a vanderbilt. The vanderbilt was from some older tooling that had a motor in the tender, so it was not totally accurate. The rectagular tender was really nice.