Beautiful model, "beautiful" price……..

[Nortonville Phil]

I was told that KTM got out of the model train business when the KTM/USA hobby experiment failed and started producing brass musical instruments.

This is a condensed history and certainly subject to correction and additions.[/quote)

http://www.ktm-models.co.jp/

[E7]

Kemtron

http://www.tcawestern.org/kemtron.htm

a lot of familiar names here!


KTM = Katsumi Mokeiten Ltd.

[bob turner]

I shall have to read that. Looks like they did a nice job, except no photo credits.

[up148]

Interesting read Rich. Info I'd heard but not as complete as this.

It appears this new KTM is different and not affiliated with the old Katsumi Mokeiten Ltd at all. I looked, but failed to find a history of Katsumi Mokeiten Ltd, but did find where they registered their KTM/USA in 1985 and is now "dead/cancelled" with US Government records, as would be expected. Lots of history lost to time I'm afraid.