Art said:
> The first brass engine I lusted for was an HO 2-8-0 in Allied Models > in Los Angeles about 55 years ago. > > The problem was it cost $85.00 and I could not afford it! According to the handy-dandy inflation calculators, an item costing $85 in 1953 (55 years ago) would cost more than seven times as much today. http://www.westegg.com/inflation/infl.cgi came up with $648.78 Another such calculator came up with $694.00 http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl And the inflation calculator supplied by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis says the equivalent price today would be $686.37. http://www.minneapolisfed.org/Research/data/us/calc/ Proving once again that prices back in the "good old days" weren't so great after all. JR Hill ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
