QUOTE: Trains are something that can get in your blood. I believe it is either in there or not. No amount of cultivating will get the desire for trains out unless it is there in the first place. I certainly feel there are some out there who may have this desire but without the proper marketing may never know about the hobby
brianel, Agent 027
"Praise the Lord. I may not have everything I desire, but the Lord has come through for what I need."
QUOTE: Final thought: I wouldn't put a whole load of stock on what the CEO's of the various companies say right now. Lionel is owned by Wellspring and Wellspring calls the financial shots. Calabreese is paid to put out a good word...
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
QUOTE: The O gauge segment of the hobby is slowly drowning in a sea of devisiveness and bitterness, inspired in part by the actions of various manufacturers, but most certainly advanced and perpetuated by hobbyists themselves. Very sad to see, to be sure.
QUOTE: Fortunately, as I stated in my previous post, there are a good many people in this hobby who represent the best that any hobby can and should offer. No question about that, and a number of them are right here on this forum.
QUOTE: See the community of enthusiasts coming together harmoniously?
QUOTE: "As noted here by Bob Keller and noted by me on a post much earlier, K-Line's advertised stopped before the legal problems came to a heat. K-Line has been making cutbacks in some areas over the past few years: the toll-free phone number was dropped, the 4 motored Alco A-A's became 2 motored A-A's, the die-cast couplers on the Alco's were dropped, etc."
QUOTE: In my opinion, the recent Lionel postwar releases are ALL way overpriced, even at mail-order levels. $50 for a postwar 2-dome tank car with a sheet metal frame is highway robbery as is $60 for a depressed center flat car. The tooling and dies have long since been paid for.
QUOTE: Originally posted by mackb4 . . . Maybe all the train companies will realise the cost of their mistake and return shipping back to the U.S. like Dell computers have.But I told my dad the same thing you mentioned about the void of the K-line ads,and he had also noticed the same.Maybe the economy is hurting the toy makers too.
Collin ,operator of the " Eastern Kentucky & Ohio R.R."
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