Like others, my parents and grandparents were working class people. Trains were about as far away from reality as going to the moon, back then.
I should add, however, that my Aunt's, by marriage, brother passed away in the '80s and she gave me what little she was able to get from her sister. One item was a scale two rail Pennsy K4. At the time I had no way to run it nor the inclination to build a two rail O scale layout. So I sold it to gain funs for my Lionel empire.
