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I like looking at cycles to try and predict things.  Let's say the postwar years were a booming time for trains. Then the beginning of the modern era, the 70's into the 80's things took a dive.  And I'm not dissing General Mills or MPC.  But plastic steam engines and plastic wheels on freight cars was a low for starter sets, especially for Lionel.  Things started to pick up with the Kughn years and then MTH burst onto the scene and started what I believe to be the platinum age of toy trains.  Competition drove Lionel to get their quality back up while MTH pumped out engines and rolling stock never before made.  Never before had an operator had so much to choose from from so many different brands...Lionel, MTH, Atlas, K-Line, Williams, 3rd Rail, etc.  Not to mention all the off shoots associated with building and operating a layout.  I'm guessing most of us bought trains like they would dissappear tomorrow.  Way more than we could use or need.  Standard gauge died because spaces got smaller and trains adapted accordingly.  Postwar died as slot cars, space travel and other things occupied young kids.  Modern era gave way to Platinum.  Each time things went high and then low and then high.  Now phones and video games and computers occupy most kids in an endless onslaught of information and connectivity.   We have held up the hobby as long as we could.  It may be on the down slope.  Hopefully it will come around again and a new train age will be born.  Enjoy what you have and have fun.  BigRail 

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