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The history of N scale model trains is incredibly old. There is an amazing variety of different makes and models from all over the world. Folks have been creating and collecting them for many years and is still as popular as it was even when I was a child, and that's a long time ago. When I was a small boy, my father had model trains from all over the world which means model trains have been manufactured for more than a century. The passion of the Hobbyist and enthusiast have shaped countries and model clubs to share and discuss their passions through the USA and all over the world. The first model trains that were manufactured using mechanical mechanism exactly like winding up a clock. That was how I remember the cast metal toy trains my parents bought me as a kid. Then afterward they started running on steam and electricity just like their real world counterparts.
I can not remember how many my father had, but there was many more than I can recall, and of many shapes and sizes, and colors. There are probably 100s of 1,000s of them in the world today, with just as many enthusiasts with the same passion and pride my father had. I had worked with a 70 year old man only a few years ago who was still as passionate, and still traveling all around the world to shows, clubs, events, and communities that he had done most of his life. Now that's passion!
I must admit, if you could have seen how my father had built this room in our house for his actual town with all the working parts, you would have been in awe. He was a design engineer for a company that built mega machines such as earth movers, cranes during the day and an artist in what spare time he had away from his building and creating the town. He made everything himself, from the model houses, train stations, buildings, light and telegraph poles, hills, high rises, roads, cars, trucks, even rivers etc. Now I'm not saying he did not buy anything at all, but I remember him spending every waking hour he could making models etc, and if he was not making it, he was painting it.
I do not know when being a train enthusiast starts. When does one say to themselves, I think I am going to start collecting model trains. Do they just wake up one morning and decide, or it does start from when you're a kid. I do not know my-self, but it would be interesting to find out. As for me, I loved playing with trains as a kid, and when I got older around 12 I would go with my friends train spotting for the #s on the steam trains that thundered along the tracks in London, England where I was born.
I myself never did get the bug like my father and some other people I know, but I can certainly understand why the bug affects millions of people around the world and the passion it draws. When you see the amount of work that goes into the creation of building the system that surrounds them, you come to realize, that the n scaled trains it's self is only a small part of the whole experience. It's not unlike being an architect designing buildings in the big cities or even urban towns.
Having that kind of passion myself started for me as a kid with motorcycles which I still ride today, then Karate as a teenager spending almost 35 years training and teaching, so I really get as to why these hobbyists and enthusiasts get so excited and do what they do, and why even today today some probably think it is for young kids, but I can assure anyone reading this that it is far from being a kids pastime, but actually being a way of life that will be around for centuries to come.
So, if you are one of those passionate model train enthusiasts who actually build the platforms, or even just a collector from places around the world, you certainly earn my respect for your dedication and craftsmanship, and I wish you all the success for many years in the future.
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