Dear Allan,
I have read your article, very well written!
I am an operator rather than a collector while it maybe depressing for some your assesment that the train hobby largely holds little collectors value the larger value I agree with you rests with us in the present!
So, with that in mind, I will continue to catalogue my trains to pass them down through the ages down to my grandchildren (as yet unborn), but since reading your article I will commit it into writing the sheer joy that I found in them and the shared joy that I shared with my father watching them run and building it with him, after I am gone, I am not sure it will matter all that much but I just wanted to pass the joy on as only a loving grandfather could ( having played with them of course) in this way (I will have it attached to the reading of the will) even though it was not much real value it will hold spiritual value for them. Thank you for your article. though I am not as well off as Frank Sinatra was and Tom Snyder was I will make similar provisions so that my memories can be preserved even if it is just for my grandchildren to enjoy.
PS. I am a comic book and baseball card collector as well!
Mike Maurice
