Reply to "Is the Golden Age of Model trains now considered over?"

I think there was a prior discussion what to call the last 25 years or so... the movement to realism and scale, digital control improvements, a variety of offerings. Perusing old issues of OGR, it seems there were so many dealers, train manufacturers/importers and ancillary industries that supported the market during the mid to late 90’s through mid 00’s. It’s interesting to see the contraction over the years. Id have to say it was more a modern era.