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I agree that the diminishing numbers of Kits are a worry. Some of the discontinued kits are not being replaced by RTR versions, and the loss of Athearn's dummy locos is a bit of a nuisance (I tend to run one powered and one dummy loco when I operate carbody units like Fs or C-Liners, as I use Kadee permanent magnet uncouplers and using two powered units tends to result in one escaping!). At the moment, I'm frantically buying up the last few Athearn kits I need to complete my fleet before they go the way of the dodo. Units like their Dash 9 and AC4400 seem to be becoming the hardest to find in kit form - I spent a good few months searching for a CSX Dash 9 recently (finally found one last weekend). I'm not against RTR stock, Indeed, I have a few RTR items. However, for those of us on limited budgets kits make far more sense. For example, the Athearn Gunderson Maxi-3 5-unit double-stack container cars were priced at around £30 when they were last available over here. I've seen the info on their website regarding the RTR versions of the same model, which will supposedly be priced at about $80 - this will probably translate to about £70 over here. I'd rather have the kit and spend the money I save on containers to load it with! A tip for the person having trouble with the lack of pin-point bearing wheelsets in a RTR car - try squirting a little silicone spray lube into each bearing hole (you might want to disassemble the car to avoid getting it on anything else). This seems to help in similar situations, and it's cheaper than buying new trucks!
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