China, Japan or USA

[SWARTWOUT]

Does anyone know where the Bachmann diesels are made or is that a company secret.  (Atlas from China, Kato from Japan).  I wonder who does the actual design.

Atlas and Kato are terrific machines.

[Matthew Ginkel]

China

[conradin]

Visit Kader's site.  They have an incredible state of the art operation AutoCAD).
Now I understand how they improve a design in Hong Kong, then ship the prototype off to their Chinese factory in Dongguan of the Canton Provence and mass produce.

http://www.kader.com.hk/

You can learn more about Dongguan here in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongguan

Personally, I know little about Dongguan except the city is famous for its rice vermicelli!

[brokemoto]

Most of the newer B-mann is made in China.

Atlas is mostly made in China, although some of it has come from South Korea (VO-1000s).

Kato comes from Japan.

Micro-Ace and Tomix are mostly from Japan, but they do have some stuff done in China.

Inter-Mountain is mostly made in China.

Walthers/Life-Like is mostly made in China.

Model Power is made both in China and South Korea.

The only large manufacturer that still makes their stuff in the USA, of which I am aware, is MicroTrains.  Still, the motors for their FTs come from somewhere  in Asia.