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I'm in the "if you want it, you'll pay for it" camp. I'm not rich, and the few locos I now own are on the cheap end (highest was $240 for a BLI GG1), but there are a few things I'd pay top dollar for if I had it. One of them being a brass streamlined Dreyfuss Hudson with prototypically correct 20th Century Limited consist - I've seen the cars modeled in HO (doubt they're still available, and it was about $4,000 for the set when I did see them) and the loco modeled in O but I'd honestly like to have the entire train (including loco) in HO with a separate O scale brass loco as a mantlepiece. I realize this would be around $6,000 if bought new. If I had the money I'd probably pay it. Then I'd happily go back to my $100 plastic diesels and $5-$10 plastic cars for actually running. <br /> <br />I don't know how many others are like me but I would imagine most modelers also have some display pieces. And model railroad display pieces are like any other display pieces; I mean why pay thousands of dollars for an original portrait or landscape that's going to just hang on your wall? Everybody likes to have nice things for people to look at, and to look at themselves. Nothing wrong with it.
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