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Huh, I didn't know I had to be one or the other[%-)] My profession tends to be technical to the point that it disallows creativity. Model railroading gives me an outlet for that creativity. So I guess that makes me a scenery person, a "liberal arts" engineer. Model railroading grew out of a lifetime of scale modeling for me. I am a stickler for accuracy of form, but applying the overall structure of accurate operations to something I do for relaxation and escape takes me in the opposite direction from that which draws me to the hobby in the first place. In it's simplest form, layout-building and the running of interesting trains upon it, are my way of hearkening back to a simpler time that I remember from my youth, recreating a world as I would like for it to still be, and sharing creative play with my young children. From that standpoint, my model railroads need no purpose or destination other than being an imaginative and visually interesting pastime.[:)]
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