@Don McErlean posted:dogdoc and others...I have to say, despite many opinions to the contrary, that MPC remains,esp for the small operator, a fantastic buy. I just left a train show in Plano Tx and as you can imaging there was lots of MPC for sale. When you can get box cars (new in box) for $15-20, switcher locomotives also nearly new for $75 and I got a really neat chemical tank car ("White Pass") with die cast frame and fully sprung die cast trucks for $10. I tell you that you can't touch these prices with the modern stuff. OK its not as prototypical and it doesn't make noises or talk and yea you have to put up with the "e" unit but hey...these are hobby items. Anyway I like this stuff because it makes for reasonable cost hobby fun.
Don
Agree completely with your assessment. One correction: the White Pass tank cars were cataloged in 2013, a long time after the end of the MPC period, but the mold is the same. Like many of these from the MPC period, this is an 8,000 gallon tank car. A lot of folks don't realize it, but - although they seem compact, they're actually scale in size.
