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Does anybody besides me find it highly amusing that the guy who is taking shots on train set quaility was the same guy responsible for the New One line of Aristocraft die cast locomotives?  And I know whereof what I speak...My first HO "scale" (??!!) locomotive was an Aristocraft 2-8-0.  Ah the thrill of out of round drivers, missing parts, no quaility motors, christmas sticker type lettering!  Compared to those engines, Tyco was a Cadillac, and AHM a BMW.And in spite of it all, I'm still a model railroader and rather enjoyed the entire experience.  I think some people just like trains, and the hobby will be with us for some time.  I'd bet there are the same number of scratchbuilders and craftsman kit builders out there as there were in the 50s.  There's also a lot of guys who have great layouts thanks to todays high quaility RTR stuff who would at best have been armchair modelers back then.Model railroading will survive, tho in a different form than in the days of the Christmas train set.  Afterall we were supposed to die from TV, or was it slotcars?  We seem to be dealing with computers rather well.  Pretty lively corpse I'd say from the discussion on this board.JBB
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