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I suspect that this will tick SOMEBODY off,...but I think (just as in all aspects of life) the people who get carried away with it give everyone a bad image. The "foamers" are laughably over zealous, and tend to paint the picture most non-fans envision when conceiving the image of a RRfan in their minds eye. You know the stereotypes: 55 year old foamer has taken over 3/4 of the basement with his model train set (ahem: "for the kids") The wife goes downstairs to find he has gouged a tunnel through the wall into her laundry room and the guy is scale modeling the powder river basin down into her Maytag, so she offeres an ultimatum "It's either me or the trains, but one has to go" And the guy, knowing this day would eventually come, pulls the passenger ticket out of his wallet that he's been saving just for this occassion, from the erie lacawanna passenger days....no less. [#oops] I guess I tend to fall somewhere inbetween #2 and #3.. Since most of the people I know tend to have a rather dim, skeptical view of anyone who is too enthused with trains... That tend to have an "Ahhhh,..a "train nut,..e'hhh?" type reaction......but I blame that on their ignorance, since it is a stereotype that exists in their minds rhat they are compairing me to. I usually wait until there is some tidbit of information that I can share with them that my interest in the hobby givess me unique knowledge over, they might be mulling over something while sitting at a crossing gate and witness a turbo stack fire or hear a flat wheel pounding as it rolls by, and they bother to exclaim out loud wondering what *that* is,..so I tell them, but in such a way that they don't think I'm obsessed, etc
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