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I have been a conventional holdout,despite all of the buzz going on about the new stuff.To me,the newer trains just don't have that"magic" to me that postwar and prewar trains somehow seem to have. I can work on my older stuff and fix it if something goes wrong or just wears out,and the postwar trains make their own LOUD Clickity-Clack Sounds,whether you want them to or not.

 With the newer trains,most people I know that run MTH or Legacy trains are either sending them in for warranty work,or taking them to authorized repair centers because of one problem or another.To me,it seems these new trains look and perform best at slow speeds,and I really like to "HIGHBALL" my stuff,and I am not impressed with the new trains performance at higher speeds.

And while I too am impressed by the sounds and new fan driven smoke units on the new trains,I am not impressed enough or financially well off enough to spend 2 house payments on a single engine,that does basically the same things my postwar trains do.If I retro fit one of the new smoke units into one of my postwar trains,now that would be cool,but probably not as fun as getting that postwar smoke unit heated up,and dropping in those wonderful smoke pellets that have that feature that new ones don't:They even SMELL like a Lionel train!!!  

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Don't take me wrong,command control and new features have injected new life into a dying hobby,and probably saved it from being a thing of the past.

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To me,that's still where the magic of Lionel trains is at!!!And the lower prices are just a bonus,allowing me also to obtain nice examples of items that I never could afford before the prices started going down.