I am 50 years old and live in Kaukauna, Wisconsin on a street once called conductor's row. Our homes were built in the late 1800's by the CNW for railroad employees. The CNW is long gone in this area and so is the local engine terminal. The homes yet remain. I started collecting and operating with MPC Lionel in 1981 when I was renting an apartment. It wasn't long before I met up with TCA guys, wrote off MPC as dimestore trash, and went on to collecting postwar Lionel for several years. Around 2000, I began to diversify my collecting into modern scale equipment and quality N scale with a little HO thrown in. Today my love is MPC Lionel. Mainly because they made a lot of neat stuff and I'm a 70's baby boomer who is living out the 70's I am between layouts as I am renovating this home. I do have a temporary grassmat playground. My next layout is on the drawing board and will be a multi-scale toy theme featuring O gauge Fastrack, HO, and N scale Unitrack. Blending it all into a convincing plan with interesting operation has been rather challenging.