This subject comes up often. The world has changed...l never had to hitch up a buggy (my mother did to get to school in 1930's) so l only have a passing interest in horses (KY Derby). I hung out at rural RR station in steam era ...now it is hard to FIND one. Would bet a lot of kids have never seen trains, except as long strings of anonymous graffitied high-cubes. Keith's story in adoption has a parallel....friends had a boy, wanted more..they adopted two, and she, (and the boys) all excelled...she is a corporate CPA , one adopted boy a managing Detroit auto engineer, who owns and flies planes, other a Frisco area computer whiz. None interested in trains, or their dad's vintage car. I'm a car nut, too, every kid l knew growing up was, today's kids, in service shop l was in recently couldn't drive my car. I had to move it around shop and test drive it! Shocked me! It is a fairly recent model. Every kid THEN had a train, too....
