Postby chuck » Thu Apr 20, 2017 6:21 pm
Personally, I liked Williams before it became Williams by Bachmann.
Those were well built chassis that were a good deal for what you got. You could kitbash to your heart's content and not feel the least guilty about "wrecking" a "precious gem" of a product or "damaging" the non existent details. These were trains that were close to original PW in that you could literally kick the sh*t out of them and they would still run and you didn't need to take out a second mortgage to buy them.
I used to like MTH when you could buy a DCRU and a basic horn/whistle/bell. Since they went to PS-2 and PS-3 I've only purchased a couple of subway sets with "LocoSounds" in them. I refused to pay extra money for stuff I really didn't want or need especially when it was a royal PITA to fix when something did go wrong. I'm not into gutting and reselling either. I will gut but the parts go into the spares bin.
Now that WBB has "added" a new and poorly done sound system and doubled their prices as well I think I will be looking at the second hand market for anything else I may want.
Once I built a railroad, I made it run,
Made it race against time.
Once I built a railroad, now it's done --
Brother, can you spare a dime?