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Dont worry about the price tag on the stuff or the income you make. Athearn I considered a part of the hobby like the old Varney, Trainmaster and Cox used to be. The roster on my table (next to, under, around and nearby) includes probably half are Athearns. You will find a cow and calf on my link below that is almost 20 years old athearn and still running. I am just finishing up about 30 Athearn boxcars with the weights and metal wheels. Some are mantuas and roundhouse as well. Once calibrated at the couplers I would have no problems putting the Athearns on anyone's layout and they will perform as they should. I buy and sell on ebay and when I see athearn cars come in using metal wheels, bolster shims, kaydee couplers and perhaps even trucks and weighted from other modelers who evidently took as much pride as I do in thier models. I say let them blue box trains roll. Now. Ready to Run rolling stock has gone up in price and I do own a percentage of them only because I am a coward and too wussy to pay retail for them. I am willing to hunt for sales on RTR. I consider the Athearns a good way to bolster your rolling stock. Otherwise the money will get misspent in Alcohol and who knows what else. Also the one thing that I like about the Athearns is that they can take the big drop to the floor during a really bad wreck (OUCH!!) and with a few moments of workbench time be back in service. Some of th finely detailed RTR probably will not survive such a catastrophic event. If you like it, run it. Dont worry about anyone who says different. Heck I had a tyco trainset that was just plain junk as a child but I had the attitude of running it with others who may be running the finest brass. Just never did get to run WITH the brass he he... but different can of worms.
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