Lehmann/LGB news is here!

[Rene Schweitzer]

The new owner of EPL has been announced. Read more here: http://www.trains.com/grw/default.aspx?c=a&id=551

[devils]

Well if he owns a real railway then that certainly looks hopeful for the future, especially if you like the German Narrow gauge!

Paul

[vsmith]

Well thats settled finally, now lets see what happens in the coming months...the possibilites:

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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.

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The BAD, being from a European railroad background, maybe less or no more new US profile models.

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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.....

[cacole]

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.

[kstrong]

Or, being from a railroad background, they'll now understand what "scale" means! Later, K

[climaxpwr]

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