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Mr. Stevenson, It sounds like you're thinking the way we did as kids. That is, "I have Lionel, he has American Flyer, the kid down the block has Marx." and none of them were truely compatable. As Nigel posted above, virtually everything is compatable in HO. From Life Like their Proto 2000 and Proto 1000 are good quality. From Bachman the Spectrum line is outstanding. The "toy type" lines from both of these companies are pretty shabby. I would suggest you decide what you want to model, i.e. what kind of railroad (today's big time main lines, 1950s rurual line, depression era steam powered railrod, etc) before you do too much shopping. See if there are other modelers in your area. Visit their layouts if you can. Find out what their experiences are with various brands of equipment, etc. I have locomotives from Atlas, Bachman Spectrum, Athearn, Proto 2000 and others on my layout. I use CVP's EZDCC brand of command control and have installed decoders (they go in the locomotives with DCC) from Lenz and Digitrax and use them together with no problems. We have the National Model Railroad Association standards to thank for all this compatability. Hence there is no need to restrict yourself to one brand. Welcome to the hobby. Boo on stress...hoorayyyy for fun! Cheers, Ed
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