What did a dollar used to buy? Each year, the answer is increasingly more than the present. The cost of model railroading has skyrocketed in recent years. R-T-R, pre-assembled models featuring detail never before imagined, and unique models of rolling stock make it an exciting time to be a collector or hobbyist, but this is also an expensive time. Price increases seem to come year after year with the re-release of each past product or with production of entirely new models.
Has the increasing cost of model railroading put your model railroad out of business?
Are you scaling back your layouts or purchases?
Are you being more creative in financing your collections?
Are your supplier decisions based more on price than in years past?
Let's discuss this issue.