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[quote user="ATLANTIC CENTRAL"]And 15 years ago, in the information age? I had no problem finding out about and learning about better couplers, better track, better products and methods in this hobby at age 12.......in 1969........[/quote] My very first issue of MR was in 2014.  Somehow during the 1990s my family was able to afford a gift subscription to Railfan and Railroad Magazine (I have about 3years worth in my mothers basement), I had never heard of Model Railroader, I do not recall hearing about Railroad Model Craftsman either, though if I look back at those old issues, I might just find them.  I never got my N scale equipment to run well, so I boxed it up and switched to O gauge (due to previous poor experience with HO).  2006 was the first year I used the internet widely, and I did so to purchase MTH O guage trains (via their product locator).  Not everyone 15 years ago had high speed or otherwise internet access.  One of my supervisors at work said that when he joined the USN in 1997, people he went to boot camp with got their first pair of shoes at the age of 18 at boot camp (yes thats more than 15 years, but their are still people that poor in this country).  Not saying that they would go out and buy a train set.   [quote user="ATLANTIC CENTRAL"]But your experiance of not knowing about, or not finding out about, the more advanced modeling products is not really typical. One trip to a train show, One decent club open house, one decent hobby shop should have made it clear there was more to model trains than a cheap department store train set.[/quote] There are places in this country were you can draw a 200mi radius circle and not hit a decent hobbyshop, train show, or a local club.  I also got sold AMI instant roadbed by a hobby shop (50mi drive)...  For kicks I bought the Scenic Express product.
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