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Re: [CBQ] Dave Beck's HO Scale S3 4-6-2 model.

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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Dave Beck's HO Scale S3 4-6-2 model.
From: "William Hirt" <whirt@fastmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 11:24:07 -0500
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For those interested in this subject (model cost, availability and production), I would strongly recommend reading Jason Shron's (of Rapido Trains) column in the August 2020 issue of Railroad Model Craftsman. He associates the cost of models being produced to the cost of lunch at the location they are produced.

Bill Hirt

On 7/31/2020 9:53 AM, William Barber wrote:
Nolan,

You have to keep things in prospective. When I worked in the local hobby shop in the late 1950s, we had PFM United USRA 2-8-2s, 4-6-2s and NKP 2-8-4s that sold for $49.95. At that time, I was making 85 or 90 cents an hour! Even after graduating from college in 1966, my starting salary at Electro-Motive Division of GM was $625.00 per month. You could buy a decent new automobile for $2000 - 3000. My wife an I purchased our first home in 1968 for $28500.00. It was a brand new 3 bedroom, 2 bath house in the Chicago suburbs. Wages and prices usually go hand in hand. The big change is technology. As someone else noted, those $50 PFM models looked nice, ran ok, but had no electronics, flywheels or even lights. They were strictly DC open frame motors and didn’t even come with couplers, just a mounting pad. Today’s models maybe brass or other materials that have been developed, have DCC control, sound, sometimes smoke , all kinds of controllable lights, highly detailed, road specific and run beautifully. So, while today’s HO models cost from $150 - 600 or more, the modeler gets a lot more right out of the box. Proportionally, today’s models probably don’t really cost much more, but you do get a lot more and kit bashing isn’t as necessary.


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