Even the much vaulted Kadee cars do not have brake rigging as fine as I would like. Due to the nature of the material, sometimes it's not even straight - at least it isn't in their own pictures! Why should I pay more just to have to take it apart risking possible damage?
Jerry Glow
--- In STMFC@..., "Miller, Andrew S." <asmiller@m...> wrote:
My only objection to RTR cars is that they are driving kits off the market. I own several RTR cars. The last RTR freight cars I can
recall
buying were the Ertyl cars, when they appeared at various dealers'
fire
sales. But my dealer, along with many other will no longer stock
kits.
The volume of their sales is far lower than that of the RTR.
Perhaps
this is a good sign. Most Newbies, overwhelmed with all that they
need
to learn to become competent at the hobby, are probably quick to
seize
the opportunity to postpone the skills of kit building and
concentrate
on layout building. Eventually they may grow into this fascinating part of the hobby. So the dominance of RTR may be a sign of new
blood
in the hobby. I only hope that kits are still around when these
