I love model trains! As a kid in New York I used to visit the little hidden train stores scattered throughout the city and one really big store named Polks that is now long gone.
I built little dioramas funded by my grandfather, and dreamt about huge and complicated model cities that I absolutely did not have the room for, not to mention the money, because those little N Scale German trains were expensive as heck.
Now of course most of us settle for things like TrainSim world, But it’s not the same. I just found out about this place in New Jersey and I very much want to go visit there. The little kid in me is stupidly excited.
I remember my father had a single N-scale locomotive, can’t remember if there was any rolling stock. I marvelled that something could be so small and still work.
Nowadays I imagine it’d be easy to do with modern machine-wound micro motors, of course there’s negligible demand …
I still have a few locos in storage… and I have a shed now… for my retirement