>>1234028Ironically, at least the UK offers a rich contemporary rail environment to model, relative to US rail, with all the various different diesel and electric railcars out there in all those cool eclectic post-privatization liveries, not to mention all the legacy BR hardware like the 125s and 225s.
The problem with English rail modeling is that Hornby and Bachmann *SHOULD* be going the Kato/Tomix route and autistically churning out every single railcar variety of the past 40 years so that the young railfan of today can model a South London suburban layout with the Gatwick Express, Class 377s, and old networkers, or model Southern Scottish service with Virgin Pendolinos, Scotrail 380s, and the odd First Transpennine Class 185, or model MerseyRail, or model the East Midlands, etc, etc, etc, but instead they keep cranking out legacy steam because all the boomers want to do is model the 1930s. It's the exact opposite of the US model railroading industry problem, and it's every bit as shitty.
I'm an American, BTW.
