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<b>(mainecentral229: Don't blame it all on Bush, Bill Clinton ruined our country for several decades. I'm surprised he didn't try to sell the U.S. to Mexico or something. I would be against the Gulf War II also, but we captured Saddam, and I think as soon as we did that we should have pulled our troops out and let them morons at the U.N. handle it.</b>) <br />To sum up what Bill Matthewson and others have said, the "hobby" part of our hobby is dying away. What's the average modeler going to do, custom paint and detail or buy a superdetailed model for $300 that's equipped with sound? How many of us scratchbuild structures or buy Walthers built-ups? (nothing against Walthers, they just make a lot of structures.) And now, who are we going to buy our models from, the Local Hobby Shop or Some big distributer like Trainworld or Model Expo who sell models at half price? In our country inflation has caused small companies to sell for more and large companies with the capital to do it, sell for less. I myself am partial to superdetailed models but if I ever would have enough extra money lying around, would I buy a brass model? No, I'd buy a plastic model with nice basic details and and superdetail it myself if I had the desire to. It like Terry Thomson wrote about in one issue of MR- start a progect now and then. Don't order that detailed to death Proto 2000 SD60M, buy an athearn Blue Box engine and detail it yourself if you have the skill to do so. I'm only 14 and so don't have a lot of extra money for trains, so I try to buy lower cost models when I can(if they're easy to detail or would look OK not detailed at all) And bigblow69, the one problem about "not buying products from China" now is that everything is made overseas. It would be OK if we could have a choice as to if we wanted to buy imported or domestic models, but that will never happen either. Maybe I shouldn't have focused on problem railroads have and focus on the problems MODEL RAILROADERS have.
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