palallin posted:Hot Water postedLastly, in my opinion, the vast majority of the people coming from all over the world for this "Big Event" are NOT model railroaders nor toy train collectors.
But they ARE interested in trains, which could make for an excellent opportunity to expose them to model/toy trains and thereby perhaps make some of them into model railroaders or toy train collectors.
Yes I agree. My local club that I am in has been trying to that for a long time and when it works it works. Also, one of the major things to do to try to get people interested is by going out to the people.