Tinplate Art posted:Do you REALLY have to ask???
Well, yeah. It varies from person to person.
Some of us can't really say how we developed the interest (I sure can't, there was no big RR activity where I grew up, nobody in the family worked for a RR, so I wasn't exposed to trains any more than any other kid, growing up).
Not long ago, I found a wood steam locomotive toy my Dad made for me when I was a little kid. It's simplistic and lacks a tender, but he did a good job on it (Dad would have made a phenomenal model railroader if he'd taken up the hobby, as he's the best craftsman I've ever known). But that in reaction to my interest in trains, not the cause of it.
