One can always invest in a lifetime of happiness with collectable low numbered imported brass models. The $$$ spent is up to your bank account. Of course, the mass produced HO brass that was imported during the last half of the 20th Century by Alco Models, Gem, Hallmark, and others, is a caboose of a different color.
Gads, just look at me. Don, please pass the Kleenex (Reg.U.S.Pat.Off.) box of tissues.