News column - 1
January 2014:
The latest model railroad products, news & events
by Richard Bale and Jeff Shultz
Atlas shifts executive lineup
Tom Haedrich, the CEO of Atlas Model Railroad Company for
the past 30 years, has announced a series of changes in the
senior executive staff of the company. He will become the execu-
tive chairman of the board of directors, while Paul Graf, cur-
rently chief operating officer, will become the new CEO. Jarrett
Schaffan Haedrich, currently vice president marketing and the
great-grandson of Atlas founder Stephan J. Schaffan Sr., will
become the new COO. The company’s current marketing coor-
dinator, Eric Mosher, will become vice president marketing. In
announcing the changes, Tom Haedrich said, “This year Atlas is
celebrating its 90th anniversary as a family owned business, and
we are very fortunate to have qualified in-house personnel to
continue managing our company”…
Investment firm to purchase Horizon Hobby
Horizon Hobby, Inc., the parent company of Athearn Trains,
will be sold later this month to an investment group led by Joe
