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Most are lone wolf; either they chose that existence, or geography forced it upon them, or they just don't know the good times of being with a group of friends working the layouts. I've done both and definitely prefer to be around friends. I help them with their layout and they help me with mine, we run on each others layouts. Life is better with friends in the hobby. Forums: I've been part of RR forums for about 6 or 7 years now (I've lost track). I started out with Atlas, after the company started its own forum and moved away from Yahoo or another like it - can't remember. I am busy on several forums. A nice place to go is to the guage forum and visit on chat at around 9:00 PM EST. You will meet others active in the hobby. When I first entered forums, I consider some members friends, but friendship on the net isn't the same as friendship in the flesh. Model Railroading is an incredible social hobby and if you can get into that side of the hobby you will be richly reward and occassionally frustrated, but the rewards are greater than the frustrations. If you want to become involved ask at your LHS about who to contact about volunteering at the next train show - they almost always need people. And the people who volunteer there, are the ones deep into the hobby.
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