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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by BigRusty Lots of interesting opinions. Think about this. The last steam engines disappeared from sight about fifty years ago. No one under fifty ever saw one run through his town. Passenger services ended about forty years ago. No one under forty ever saw a passenger train, or rode on one, with the exception of a few Amtrak and commuter routes. In the late fifties I built my son an elaborate AF 6 x 12 foot layout. He never became a model railroader. None of my four male grandchildren were given train sets. They are computer whizzes in their twenties now. A large percentage of respondents to polls shows that they are modeling the"transition period" when both steam and diesels shared the rails for a few years. Who are these people? Like me they are old enough to have lived through that era. And I'm almost eighty years old. It is therefore primarily a nostalgia thing. When we are dead and gone, where are the model railroaders going to come from? That leaves a few fifty year olds who are fascinated with Amtrak and the few freight railroads that exist in business. A lot of the rails have been torn up long ago. Where is the nostalgia in a Rails to Trails ROW? The baby boomer generation, including my two kids, are into ACTIVE endeavors, such as golf, hiking, you name it. They want to be doers not spectators. Where is the hobby going, slowly but surely down hill, until a relatively few hobbyists won't be able to support the remaining manufacturers. In other words they are in the running board and buggy whip business. Time marches on. [/quote] Since I am only 23 years old. If Model railroading really does go toes up. Looks like I get to buy stuff cheap. James
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