Reply to "Mike Wolf to retire and close MTH"

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@Nessmuck posted:
The Train hobby is an Old Guy thing....let’s face it. And we are dying off...like yester years Flathead engine. Today’s video games occupy the under 40 crowd...not model trains. But I will enjoy what trains I have....and haven’t made any new purchases in a long time....but my 14 year old nephew likes the hobby.

I agree for O gauge that we are older and dying off but disagree for other scales. I once asked a hobby shop owner what he thought the state of the hobby was (about 18 months ago) and he said “The hobby is doing great (accounting for all scales) but hobby shops are an endangered species.” His store did carry O Gauge as well as HO and N. Take it for what it’s worth but when you the see people at Trainfest and Amherst Society I find it hard to believe the hobby is going away.

6/9/2010:26 PM

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