@Lou1985 posted:This whole manufacture worship in 3 rail O is ridiculous. I wish it was more like other scales, where people bought what they like regardless of who the manufacture is.
Since O Gauge manufacturers chose to make competing operating systems, a lot of us non-electronics techs were forced to make a choice. Like my LHS advised me on the question of DCS or Lionel's command control, "Pick one, and stick to it". I did and happened to choose DCS. Part of the reason was I liked all of MTH's stuff I had purchased. Early on Lionel's length in business actually chased me away because I bought cheap cars with plastic trucks because I was buying new and used and didn't understand the variety of its products at the time. The "worship" for me is mostly with engines. K-Line, Lionel, Atlas O, Weaver all blend well with MTH stuff as I think most would agree. But, as was stated earlier, a lot of us have sizeable investments in MTH products and clearly their survival or tooling means a lot to us.
