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Sheesh! What do you want? I just finished a nice little N scale layout, about 30" x 60", all Peco points (turnouts, whatever you want to call them), mainly Atlas flex-track with some Peco, a motorised turntable, 2 stall loco shed, and lots of scenery. Total cost? Well, I would estimate around $600 - everything was purchased second-hand with the exception of the Atlas & Peco flex-track. All the turnouts are second hand, I built the turntable using a second hand Peco one that I got for $4.95 and a 5.25" disk drive I got for nothing out of the garbage! It has taken my daughter and I with some help from my wife nearly twelve months to do it. But we get to spend lots of time together and we are all learning lots of new skills. Do a realistic comparison of prices, hours worked to produce the income to purchase the product. I think you will find that whichever way you look at it prices have gone down in real terms as quality has inmproved. In 1974 I purchased a Minitrix loco which as I recall took about 6 hours of income on my salary at the time, now I can get a similar Atlas product, with DCC factory fitted, for about 1.75 hours. But then I dont buy $80 dinners, I prefer the $40 ones, they save money for playing trains. I don't have a big home theatre system in the basement, darn it, I dont even have an LCD TV! I don't have an SUV, instead I have a four year old Pontiac Sunfire, I don't live in a big suburban house either, but I do have time and money for what makes the three of us happy. I can afford to stay in this hobby because I enjoy it and I want to be in it. John
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