Reply to "Kids and Model Railroading"

Brian LiesbergOGR Forum Member

I'm glad I'm not the only person that feels this way about the prices of model trains lately. I feel like pretty soon they will lose the interest of kids all-together due to these prices and then the model train business will be in real trouble.

P51; I too am into On30 (among other scales) and the price of cars is ridiculous, $45-$50 seems to be the average for 1 freight car, that means a train of just 6 cars cost roughly $300! Plus another $200-$300 for the engine. I find that On30 locomotives go for a decent price on ebay, my last purchase was a slightly used inside frame 4-4-0 for only $55!, thank god for ebay or I would have no trains at all .

As for the truck its a 43 GMC Deuce & a Half owned by my friend who restores vintage military vehicles from trucks, to an LCVP, to tanks. As for me, if you get Kaiser Willys Magazine, you might be seeing my 50' Cj-3a "lil' buddy" on the cover of the 2015 catalog ...

but I probably shouldn't derail ( train puns) my own thread.

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