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Number of employees
  
12 (US) 350 (Korea)

Founded
  
2001

Type of business
  
LLC

Founder
  
Bob Grubba

Revenue
  
10 million USD (Est.)

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Key people
  
Bob Grubba, President/CEO Ken Silvestri, VP of Sales

Products
  
Model railroad locomotives and rolling stock

Website
  
Broadway Limited Imports, LLC

Headquarters
  
Ormond Beach, Florida, United States

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Broadway Limited Imports, LLC (BLI) designs and manufactures limited-run HO scale and N scale model railroad locomotives and rolling stock. BLI products produced in extremely limited quantities, are equipped with Digital Command Control decoders and the ability to reproduce the recorded sounds of actual trains.

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The company was founded in 2001 by Anton Wenzel, Bob Zimet and Robert Grubba. In 2004, Grubba bought out the interest of his partners, moving the company to Ormond Beach, Florida the following year. On April 8, 2007, BLI combined their website with Precision Craft Models, Inc..

The company expanded its offering in 2007 with the addition of its "Blueline" product line. The Blueline HO-scale train models offer digital sound systems but lack the DCC remote control and sell for about half the price of the company's Paragon series models. The purchaser can add the remote control later with a plug-in decoder module.

In 2009, the offered product line expanded again. The new Paragon2 line utilizes an integrated DCC decoder that can be operated on DC track as well, as well as DCC sound capability and steam generating units on many locomotives. The launch of the Paragon2 line also resulted in BLI being sued by another model train company, Mike's Train House Inc. for perceived violation of its patents related to model train sound systems, a claim which BLI vehemently denied. Broadway Limited won this lawsuit in a summary judgement in 2011.

In 2015 the company introduced Rolling Thunder, US patent #7,634,411, a system that transmits the low frequency bass sounds from a locomotive to a subwoofer located beneath the model train layout. The bass sounds play in synchronization with the audio as it plays through the on-board speakers housed in the locomotive.

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References

Broadway Limited Imports Wikipedia