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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by TA462 If you want to pay for very accurate and detailed trains then you pay for them. I agree with the poster that said a lot of things are made in limited runs. I've got some drop end gondolas on order in ONR colours that are almost 40 bucks a piece. Huge amount of money and way over priced but the thing is only 50 of each road number are being produced. I either pay or I lose out. The Athearn Genesis 60' Gunderson TTX box cars is another example, the demand for these is great but the supply is dried up. Athearn should have made more. Same goes for the Bulkhead flats Athearn made in RTR with the pipe loads, second runs are now out but hard to find. I've been finding that in the hobby shops I go to all the new stuff that comes out is snapped up right away while sitting on the shelves is old stuff that has been there for years. I think thats why newer stuff is more expensive nowdays, less produced and greater demand. [/quote] Too expensive. Even if they did make them availible in a greater production run I would not want to purchase them. The best I can do is hope to secure a copy on ebay after about a year when they seem to flood the market on the web. I appreciate the workmanship and nice quality of the makers' efforts to produce models in demand. However.. The constant limited runs on everything except metal wheels and kaydee couplers has been going on way to long in HO. Enough I say. I do have one engine on order that probably is already sold out before it left the drawing board. But I see myself purchasing less and less pre-orders "On demand" from the makers while reading increasing volumes of data on new stock being released that requires a deadline for a purchase. I'll wait for ebay to pick up the slack in the hobby.
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