Wow! I got into model railroading back in the mid 80’s after seeing a layout at my friends house. He was a WWII veteran that attended the same church as I did. He invited me over to view his HO scale layout and after that I was hooked, fully line, sinker and bait. I had to move from GA to TN and had to tear down my layout and after 13 years in the storage barn, I dediced recently to put it back up. I was going through all my boxes and didn’t realize that I had accumulated so much “stuff” over the years. Now my wife is into the hobby and is extremely excited for me to revive my old DC layout. A lot has changed since I originally laid my first bit of roadbed and track; now there’s DCC which I think is over rated and just too costly for a retired Vietnam vet on a fixed income. Maybe things will change once I get the layout going again. I just hope I can get everything re-connected without too many problems. I also plan to expand my HO layout into a modular system in case I have to move again. Yep, I’ve been hooked for quite a number of years now.