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Hudson J1e posted:

Hawkshaw posted:

This is very scary stuff. Makes me nervous about buying without having it in hand to look over. Thanks for everyone bringing this up.

But even if you have it in hand and it looks good how do you know it won’t crumble apart 6 months or a year later?

You don't!   I never have been much of a gambler so that's why I stopped gambling on modern era train items, in particular die-cast steam locomotives.