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I feel that Ready to Run has its place in the hobby and am glad after years of Bachmann, Tyco, and Life-Like hell that quality ready to run pieces are being offerd by people like Walthers, Spectrum, (Interestingly a division of Bachmann!) and Athearn, (Though for some reason ever piece of Athearn RTR I have orderd has been sub standard. But with my discussions with other modelers I am told I must be extreamly unlucky as all of theirs has been red leter perfect) I feel that Ready to Roll only leads to a limited satisfaction of you are truely modeling. You may just want to run trains and Ready to Run fills your needs completely, Thats fine, Even Great, What ever floats your boat. But for me, If there is no modeling involved. Even the ritualistic assembly of a Basic Box Car kit, I feel what's the point. Its just a piece of plastic I took out of the box and set on the track. ANd it wasn't much fun. For me model railroading is the fun derived from going through the process of building things. Not running things around on fancy circles of track. (What I consider the new Chicago Museum of Science and Industry layout to be) As for my layout, While I hope it to be operational, so that I can show freinds and family and one day the public the fruits of my laborings. If I never truely get there. I' wont be all that upset. As All the fun I had building the models on it is what the hobby is about for me.
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