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Seems to me that on the one hand, the mainstream of this hobby is what you call runners: people who have a layout or access to one, and enjoy running trains on them (regardless of level of operating realism). Most runners are not PRIMARILY modellers although we/they will do basic scenery and strucutres to make the running more interesting and, as mcouvillion remarks, how much RTR is truly RTR. On the other hand, most of the "flagship" model railroaders are primarily modellers (there of course are exceptions). All the evidence I have is that for better or worse, they are a pretty small minority. So as Tatan remarks, its hard to segment into neat buckets: few runners do no modelling, and few modellers do no running. The number of "pure" collectors - people who do no modelling and no running - I think is very small and limited mostly to a segmenet of the brass market. But the percentage of both modellers and runners who also collect I think is quite high if you will accept as the definition of collecting, the purchase of models (usually locomotives) that are excess to your requirements and will as a result be infrequently run.
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