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Bump

I model THB & CP so not a burning issue for me, but I do have an interest in Continental Railways.  My family is from Scotland.  I doubt that Euro Modellers make up much of your audience but the internet is so international.  I know on some of the other sites I frequent there are modelers from Europe, down under, the orient and even met one chap from South Africa on line.  They have their own forums for sure - but might be an interesting thing to add to a future survey.

BTW - Love the concept of MRH - great job.

I wasn't quite sure what to tick off in the RTR question. For rolling stock and engines, RTR along with some kit building is good. What got me to thinking was structures, for which there was no question. I do build the odd plastic kit, or use buildings that I find at a train show, but I really do like scratcbuilding and am getting into craftsman kits.

Roy

Perhaps in future surveys we list these same options for RTR, kitbashing, etc, but we have you rank them according to preference.

answers.  I noticed that many of the survey questions allowed for a brief clarification or explanation that allowed me to be a bit more specific than just "ticking" off a box or circle in this case.  I think that anyone could use those boxes to offer clarification if the survey answer was a little too general to convey what they wanted to say.

It would be interesting to see the correlation of era with year the person was born.  For example, is it more likely your era is going to be the time you were a child, or is it more complex than that? 

I picked the transition era of the 1950's because like both steam and diesel.  I run 1950's era equipment mostly on a modular club layout, but I don't think my choice of era is really connected with childhood so much as I like to watch all of the "monkey motion" of a steam rod engine at work.  For my home layout, I'm modeling the Los Angeles Junction Rwy during the Cf7 era (@1980-2003).  I like the LAJ because I can run more modern equipment, but I don't care about intermodal or unit trains and like to do industrial switching, which is all that the LAJ does.

Not true for me ... I was born in the 1950s but I model the 1980s - an era when I have happy railfanning memories with my son.

If you could even pull some correlation of era to year of birth, it would provide insight into future trends for manufacturers.  As the years pass, you'd see more of a shift to later and later eras as those in that age group come back to the hobby (or have more money and time to spend on it).  If it doesn't correlate, that's probably better in the long run.