BIGAL, you are such a pessimist!!! S is not dying any faster than the whole toy train hobby. The problem is that the people who love "Toy Trains" are dying.
At 72 I am one of them that can see the end of their rails. With this happening I have to believe that the toy trains we leave behind will find new hands to play with them. I am a member of most every Flyer and S Gauge group on Facebook. There are a lot of people out there in these groups more than write here. And yes a lot of them are younger. There is a future for Toy Trains!!