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Certain items on a railroad come in kit form, but has anyone noticed that almost all of the rolling stock has become ready to run? I'm not against having a selection of rolling stock that came built up already, but the kits were just so much a part of the hobby just 15 years ago. I remember when i was a kid, i used to love running my trains in a circle, but i learned so much of how they actually work when i built a car kit myself. When i got my first job, i used to save up and buy 3 or 4 athearn passenger cars at a time. I always thought that assembling the cars were just as fun as watching my new kit roll down the tracks. it just seems like there are too many manufactures that just sell the R-T-R models. Over the last few years i have found it very hard, cryptic almost, to find kit form models for sale in stores or even on the pages of the internet. And on top of it all, when i do find a kit form car, they are expensive. Just one example would be cars from branchline blueprint series. The cars they offer are excellent models, but are they worth $40? You could buy a R-T-R car for that much. I'm not saying that i cannot find any cars in kit form. I know that accurail for one still offers a large selection of kits. But athearn seems to be phasing out their kits. ...And alot of the kits that you find today are almost two times more expensive than comparable kits of a few years ago. The only thing i'm wondering is where have all of the budget kits gone???????AND WHY???????
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