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i dont buy the 'less affordable" argument at all....im going to do some consumer price index checking.....engine cost........here in Los angelest in the mid sixties adds for police and fire advertised starting at making 645 a month.....i wonder what an athearn engine cost.....( i wont tell you what we start at now, but unless the athearn engine is at least ten times costlier, the price hasgone down)) i say that we are getting more value for our money than ever..most of live better by far than our parents at the same age...how many of us struggle to buy ONE car? Im talking of Mid middle class folk now....how many own two or three vehicles? two or three TV's? But i digress......yes time is harder to budget than ever......witness the rise of prebuilt models....I think the best builders will still be the best.....but its much easier to have a 'pretty good" layout or scene because of ready made materials. Anyhow i wasnt totalllllly looking for definitive answers...just stirring the pot for discussion!
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