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[quote user="oldline1"]You forget that for that $75 you get to support the Enemaray's quest for standards periodically to keep the hobby in line.[/quote] Or get a manufacturer to fix the programming on their $100 sound decoder so that it works with all DCC systems. [quote user="oldline1"]Constantly running herd on the various manufacturers is a continuous job so they don't increase the size of flanges[/quote] NMRA has owns the RP and standards, manufacturers are free to make their own business decisions if they dont want their equipment to be compatable with all other manufacturers. [quote user="oldline1"]slip us some inferior plastic KD clone couplers [/quote] This is about your grandson's free train set,  you pointed out that this was an excellent train set, and my pointing out the Bachmann decided to save about .02 per car (the actual cost of putting their own better couplers on the cars) instead they went as cheap as possible and went with the plastic leaf springs.    Worse, they sell these same couplers as replacements.   I'm sorry I rained on your parade.  My comments are about Bachmann's business practices, not your grandsons train set specifically or that he got it for free. The NMRA sets coupler height only.  Does not specify any specific couplers for cars. [quote user="oldline1"]That price also allows you to spend your family vacation time and money to travel to an over-priced hotel far, far away[/quote] Nothing requires you to stay in the convention hotel.  I $119 a night to stay in a hotel that was right next to the rapid transit station for the 2015 convention.  I could have spent less, but then I would have had to drive around. [quote user="oldline1"]so you can be snubbed by the eletist snobs with their MMR Certificate tattoos who want nothing to do with you if you aren't in their cliques[/quote] I never saw anyone with an MMR tattoo.  I was too busy attending the actual clinics and tours (got to climb up in the cab of a Tacoma Rail SD70Ace and take photos of the service facility).  Mt Rainer Scenic railroad half of the trip was kind of filler, but it was pretty cool anyway.   I did get to speak with several of the clinicians between their clinics, but I had never met any of them before I went.   [quote user="oldline1"]OR............you could spent the same amount to get a subscription to MR for a year and be allowed to see Cody and Pelle assemble plastic kits and build roads every month and pay a lot of extra money for things you would otherwise be excluded from like MR Video Plus. OR...........you could spend the same amount on some railroad historical societies and get a good return or just buy some more needed equipment![/quote] Yep those are all ways to spend your dollars.  I personally like to do all three when possible, its not always possible.
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