Most of my AM freight cars have "USA" cast into the dies, which suggests that
they were originally produced here, but
quite a few scale models which used to be made entirely in the US ended up in
East Asia where low labor costs resulted
in larger sales by offering ready-to-run cars for those that didn't want to
assemble their own kits (Intermountain in O
scale being an obvious case before they sold their dies to Atlas).
The AM boxes still suggest that scale cars are available as kits, although I
suspect it is no longer possible to buy them
that way new.
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
> Mike, back in the last century American Models did have a label on their
> engine boxes that claimed they were made in America. I would assume
> that it actually meant it was assembled here because I think all their
> motors were from Asia. I also think most of the earlier freight cars
> were cast here. At the Dearborn convention we saw a hopper car mold
> setting on a shelf. That being said the people who actually had the
> injection molding were elsewhere. I would bet the only S manufacturer
> to actually make their own plastic castings would be PBL in California
> besides the long ago Loco Workshops boxcar kits--what a relic!
>
> Bob Werre
> >
> >
> >
> > I just read in my new S Gaugian magazine that American Models does
> > have its tooling in China, as I thought I understood they made all
> > their product in the US.
> >
> > Again, hopefully soon this will pass and all the S makers effected by
> > this will be back in full operation.
> >
> > Mike
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