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200 bucks amonth! that must be nice. i'm lucky if i get 50 a month. I do 2 different layouts, 2 different clubs, and 3 different scales. most of money goes towards my HO layout becuase thats what i have the most of. Soon as i get all the track laid on it i'm going to divert the money to N scale. and the thrid scale is O scale, my mom collects it but i'm the only one that uses it. except during christmas. Anyways, what i would so is save up about 300-350 bucks and go to a hobby shop and just kind of browse around. i'd buy some track, an MRC power pack, and a kato, proto 2000/1000, or an Atlas engine. buy some cars, Athearn Bluebox are decent cars at resonable prices about 5 dollars. that track i would buy would be some Bachman Power lock stuff. (I have an oval of that for testing and breaking in good stuff, my layout is Atlas code 83 flextrack nailed to cork on plywood) Accurail cars are great too, a bit more expensive but worth the money. i have a 36 car unit grain train that is roughly 40% accurails and i don't usually have problems with them. if you find MDC kits those are nice too. If you don't want to buy Kits you can buy RTR(Ready to run) cars but those run about 20-30 bucks sometimes less if you know where to go. And this is not exactly a cheap hobby. My 36 car unit grain train with 3 engines is got to be close to 5 or 6 hundred dollars(100 for each engine, 3 20 dollar DCC decoders, kadees and metal wheels for the hoppers , plus all the hoppers) oh and [#welcome] to the forum!
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