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A lot of water has passed beneath the bridge since I first started to read MRR magazines and arm chair my lay out. The cost of the hobby is small in terms of the amount of enjoyment it provides, and how well you can budget toward your goal. I think John Allen equated the cost of his layout, motive power and rolling stock as close to that of a luxury automobile. He however spread that cost over a number of years, and a tail fin, bumper, door handle at a time. <br />The cost of anything worth while is always high, or it would worthless, Those who value what you have done may never let you know, and those who criticize do so for one of two reasons: 1) they offer constructive criticism, or 2) it is Thursday and you are their victim of choice. Learn from the first and put on the armor to stave off the second. <br />I am concerned with is the availability of inexpensive kits, both rolling stock and motive power, and the advent of the "perfect" RTR models. Perhaps I did not provide enough of a market for those items to be continued. Long live "Dino", the 0-4-0 Yard Goat from John Allen's whimsy. Didn't the Gorre start out as a 4X6 layout?
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