Walthers

Those familiar with North American model railroads, will no doubt know the Walthers firm. For many years, they've been one of the biggest model railroading retailers in the US, and they are famous for their catalog, which for HO alone, is the size of a decent yellow pages book. They also produce their own trains, and structures etc, and today announced that they have entered in a Partnership with Soundtraxx, to use their Tsunami decoders in their upcoming locomotives, the first being the PRR E8 locomotive in their Proto 2000 line. (Proto 2000 was formerly by Life Like, and marketed by Brawa in Europe, when Life Like went bankrupt, Walthers took over the rights etc and has since been producing Proto 2000 models).
Also they announced a partnership with Brekina, a german manufacturer of scale model cars and it will mark the first time that they are available in the US on a wider schale. Hopefully, this will result in more US based car models available to us modelers.