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Wall Street Journal Article - End of the Model Trains
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<p>Well, I put in my $.02 on this as a 28 year old. I personally know 3 or 4 people in the 30-60 age group who are model railroaders, who are not in a train club! How did I meet those people? I brought this years NMRA calendar to work and hung it on my locker/toolbox. Excellent conversation starter. Brick and mortar hobby shops may be on the decline due to the internet, the ones that are thriving do both in store and internet sales to keep product moving. The number of train layouts that exist out there is staggering. The prices do keep going up, and yes it does take a while longer to be able to afford some of the niceties. The hobby is far from dead, you just have to know where to look. A guy my girlfriend went to high school has a 5 year old that can hand lay track better than I can... To say that kids aren't interested in trains anymore is a little off the mark. Think about how you got interested in trains? For me, it was watching a video of N&W 1218 run south from Cincinnati, Oh to somewhere in TN over and over at a young age (kind of like brainwashing I guess). My parents figured out quickly that I was transfixed by trains running down the track so a spent many a day watching train videos while my mother was cleaning the house, etc. </p>
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