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Ironrooster - I think you have a good point. I'm debating N scale Vs. HO scale - getting back into the hobby. One of the beauty's of HO scale, I figured, was I'd be buying Athearn Blue Box deisels, superdetailing, and having some nice loco's for cheap! I just stopped by the hobby shop and checked out some of the new $100 loco's. WOW. They look amazing. I don't think anyone could apply paint jobs / details like these new loco's coming off of the assembly line. It's as if the hand-crafting can not compare to the current manufacturing techniques. 50 years ago you could probably assemble a cool electronic device at home (maybe a radio, etc.) that would rival anything you could buy. These days, no home electronics guru is building any integrated circuit boards in their garage. If that's your hobby, these days you buy components and put them together. Is the same thing happening to model railroading? Maybe so. DCC, etc. is obviously that way. Interesting topic.
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