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<font face="Garamond" size="4">Modelers have always complained about what they think is the high cost of modeling. Just find some old magazines from the 50's 60's 70's 80's 90's and look in the readers forums. Man, when Model Railroader went up from 50 cents to 75 cents a copy they squealed like stuck hogs. <br><br>My neighbor races old beat up dirt track stock cars chasing a plastic trophy and $25 cash for winning. He spend $6 a gallon for racing fuel and $4000 for a motor that may run 3 hours. A $400 BLI locomotive that will last a lifetime and run on 8 cent a KWH electric sure sounds like a bargain to me. How about the hunter who buys a $700 rifle so he can get up at the crack of dawn for a week to try and kill $250 worth of meat nobody likes but him. "Hey Fred, want some more of that deer jerky" he says. What's a Bass Boat cost? How about a snowmobile? Hell, a model car cost $15, and you don't even get glue or paint. <br><br>Maybe we should take up video games, my boy spent $400+ for an X box2 that won't even work without a TV and an $80 dollar game. And it has been broke and sent back twice for $100 per time already. Yep, them video games that are killing model railroading sure are cheap. <br><br>Maybe whe should take up beading, but man, have you checked them prices for plastic beads lately. Ain't just the model railroad </font><font face="Garamond" size="4">manufacturer<b> </b></font><font face="Garamond" size="4">getting rich, hell, some of them bags of beads are $3 for about 10 little plastic beads. We couldn't even afford to pay them Indians in beads for Manhatten today </font><font face="Garamond" size="4">at these prices.</font><font face="Garamond" size="4"> Fred</font><br>
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