Fellow forumites, maybe there's hope. It's finally happening.
4014 is doing what most of us didn't think was possible -- something real and train-related is reaching, and successfully warming, the hearts of the not-normally-interested, video-game-obsessed millennials.
Sigh.
Check it out, published yesterday, on 'Slate':
https://slate.com/human-intere...ocomotive-video.html
It's fair to say that most of us in this hobby (small trains) are in it because of the tug at the heart of the big ones. It's also clear, from this article, that others are awakening too.
How do we reach them? They're congregating around grade crossings and small town stations across the land. The tug is turning into a pull.
The author, her readers, and everyone who comes out to see 4014 are our successors. We need to get her, and as many of them as we can, here to this site and to all others like it, so that someone can eventually take the handoff from us seasoned veterans.
It's the perfect time to teach. Are we ready?
(Many thanks to Ruth Adams of Slate for this fine article, and to Slate for having her contribute. By the way, I'm only assuming that she's a millenial, but what the heck it's a place to start.
In addition to congratulating the author for "getting it" who would like to volunteer a little gentle constructive criticism to help her correct the handful of misconceptions, minor or otherwise, that are in her fine piece?
And if doing so remember two words: GENTLE and PATIENCE.)
Mike
