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For me Tyco was a lesson. The difference between cheap and quality.I recall a commercial for thier Chattanooga Choo Choo. All black background with just the engine racing down the track. Boy all the kids just had to have one.The actual product. Well... it was a incredible example of marketing for it's own sake; a means to feed a company with cash until they can crank out a different box-o-crap.I dont have anything left bad to say about it except that money was wasted on this cheap trainset that could have gone into a nice Athearn Bluebox that had two flywheels, can motor of sorts and all wheel pickup.They say the hobby has been dying for a long long time. I dont see it. I see it pink, full of life and infused with vigor and flood of wonderful new widgets every month. Indeed I think we are in the best of times right now. Open a catalog and type a few numbers into a internet keyboard and have it shipped to you with a very good price.In the old days we had to take a bus to the store door, slog through a warehouse to dig up a box of trains, fight crowds, walk up hill both ways in a howling storm and learn quickly new ways of fixing things that dont work out of the box with these cheap toys.ESPECIALLY cheap trainsets deliberately designed around a short lifespan.Nowadays I walk past nicer trainsets. But feel a cold wind and pull my jacket closer.Now Ive seen or is seeing demise of companies that are ahem.. struggling to get products delivered. Ive seen the courts groan with burden of lawsuits that seemed to threaten the hobby with a crushing death blow. Ive seen once great products get reissued cheaply without the necessary electronics generating pain, pleas and supplications for help.But a dead hobby? Nah! It's only dead when you cart the whole mess to a roll off/on dumpster and have it shipped to the landfill and take up another hobby.
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