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Why brass instead of resin?
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<P>I can honestly say that I am part of the problem. I don't want to build engines. I have built two so far and the time and money that have gone into them I could have bought painted brass and come out ahead. Not much, but enough to be able afford some of those nice Kadee OS 34' hoppers.</P> <P> For car kits, RTR or kit doesn't matter. If the kit is for my time period, it catchs my attention, and is for a Midwest road, I may purchase it, save tank cars. I hate, absolutely hate building tank cars. So if I see a nice looking RTR tank car for my period of course I will buy it.</P> <P>As for the crack about todays modelers being RTR more than modelers...I don't see a lot of ready made benchwork or larger Walthers or DPM kits being pre-built. Given a choice between car/engine kits and layout kits...I'll take RTR cars and engines over building kits. To me the choice has never been about being able to run my cars or trains right away, but a matter of resource allocation. Sure it costs me a little bit more for an RTR car than a BB car, but the time that I spend assembling umpteen dozens of kits I could have gotten two or three structure kits fitted and detailed and added to the already incomplete layout.</P>
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