Reply to "How does the lower prices on modern used trains effect your buying of new trains?"

Rocky MountaineerOGR Forum Member

Originally Posted by scott.smith:

Define "modern"
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I am referring to the Modern Era Trains 1970-Present.

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This tends to track with the Greenberg definition. But given we're now approaching year-end 2015 in a few months, that's a 45-year timespan. The heydays of Lionel Postwar production were, what?, perhaps 15 years at the most?

The technology treadmill is moving too quickly nowadays to group so many "generations" of trains in this 45-year period. I don't know what the correct cut-off years would be offhand, but we should probably put MPC into its own era, followed by LTI, then trains made in Korea (TMCC-era?), followed by trains made in China (present-day Legacy?).

Not perfect... But it may help define when folks of today may consider selling something "older" in order to make room for their newest purchases.

David

9/17/1510:35 AM

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