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QUOTE: Originally posted by smcrawford I'm not so sure tomorrow's O gager's are modeling HO today. The first reason I got into HO first was I bought into the myth that HO could be done on a 4 x 8 sheet of plywood and O couldn't. The second was I thought that HO still had playability. This was based on a book that showed quite a few TYCO opperating accessories. Sometimes I'm slow took me awhile to figure out that the reason I could not find any was that TYCO had gotten out of the market. I couldn't find anything like a culvert loader . Thor's site proved to me O could be done in a 4 x 8 space. From what I have observed non-train parents and train interested children are drawn to the busy playability of O at shows as contrasted to the modeling skill exhibited by HO and N displays where the only action is on the tracks. I still believe afordable, <$100, quality , expandable Lionel style O is what is required to save the hobby. I believe there is one part to the equation Elliot left out. He is right that if you place 1950 prices in terms of 2004 dollars. The prices do track fairly well. Where the difference comes in is income. I am convinced that if you are not making 10 times what you or your father was earning in the mid 60's you do not have the buying power he did. So while a 20 - 50 dollar starter set in the 50's may well convert to $150 to $200 2004 dollars the percentage of income used to buy the set is greater today than in the 50's. Some of the Fed Reserve web sites have CPI calculators that do the conversions and I want to play with them some more. This is just my [2c]. Take care guys Steve
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