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I went to a model show here in the UK last weekend, I checked out one of the traders who specialises in US trains. Appart from Branchlines and half a dozen very tried looking Accurail and MDC boxcar kits the entire rest of his stall was RTR. <br /> <br />It doesn't take a genius to work out why: a Branchlines Yardmaster boxcar kit costs £6.50 and a Kadee assembled boxcar £25. I would warrant a guess that it doesn't cost nearly 4 times the amount to assemble the parts ... For this reason I don't think that simply not buying RTR products will solve the problem. <br /> <br />I agree with some of the sentiments expressed here, and go a little further, I simply don't understand why you would want to buy RTR items when you can have the satisfaction of putting a kit together, then perhaps making detail modifcations along the way to end up with a unique model.
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