Years ago there was a cartoon in MR depicting a woman at the door of a cabin speaking to her husband while a “bumpkin’” son sat in a rocking chair with a blade of grass clenched in his teeth and eyes closed. She was saying, “I’m so happy Clem has a hobby; he’s modeled an abandoned railroad.” In front of “Clem” was a small display with a locomotive buried in over-growth. DPayne
