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 Yesterday, I took the time to re-read some of my MR cpoies from the 1970´s. I took special interest in the ads I saw. Here is my resume:Most of the R-T-R stuff offered from the likes of AHM, Atlas, Athearn, LifeLike, Mantua et al. was fairly crude and toy-like, but cheap. Rivarossi in Italy seemed to be the only maker of "better" locos. There was a lot of brass around, with seemingly more importers than there are today. "Plastic" locos were in the range of $ 20 - 30 , brass usually exceeding the $ 100 . Doesn´t that translate into $ 200 - 300 and $ 1,000 + of today? Most of the steam locos available were USRA derivatives in many, not always correct, guises. Ah, well, and there was Bowser...In my opinion, today´s  market is much better catered for. Athearn, Atlas, Walthers Proto (ex LifeLike) are light years ahead of the quality they used to make, and BLI, MTH turn out well-engineered locos, even if we may not agree to the choice of prototype. The USRA range is pretty much covered and there is still the option to  do a little "bashing" to adapt the loco to the road of our choice.We will have to live with the fact that MTH and BLI will release those spectacular locos for collectors. Should not be a problem, if other makers start to fill the gap for those bread and butter workhorses we´d like to see!
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