Reply to "MPC Era Lionel Trains?"

Just reread these posts and I agree with many of the comments. And many MPC engines ( already mentioned-the GG1s, FM, later F3s, etc.) were reasonable quality and most ran right-out-the-box-so, as many have already said, they were "fun" and rarely anger producing. Also, for us nit-picker collectors, there were some interesting variations among, for example, the 9200 series boxcars and others. So, IMHO, they were a nice follow-up of the holy-grail and bridge into the more modern Lionel.