Eddie Marra posted:All well and good, but I'm not interested in paying a thousand dollars and above for a locomotive that will fall apart, when I can get a Postwar locomotive that's lived through falls off tables, collisions, mice in attics, Rock and Roll and the Bossa Nova, still be fully intact and run after a standard servicing - and not break $100 - $200!
Even lived through disco!
Anyway, the zinc pest problem and short-lived electronics full of proprietary parts is one reason that I like the older two-rail stuff. For example, this FM switcher is over fifty years old and has no real problems: