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This is just my personal view. Whenever I see those big layouts with nicely weathered and detailed cars that have rigid trucks It just blows my mind. When you see these cars go around you can see them jump on switches and uneven joins like toys, like they are made of stone. On my layout all the cars have sprung trucks, I actually refuse to run a non-sprung one. They go smoothly, no jumps thus they look more prototypical. Where have you seen real cars jump like a cheap rigid wheel trailer? And sprung trucks reduce the chance of derailment too, which again I can observe on these show layouts. Train would derail like every ten circles, all those guys are doing is just stopping layout and rerailing. I have yet to have one truck come apart. Why would it? It is constructed with the same principal as the real one. Even better, unless there is a really hard derailment it won't come apart. And if it did come apart during derailment, well, have you seen pictures of real derailments and how the trucks look there :) Granted price of $6 for a pair is high, but it doesn't change the fact that rigid trucks make your cars run like toys from Toys R Us. Again, just my personal view.
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