What dont you like about this hobby

[nachoman]

I have to agree with a few of the folks here, the cost of the hobby can be quite high. A section of code 83 flex at the LHS is now about $7.00 a section, I think I'm going to learn how to hand lay.

Once I buy ties, two pieces of rail, some spikes, I figure I pay about 2.50-3 bucks for 3 feet of hand laid track. While I have had fun and learned a lot doing it, I don't think my cost savings over such a small layout was worth the time invested. Let's put it this way, had I bought prefab track, I would have spent an extra hundred bucks, but all my track would be laid and ballasted by now