Reply to "Glory Days of our Hobby"

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@CALNNC posted:
.....But one thing is for sure, a kid with a paper route today, like the one I had when I was 12, will not be buying a $9.95 Athearn HO GP30 in kit form, and will have to save a long time to buy a $70 MTH or Menard's O gauge box car....

Your post made me nostalgic for the days circa 1971 when my brother and I rode our 3-speed bikes the 5 miles up to Two Guys Department Store on a warm summer day. There they had a wonderful hobby section where I could carefully pick out a freight car for maybe $1 or $2 each and a little switcher like AHM's Docksider or Plymouth MDT for $3.99, unless my memory is more faulty than I already know it to be. True, the quality was not what it is today, but the hobby was accessible to us kids.

John

6/2/239:36 PM

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