My son always liked trains when he was a kid but what he wanted to play with first was rockets, until we found he practically had to leave town to shoot them off. He switched over to RC cars and he still races them almost every weekend. It's not uncommon to be at his place and watch him fly a small drone around the room.
We've always lived along the east coast and as far back as I can remember tracks were being abandoned for routes farther west and out of the more populated areas. I'm not sure when the last time he was in a car that had to wait for a train crossing. I have to keep reminding myself that his experiences growing up were different.
