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Most parent won't pay the price of trains today for their kids. You can get some good prices if you shop around. now think about it, I can remember seeing toy trains around almost every christmas tree, and train sets were in every store with a wide selection. That was part of the tradition. In the last 8 months I went to three train shows. The first two were small but had good prices. The last one was not that much larger ( the great american train show ), But the prices were high. One guy inflated is athearn blue box three to five dollar more. He kept telling everyone that the reason was that Athearn was discontinuing the blue box athearn kit. I never heard about this, and I hope not. I didn't buy from him. I didn't buy much at the show. Really the spot to buy is the internet. Many friends I know on the hobby tell me that they go to the hobby shop to look at a product then order it on the internet, saving money. It seems that the suppliers in the hobby want to get all the money they can now, and take the hit later when the interest declines. Not caring about there survival in the future or the hobbies survival. Tony <br />
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