Hudson J1e posted:Tom Tee posted:Sounds like many here need to attend a 2 rail 0 scale train show. The car prices are just a fraction of the numbers the major mfg. post.
One can acquire 4, 5 or 6 decent cars for the same amount of money as one new car.
"The future of 0 scale" is used equipment and 0 scale shows.
Bill Davis @ the Indy show frequently has scores of new Atlas cars in unopened boxes for 1/4 to 1/3 of regular pricing.
Heck in the latest issue of the O Scale Resource, Dan the publisher, showed pictures of boxcars for $2 and even a few for $1 that were seen at the Strasburg show.
I even bought 2 of those $1 cars - those were Atlas body shells w/o floors, etc. but for a $1 I can build a floor and detailed underbody pretty easily. But I really just wanted them for raw materials, mainly the doors, for other projects.