Thanks for sharing the Hobbytown build. Yes, they are open for business. That drive will get more and more smooth as the gears break in. I love these beasts.
Personally, I like my HobbyTown kit better than anything from Scale Trains or Rapido because I built the loco myself from the ground up. Locomotives are now approaching the $500 CDN price point; that's a top-of-the-line DCC/Sound ScaleTrains model (including tax). Nope, I'm done with pre-orders and done with spending BIG money on locomotives. Hopefully more modellers put their 'foot on the brake' and push back against high prices. Enjoy what you have OR think outside the box and buy something cheaper, i.e. a HobbyTown of Boston kit. Boo to "inflation" !
You are preaching to the choir. I've been collecting for a number of years almost exclusively on the secondary market (eBay, train shows mostly). I've got a substantial collection and I'll bet I've paid maybe 15 to 20% per locomotive, of what a brand new train costs. If you go for models from the pre-plastic era; diecast metal bodies, metal components, they are almost always either running or easily able to get running. They are from a time when things were built to last...and, brother, have they ever! We're talking models that are 60, 70+ years old. Hobby Town is one of the very few makers of those kinds of trains remaining. They were all built to be easily worked on and modified. And they will pull everything in the yard out of town.
Thanks for sharing the Hobbytown build. Yes, they are open for business. That drive will get more and more smooth as the gears break in. I love these beasts.
Personally, I like my HobbyTown kit better than anything from Scale Trains or Rapido because I built the loco myself from the ground up. Locomotives are now approaching the $500 CDN price point; that's a top-of-the-line DCC/Sound ScaleTrains model (including tax). Nope, I'm done with pre-orders and done with spending BIG money on locomotives. Hopefully more modellers put their 'foot on the brake' and push back against high prices. Enjoy what you have OR think outside the box and buy something cheaper, i.e. a HobbyTown of Boston kit. Boo to "inflation" !
You are preaching to the choir. I've been collecting for a number of years almost exclusively on the secondary market (eBay, train shows mostly). I've got a substantial collection and I'll bet I've paid maybe 15 to 20% per locomotive, of what a brand new train costs. If you go for models from the pre-plastic era; diecast metal bodies, metal components, they are almost always either running or easily able to get running. They are from a time when things were built to last...and, brother, have they ever! We're talking models that are 60, 70+ years old. Hobby Town is one of the very few makers of those kinds of trains remaining. They were all built to be easily worked on and modified. And they will pull everything in the yard out of town.
Where'd you find a Hobbytown drive.
Just google 'HobbyTown of Boston'... they're still in business.