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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by CNJ831 [quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by gbailey Actually, there is no proof that having a train set as a kid will lead folk to MRRing as an adult hobby. Exposure to trains during ones lifetime is a bigger factor, I think. That is what got me into the hobby - not the toy set I had as a kid. If AMTRAK shutsdown, the impact on the hobby will be far greater than the price of train sets, IMHO !!![/quote] George - MR have done endless surveys of its readship over the past five decades and these clearly indicate that interest in the hobby for the pre-Boomer and Baby Boomer crowd (the vast majority of today's hobbyists) stemmed from having Lionel or Flyer train sets as kids. Virtually every author's bio accompanying an MR article in the last decade indicates they got their start as kids with toy train sets. CNJ831 [/quote] You assume that the MR readership reflects the hobby as a whole.
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