“To sum it up this is becoming a rich man’s hobby”
This is true if you want high tech electronics, but you can buy a rebuilt postwar transformer and a nice MPC engine and cars for a very modest sum. If the budget is even tighter you can pick up a Marx set and some used track and have more fun than a barrel of monkeys. I know a gentleman who is on a very tight budget, he brings ten dollars to a train show. He picks up broken Plasticville and maybe a Marx car or two. He always shows me pictures of his layout and it is beautiful. It was built from scrap lumber but you would never know it by looking at it. I truly believe he is having as much fun as the guy with the unlimited budget.
