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RTR Is it me or is it truely crap?
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Hello everyone, <br /> <br />Last night while chatting with some friends of mine at www.railchat.com, we got into a discussion about the modern so called quality ready to run offerings now offered by those like Proto-2000, Athearn, and Walthers. As many of you have probably have read, I have been less than satisfied with them. My gripe is not the concept of Ready to Run equipment. As ambitious as I am, I probably need every Ready to Run piece I can get my hands on. However, every one of these new so called Ready to Run models I have bought have been defective in one way or another, often requiring nearly total dissasembly on my part to fix. [:(!]I one case, An Athearn 40' AAR Box car had the trucks put on upside down. [:(!]Other problems I have had have been grossly out of gauge wheel sets.[:(!][:(!] (Almost HOn3 gauge) Upside down couplers. Missing couplers, (Although due to the fact that everyone selling RTR except Kadee uses EZ-Crap and Accu-Crap couplers now that was a good thing. Kadee forever!) as well as other merely annoying problems like having the floor oriented the wrong way for the brake gear vs brake wheel alignment.[:0] <br /> <br />To me if a piece of Model Railroad equipment is supposed to be ready to run, it should truely be ready to take out of the box, set it on the track and it is ready for service. I should not have to conduct any of this repair that I have so far had to do.[:(!][:(!][:(!] So far the only people that consistantly reach this level of ready to run quality are those that offer pre-painted brass pieces. <br /> <br />Is this a pervasive problem with the model railroad industry that they can now offer substandard offerings merely becasue it can now be used right out of the box? [:(!][:(!][:(!][:(!][:(!] Or am I just one unlucky individual that recieved a truck load of wrotten apples?[:(!][:(!][:(!][:(!] <br /> <br />If my fellow model rairloaders can comment on this problem, it would greatly be appreciated.[8D][:D][8D][:D][8D][:D][8D][:D][8D] <br /> <br />Sincerely, <br /> <br />James R. Mitich
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