04-17-2009, 06:18 PM
Russ Bellinis Wrote:I think you are right, except your math is a little off. I think most modelers like to model the trains they were interested when they were first old enough to recognize a train. That would probably be somewhere between 5 & 10 years old.
Some, maybe even many, may model the railroads they saw during their childhood years. And I am aware that you wrote "most", not "everybody" or "almost everybody".
But I am still not sure if I would go as far as to say "most", though. The 1950s is popular among many, also people who were born after the 1950s. I suspect that quite a bit of the popularity of the 1950s (also among people who were born later than the 1950s) was that the 1950s was pretty varied (railroad wise) - steam and diesel, lots of what is now fallen flags, still lots of short cars, short trains and small customers - which are easier to model on a home layout than 105-car unit trains and enormous double stack container trains.
Grin
Stein, born 1965 in Norway, but models 1957 in Minneapolis, not the 1970s in Norway :-)