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 Here we go again!The issue of quality pops up quite often lately - so it seems to be of concern to quite a few people here.Here is my experience.BLI - I bought a "refurbished" light Mike and was totally happy with it - no broken off parts, smooth runner right out of the box, sufficient detail, miserable manual. My BLI SD 40-2 bought new confirmed my initial impression. I installed Digitrax decoders in both locos.BLI and Digitrax receive [:)][:)][:)][:)]  out of 5Athearn Genesis - my MP15AC w/sound was not what I expected it to be. No broken off parts, sufficient detail, miserable manual - that´s OK, but the decoder? It had an MRC sound decoder that would not allow to alter the starting speed. A switcher with the acceleration of a Porsche is not what I wanted.Athearn receives only  [:)][:)] out of 5Bowser - I bought a Bowser/Stewart ARR F7A with sound. It came with the snow plow broken off. Although this required just a drop of CA to fix, I was pretty much annoyed. Sufficient detail, but unacceptable paint job and lettering. Without that excellent Tsunami sound decoder, the loco would have failed completely, due to the broken off snow plow, so Bowser makes [:)][:)] out of 5 for me.The don´t make them like they used to - that statement is, IMHO, not true. If you look back some 30 years and check the quality of Tyco, Mantua, AHM, in terms of detail and running characteristics, they were quite often  pretty lousy. Even pricey brass locos required a lot of tweaking to turn into performers.As I said in another thread, you get the quality which you are paying for. Don´t expect a $ 500 value for just $ 200.
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