--- In [email protected], "Andrew_Malette" <an...@...> wrote:
> here's the one concept that is most foreign to the youth of
> today, PATIENCE.
Today's kids still have patience they just don't see trains enough to be
inspired by them.
I just spent a weekend baby sitting my grand kids and one girl spent a whole
afternoon solving the path thru an intricate video game and the other sat at
the kitchen table and cut out and glued up an extensive cardboard fashion
wardrobe for her cow doll.
When I was a kid the local SP yard was still in business and I could go watch
trains, climb on the cars, and thanks to some friendly SP employees get cab and
caboose rides so I naturally became a model railroader. The old yard is now a
low income housing development with the kids sitting around in apartments
trying to stay clear of the gang culture and the chances of them being inspired
by the trains long gone.
The kids that today become modelers are gonna be those living near an active
mainline or a rare thriving industrial area, the trains still inspire they are
just harder to see, and since modern railroading is mostly longer trains the
smaller scales will probably be the natural choice for the new kids and there's
nothing wrong with that.
We oldsters will still do our thing with what we already have and what we can
get and will figure out how to make it all work. The kids have enough challenge
for the future without the burden of supporting our segment of the hobby :>)
....dave
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