Re: The Twelfth St. Louis Railroad Prototype Modeler's Meet
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With such a large crowd (662) it would be statistically meaningful to ask every attendee to give their current age and then compile an (anonymous) age graph of the distribution of ages. If done every year we could get a much better idea of the ages of RPM modelers, at least. It's been known for a long time that many people don't enter the hobby seriously until their 30s or 40s - once they start to "settle down". Even in the 1960's I think the "average" age compiled by Model Railroader was in the early to mid 40's. Tim O'Connor
My topic was one that has a fairly narrow appealmaybe i am wrongand what impressed me is how many faces I did not recognize listening. The conventional thinking is that our hobby is aging and therefore doomed. I don't see it based on the number of newcomers I see on a regular basis. I do wish I had included information for people about this list, and the Styrene and Resin lists.
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