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Aristo Craft Merging with LGB

General Discussion
#1

Huge News!

Today, it was announced that Aristo-Craft will merge with LGB.

LGB has been slowly realizing they have been losing the US market, and based on the past abilities of Aristo to produce exact copies of LGB track in exacting detail and Aristo’s proven track record with Chinese manufacturers makes this a marriage made in Heaven.

Lewis Polk will patch up his relationship with his nephew Scott and will begin the immediate manufacture of the GG-1 and the SD-9, thus revitalizing the 1:29 market.

Also, by popular demand, the 27 MHz Train Engineer will be re-issued. The smoothside passenger cars, in scale 80’ length will be re-issued, and besides the Observation and Coach already manufactured, exact scale replicas of full consists for several famous passenger trains.

Also, Navin will re-join the expanded parts department, and spare detail items will be stocked.

More to come!

Greg

#2

Easter treat or April Fools?

#3

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#4

well if they dont start out with a 4 container full run of Dash 9 Loco’s I will be extremely dissapointed. The market for them is hot right now so they will make a killing selling brand new ones at over $500.00, I heard also they will be doing a flood the market campaign to get the hobby back on its feet.

In related news, bouyed by advertisement sales, GR magazine announced this evening it will begin monthly publishing and a minumun of 150 pages per issue.

edited to say, fact checked this on Snopes and they think its all good information

#5

Greg, if only…

#6

OH NO

The Chinese space station hit the container with the Dash 9s AND the ore cars!

:slight_smile:

Jerry

#7

I leave you nitwits unsupervised for just a minute…

#8

Pete Lassen said:

… GR magazine announced this evening it will begin monthly publishing and a minumun of 150 pages per issue.

Speaking of Garden Railways, a little bit ago I was rounding up stuff to put in The World Famous Book Bag of Entertainment to take to the city tomorrow for an orthopedic Dr appointment and the most recent 5 issues of GR were part of that.

Just went and measured - the last 5 issues of GR stack up to 7/16 of an inch thick.

Looks like about 11mm for our metric members.

#9

Jerry, that is damn funny!

The mystery is finally solved. (I had forgotten the ore cars too!)

Well, we needed at least one April fools post!

Greg

#10

Steve Featherkile said:

I leave you nitwits unsupervised for just a minute…

Steve, you know us. A minute is all it takes.

#11

Ahh, the SW-1500 switcher was announced too:

#12

I’ve got to hand it to you Greg…you had me going for a bit. Then came the bit about Lewis and Scott and I started thinking…“really??? Greg really knows his shxt but this is way out there.” And then I looked up at the date and well…that was hysterical!

#13

I was so surprised last night when I realized no April Fools posts, here or on any other forums.

We need to lighten up a bit I think!

Greg

#14

Can’t say anything untoward, or we’ll get spanked. Sure has cut down on the family aspect of this site.

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#17

Now, if they are going to release this we’ll be getting somewhere,

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/pr93s.jpg

#18

I always wanted an SW-1500!

I just saw your posting Greg! I had to check what date you posted it!

you are bad Greg!

#19

Yeah, I think it would have been a great seller…

It was in the 1996 catalog as a new product that year:

#20

I was looking through an old Aristocraft catalog last night, they had such a great breadth of product.

I am surprised no one has picked their products up and brought them back to life, but I understand that the market is saturated.