06-16-2010, 10:13 AM
Russ Bellinis Wrote:Back then "kit builders" were looked down upon by "real"model Railroaders who built everything from scratch in O-scale. Today kit builders look down on the r-t-r crowd.
I can just see the article in 2034 - MR's 100th anniversary. The RTR crowd will be chastising the VR/Simulator crowd: "In my day we used to get our hands dirty opening the boxes and running the actual cars on actual tracks...! Sure, we ordered the stuff on-line, but we didn't run them on-line. We had to negotiate for actual room in an actual house dagnabbit!"
Andrew