My brother and I were the only two out of 13 grandkids that really inherited my grandpa's love for trains. My cousins enjoy his G gauge stuff when it's set up, but we were the two that used to spend days at his house setting up and running trains while growing up (actually still do on occasion... 
). A couple of the great-grandkids took to the trains briefly but their interest seems to have moved on to "more current" toys and electronics.
My source of employment is as a mechanic working on the railroad equipment at a major historical museum here in the Detroit area. Our shop is relatively accessible to visitors who can see what we're up to from behind safety fences. Although a lot of people just passively look in, I've talked about trains with countless numbers of kids of all ages who still can't get enough of the railroad stuff both real and toy. The internet and social media seems to do some good also as I've had some surprisingly intelligent conversations with kids and their families about railroad preservation projects and things of that nature that they read about online.
