Terry Danks posted:I really seem at odds with so many toy train enthusiasts.
Yes, I had Lionels as a boy, in the 1950s. Tubular track. Had some Super O when I sold everything and left toy trains.
I have zero desire to reacquire any of that stuff! Even back then I just wanted more realistic trains. I hungered after the beautiful models advertised in the magazines. Overland stuff and Walthers scale passenger cars. Of course I could afford none of it on a kid's allowance!
No conventional running, no tubular track, no postwar stuff for me. Just doesn't interest me. Rather perplexes me that so many people love this stuff. Now we see a resurgence of tinplate . . . with sound no less???
And once again, we have an example of "I don't like it, so why in God's name would anyone else like it?"
I just don't get that mentality. At all. I don't give a flying flip what anyone else does/enjoys, it doesn't affect me and it's none of my business. Too much of that crap on this forum and in society in general...
