Reply to "Pull out the MPC!"

Don McErleanOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

palallin : YEA! I am with you. See my answers to Arnold, just before your post. I think that we may have to recall that this a "hobby" which means many things to many different users and that for "hobby" / TOY trains MPC is a great supplier at what is today very modest cost. I can take my $75 MPC GP9 and run it till the brushes disappear then put it on the shelf and buy another. I can do this 20 X for the price of one modern Lionel $2000 top of the line diesel. Given that I am 77 and that my current GP9 has been running fine for nearly 50 years, doing this 20X is unlikely to happen. As I posted above, my 8351 Santa Fe Alco A which a the similar vintage as yours, which I just purchased for $40, runs great 47 years after manufacture and still pulls my little trains around my simple layout.

Don

1/17/2212:06 PM

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