Re: AP article on model railroading today...
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Old guys (like us, now) have been crying about the death of the hobby since I was a child. I read Super Bowl tickets cost more than $6,000. Is football dying? No. I think the average adult age of becoming an ACTIVE model railroader has always been in the 30-40 age range and the median age of modelers, while climbing, was in the mid 40's when I was a kid. I see a LOT of children and families at the Springfield Big E train show. And I see young modelers with some very impressive skills. And remember that it is a WORLD hobby - there are people who love trains all over the world. :-)
On 2/7/2021 4:57 PM, Scott Kremer wrote:
Get them involved in operations, which requires little to nothing, and you have a reasonable chance that they will come back to the hobby later in life. Get the ones who are involved in making plastic models to realize there is a lot of opportunity to make great models in model railroading and they too will stay involved. --
Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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