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Nothing wrong with Athearn at all. Over 50% of my loco collection is Athearn, and I'll be fitting DCC and directional lighting to these over the next few months. Top of the list are the SD9 that I started out with and the GP60 that's one of the best Athearn locos I have, the SD9 will be easy to convert due to the high hoods which will hide fairly simple lighting arrangements (basically an LED eash end and a couple of resistors). I'm intrigued by the idea of loco snobs, I guess we sort of have them over here - people who believe the only way to a good model is a brass/whitemetal kit assembled by soldering. The latest RTR models have given them something of a shock though - Hornby now offer RTR steamers that are as detailed as the best kits, run as well as a kit built by a professional, and cost about half the price. The kit manufacturers are now moving into more unusual prototypes to fill gaps in the RTR ranges.
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