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Re: (erielack) N scale passenger cars

Henry, Frank and list;

Well, all-righty then... Sorry this news was not more to your liking. As for
these models, I think that they probably _will_ be incredibly detailed, not
to mention they come with lighting installed, among a host of other details
that are not often done in Braille scale...

If you all really want to see a Tavern Lounge car in N scale (or HO for that
matter), I suggest you take it up with Rapido. They actually wore several
paint scheme options that might make it more attractive to them for the
tooling costs.

Jim Harr





Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 12:14:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: "J. Henry Priebe Jr." <root_@_bluemoon.net>
Subject: Re: (erielack) N scale passenger cars

We've hashed this over before, but I just have to put in my two cents again.

I'm one of the little guys and at $47.95 each for an N scale passenger car,
it would have to be an incredibly detailed car that I absolutely needed to
complete a period correct train. I know street price will be a little lower,
but there are a couple of outfits selling pricey passenger cars in N scale
and they don't seem to be big sellers. I have been watched one "buy it now"
8 car set on ebay for over a month now that has been relisted $10 lower and
still hasn't sold at $23.75 per car. I may actually buy that set, I haven't
decided yet. I have well over 100 passenger cars in N scale and I don't
think I have yet paid over $20 for any of them. I'd probably go the brass
car side route before I'd spend $40 or more for an N scale passenger car. I
might spend $40 for a correct tavern Lounge :)

I'm glad that I already have over 95% of the rolling stock and locos that
I'll ever need in N scale as the prices continue to spiral out of control
for the average modeler. I can afford pricey models (I have bought brass in
both HO and N), but for double price models I need them to be really worth
it in some way. If they were $25 a car then I'd have no qualms, but at a
list of $47.95 they appear to be collector's items more than runners. 

Henry

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