@raising4daughters posted:You're right, we don't really know but it's fun to speculate. One thing I do know is that in in the long run, supply and demand will come into balance. At the moment, and I stress AT THE MOMENT, the Rail King line appears in jeopardy. If that's truly due to lack of demand, it will naturally disappear; if it's not due to lack of demand, I'm confident something will appear on the market to take its place.
I wonder if your hunch is correct about RailKing since I think many new entrants into O are more enamored with scale or very close to scale sized items.
The only items from the RailKing line that interest me are the scale diesels with 4-wheel trucks that aren’t also offered in Premier. I think this is limited to the ALCo RS-1, RS-27, EMD SW-1, SW-8/9, SW1500, NW-2, and MP15DC.
I also enjoy collecting the RailKing ore cars and 3-dome tank cars, and single dome (not modern) tank cars, again as these are mostly scale sized for the early 20th century and look great mixed in with 36’ woodside reefers and 2-bay hoppers.
