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I'm a couple of years younger than you but am starting down the same path. I need reading glasses to do any detailing, model building, and often times for just plain reading (imagine that, LOL). It's frustrating, but most of my friends have to wear glasses all of the time (and not just under specific circumstances), so I have no room to complain and really should just be thankful. <br /> <br />Nevin, you might want to also give some consideration to S scale. It's not all American Flyer or tinplate (with all due respect to the tinplate hobby - I used to be heavy into collecting American Flyer.) That scale has really blossomed and in my mind is the perfect compromise - you get the benefits of size and mass (more like O) but the benefits of less space required (more like HO). I am heavily into HO and will stay there, but the S scale offerings are very nice. In the late 80's I bought 4 S scale brass locos (Big Boy, Challenger, FEF Northern, and GS4 northern) and they were sweet - making them hard to part with. The detailing was phenominal (much better than HO brass, if only because of size) and had real mass to them, yet they weren' t as enormous as their O scale equivalent. They were a thing of beauty. I wasn't into modeling then but had dreams of a layout someday. After a year or two I ended up selling them, back in the early nineties. Well, the modeling bug finally bit me again (had been out of modeling since the late 70's) just 3-4 years ago and I jumped into HO. I don't regret the HO decision, but the S scale is an ideal size with many advantages. You'd also be amazed at how much stuff is available in that scale these days (and I don't mean just brass.) They have several mfgr's and one who is the S scale equivalent to the blue box and RTR Athearn - I think they're called American Models. There are other fine Mfg's like them in that scale, I just can't remeber them since I'm into HO. Explore the options. I wouldn't overlook that scale as one of the options. Good luck and enjoy the hobby. <br /> <br />Greg
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