@Tommy_F posted:<eyeroll>
Yep, all that stuff turned out with zinc pest and blown out circuit boards is so much better. Meanwhile all if my 40-50 year old MPC locomotives run good as new, and my biggest maintenance expense is the occasional $1.50 traction tire.
I rarely get annoyed at comments on the forum but this gets under my skin. 90% of the stuff was made using Postwar tooling and has superior decoration. It’s just back-in-my-dayism at its worst.
Amen, brother! I'll take that $1.50 traction tire and the occasional coupler repair any day compared to a $1,000 modern locomotive crumbling away with zinc rot. And think how much MPC that $1,000 could buy nowadays. Someone on a budget could get a lot of railroad to run!
