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Editorial
Not long ago I talked to a when a special or chartered a salesman that doesn’t be-
gentleman while setting up train comes through our lieve in what he’s selling?
something on the technical town? Do you only flip Try to find that spark that fu-
end of our publication. Curi- through a book when it’s new eled your many years of hob-
osity got the best of him and and then retire it to a dusty by enjoyment, hold on to it,
he began to ask me questions bookshelf or do you pull it and fan that flame.
about the magazine. He out periodically to review
spoke of a train set that had photos or subjects of interest -Bonnie
been set up at his work over to you?
the holidays and the excite-
ment in his voice was infec- Don’t get me wrong – I un-
tious. It was something that derstand how life takes prece-
invoked nostalgia and, per- dence over hobbies, but what
haps, a renewed interest in a kind of life would it be with-
hobby long forgotten and out those pockets of enjoy-
pushed aside by the onset of ment?
adulthood.
We so often focus on the act
After I spoke to this man, I of preservation of our interest
began to reevaluate my own in trains and model railroad-
life. I mean, trains are con- ing and how to invoke an in-
nected to my daily life in terest in the future
some shape or form, but how generations so that they may
often do I really take the time continue to carry it forward
to “stop and smell the that we lose touch with the
smoke?” – to put aside the fact that we are still avid hob-
business and focus on all the byists ourselves and likely
things that made me fall in will be for the remainder of
love with trains in the first our lives. But if you are still
place? intent on passing your pas-
sions on, remember that your
How many of us only dust off passion is a necessary ingre-
our locomotives when we dient for you to be able to ef-
have a scheduled run session? fectively do that. Who’s
Or pull out our cameras only going to buy something from
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