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phillOGR Forum Member

I don't know exactly how much labor goes into an Atlas or MTH unit but cost are up as the Chinese workers demand more for their labor. Soon material, labor, transportation, and tariff cost will be high enough to bring back production to this country. Saw a story of a furniture co. already make the move.

But still the cars are going to be expensive in O and one will have to grin and bare it. O I find is special compared to HO where I just bought to own STUFF, as I could. Now I have to be really selective and don't overstep my budget. I carried my HO philosophy into O for the first few years and bought just to own. Now, I am lucky if I buy 3 or 4 cars a year. Heck that is 40 cars in 10 years and I have 140 already in the closet and should start the cull as I won't take that many from their boxes, ever.

But first I need to rid my HO collection. Iam bad at posting bids and such on Ebay and photos are even worse. Will have to look at this forum's for sell site.

Phill

2/11/121:04 PM

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