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The Athearn blue box kits are a great value. I don't like the RTR kits because I have to open them up to add weight. I can add the weight as I build the blue box kits. I have yet to see an Athearn kit or RTR that met NMRA weight standards. Athearn is asking "stupid money" for the Genesis boxcars. Foreign labor is cheap so they could sell them for half of MSRP and still make money if they were not greedy. By the way, the Athearn steam locomotives suck if you have any grade at all on your layout. They are way to light, and they should have added power pick up on the tender. Oh yeah, I built a kit earlier this week.
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