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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by CBQ_Guy [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by rsn48 I'm glad this question was asked. I thought this forum was skewed to a younger modelling audience - now I know. This is not intended as a value judgement, just an observation. [/quote] I agree, so now that there's such a large number of younger people here. We older guys keep saying how the younger people won't be able to afford getting into the hobby because of the wildly rising prices on all the RTR stuff, high cost DCC systems, lack of kits, etc. So what do you say? How are you "yutefull" people managing it? Expecially teens and students on limited incomes? (Looking to learn here, not to start flames . . . necessarily!) [/quote] I buy an awful lot of trains and have a basement full of stuff. The reason I have as many trains as I do is because probably 95% of my trains have been bought used. The only new trains I buy are the President's Choice train sets that come out each year here in Canada (see the thread I started on them) and the odd cheap freight car. I'm able to find many amazing bargains at antique stores, pawn shops, flea markets, garage sales, etc. If I bought all I have brand new I'd be dead broke many times over. Besides HO, I also have prewar and postwar O and S gauge tinplate trains, which obviously can't be bought new. Also, having generous parents helps a great deal!
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