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Steam or Deisel .................Both Gauge modeled ................HO Age at nearest BD ............38 (not there yet, though!) Student , Working, Retired ...........Always learning, and working toward retirement Country............................................and city...(oh, country of residence?)...US Male or Female ...........................Yup! (at least I'm not in between!)...male Number of years in hobby .........Lost count DC or DCC, or Both ....................Both Track Code used .......................83 and 100 RTR , Kit, or Bash......................Mostly kit w/some RTR Size of layout ............................Not yet Shelf or Table Layout .............Not yet Number of locomotives ..........at least 12 with a couple on order Number of rolling stock...........?Haven't counted in years & have added some recently Foam or other ( scenery).........carpet (for Unitrack when I set it up) Sub base material ...................plywood flooring under carpet Table top construction ...........As above, carpet Well, I put down my characteristics, not those of the "average" Joe. I haven't yet built my layout, hence the "carpet" and "plywood" comments above. When I do get it built, I am planning to use plywood base with rigid foam on top at varying thicknesses for terrain. Scenery itself will be a variety of materials. I will be building in my 8x16 ft. shed, and will use almost all of it for my layout. I have a lot of stuff in boxes from when I was a kid, and that's why I don't have any idea how much rolling stock, or even how many locomotive I have. I also have two kids that I am working on to get them interested in the hobby, one boy age 11, one girl age 9. This should lower the "average" slightly. As for the averages among people I know, I would have to say that it's about 54 years old, all white males. There are only about five people I can think of that I know that are into this hobby, including myself. I am 37, two others are about 62, and the other two are about 54 or 55. It's interesting to see where this hobby has gone in the last couple of decades, but sometimes discouraging as well. It seems there is very little new blood, and that has prompted many of the hobby shops to either shut down or to remove the trains from their inventory. I can remember many local distibutors around the San Fernando Valley when I was a kid. Now there are only two or three that still carry inventory in HO scale, and a couple more that carry just O or just N scale. -Joe
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