Looks like google predicts the end of model trains

[tomustang]

Meh, 98% of all statistics are made up

[Beerman42]

I though today was the end of the world? Only two thing that I am sure of, your taxes are going up no matter what bracket you are in, and everyone who eats green peas is going to die.

[Lester Perry]

Oh yea that's right, I forgot.

[Ralph]

Meh, 98% of all statistics are made up

....everyone who eats green peas is going to die.

again!

[Green_Elite_Cab]

Meh, 98% of all statistics are made up

The other 2% are hopelessly misrepresented!

Sometimes statistics helps, but you have to know the right questions to ask.

[ezdays]

Meh, 98% of all statistics are made up

I told you a million times, stop exaggerating like that, statistically speaking....

[Sumpter250]

SO !!!! This is what the world looks like after it has come to an end !!!
I think the Mayans, where a bit smarter than the "Googles" - - - the world is still here, and I suspect that model trains, will be around for a bit longer too.

[tetters]

SO !!!! This is what the world looks like after it has come to an end !!!

I know. A little disappointing isn't it? I was hoping for something a little more dramatic yesterday.

Instead I woke up this morning ( just like every other morning ) with a sore back, my 17 lb tomcat laying on my chest, purring like a well tuned engine, and pulling on my lower lip with his paw. That's his usual way of saying, "get up and feed me breakfast Dad!"

[Green_Elite_Cab]

SO !!!! This is what the world looks like after it has come to an end !!!

I know. A little disappointing isn't it? I was hoping for something a little more dramatic yesterday.

Instead I woke up this morning ( just like every other morning ) with a sore back, my 17 lb tomcat laying on my chest, purring like a well tuned engine, and pulling on my lower lip with his paw. That's his usual way of saying, "get up and feed me breakfast Dad!"

Hold on, maybe we're just in the twilight zone! Quickly, scan the horizon, make sure Rod Serling isn't narrating in the distance some place!

[sailormatlac]

It's funny how many people forget that hobbies are often the mirror image of what you see in reality... For people growing in the 50s, trains were everywhere... Then they slowly disappeared. What's the percentage of people travelling on trains in North America nowadays? I could name tens and tens of people around me that never stepped aboard one in their lifetime and some are 40 years old. When I was a kid, they was still some substantial freight traffic in my area and it made an incredible impression on me... Back then, it was still possible to guess what time it was when hearing a whistle... That kind of thing never happen in our tidy sleepy and disconnected suburbia. Trains aren't anymore, for many of us, a part of their daily life.

In an other hand, I must agree that things are slowly moving from reality to virtuality. If you just want to operate trains, you don't have to build a layout anymore. As for video games, since the late 80s, I always hear the same complains again and again. They said the same thing with movies a century ago... Maybe a lot of people waste their time in games. My question is would they really do something out of their hands without games? The issue isn't the game, but rather how they were educated. Looks like someone somewhere forgot it could be a good idea to show them they could do much more in life with their hands.

Also, maybe the hobby is skrinking, that's a fact. Does it really means it's dying? Would the entire hobby shut down, I would stop me to continue 'til the very end of my life.

;-)

Matt

[Lester Perry]

Well I have purchase two cars and four decoders in the last five years, oh yea I just bought 2 gas pumps. My DCC died a few months ago so I have been running DC. I guess I am saying this to say this (what?). If it dies in my lifetime I will still be running trains probably until I am unable to or dead.

[RobertInOntario]

I would agree with Mike's posting -- that's pretty much been my experience. It took having two sons to get me back into the hobby.

[Ralph]

I'm into it for life. Sometime I hope to invite friend and his son over to operate the layout...but the boy needs to mature a little bit first.