My son's trains on the shelf below Daddy's trains in 2007 when he was only 2.
"Let's not kid ourselves that in model railroading that we are duplicating prototype railroading. Our grades are too steep. Our trains are too short. Our curves are too sharp. Our switches are too sharp. Area is limited. Rails are too high. Ties are too regularly shaped and spaced. Wheel flanges are too deep. All our trains run with electricity, with a most unrealistic sound. We persist in running steam locomotives in face of prototype dieselization. But we do the best we can, and we have a lot of fun."
-Bill Schopp from Trend Book 138, "Model Railroading", 1956.
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