For those that talk about the high prices of Williams products in recent years, I would not pay attention to the MSRP's that they show in the catalogs; They are absolutely absurd prices that make no sense at all, but from what I have seen, no dealers of any sort sell modern Williams at anything more than half the MSRP's in the catalogs. For example, any diesels that the catalog says are $4-500 a pop, I've never seen them offered for more than $250, maybe $300, whether it's a hobby shop, eBay, or a dealer at a show. And then of course, they can still be put on sale for much lower prices than that.
Based on the lack of new product in the past several years, I too am afraid that the Williams line is somewhere near the end, and it would be very unfortunate if that is the case. I'm not really a conspiracy theorist, but the fact that we only got a few new freight cars and E-Z Street stuff in the past few years doesn't go unnoticed. I also do think that some of the theories mentioned by other members in this thread about why Williams isn't making much new product, and just rehashing the same 5+ year-old stuff, sound plausible too.
