The new stuff is pretty much....insanely priced. That's probably the best word I can use.
But you can get nice, LN TMCC scale Steamers for 500 bucks or less. You can now get early legacy scale steamers for under $800 now.
And you can see the used stuff run a lot of times....and not deal with today's QC issues.
Great time to be in the hobby, IMHO.