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Norm, I don't disagree that today's R-T-R is better than the brass of 35 years ago, in many ways. but I remember the brass of 35 years was just a dream for a majority of modelers, due to it's cost. <br />I could , and DID, buy a good used automobile in 1963, for the price of a brass articulated at that time. <br />I was just an apprentice at that time, and I could only afford to set aside about 2 bucks a week, at most, for my hobby.That,however, was about 4.5% of what I earned...a lot of people can't set aside 4.5% of their earnings for a hobby these days....I know I sure couldn't have, when I retired a couple of years ago. Due to the rising costs of life's necessities, there are, and will continue to be, less and less people who can afford to enter and stay in the hobby...especially if the lower cost kits disappear, and the old scratchbuilding skills become obsolete.The folks I see over at the Atlas forum who are accumulating dozens and dozens of high cost diesels as such models are released, do these folks now represent the modeling majority ? To me, they seem to have little or nothing in common with most model railroaders of yesteryear. <br />regards / Mike
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