What to say.  I'm a very young 67.  My parents bought me a used 4x8 Lionel train set for my 10th birthday and I've been involved in model railroading ever since.  My brother worked for the SP as a station master.  My aunt worked for the ATSF in the Barstow office and my uncle worked for the UP as an on board electrician during the transition from steam to the F-3 diesels. I showed the good sense to steer clear of making railroading my lot in life.  When I moved from Southern California to Southern Virginia, I became a railfan of the NS that passes by my home several times a day and night. I spent a few years living in the Feather River Canyon while the WP snaked it's way past my cabin at Tobin. I still have two HO steam passenger trains, one is a SP GS4 4-8-4 Daylight and the other is a ATSF Northern 4-8-4 Pullman heavy weight train. I'm a former member of the Los Angeles Model Railroad Society and to be quite frank, I watched too many guys my age kicking the bucket and their wives selling off the old man's trains for a penny on the dollar and I'm just not that inclined to follow suit.  I'm content to watch the big black stallions rumble by hauling 175 car coal drags and 120 car autoracks and occasional double stacks and mixed freights. To be honest, I've never figured out what the attraction is about trains today.  When I was a kid, watching a steamer race down the tracks was exciting, but that went by the wayside fifty years ago and I'm still hooked on watching the iron beasts.