Model railroads are like their real-world counterparts; they can suffer downturns in traffic and business. Last night, our club ops were sparsely attended. Where sometimes we’ll have 20+, maybe upwards of thirty people, this time we only had a dozen. Member’s wives where in recovery, people had to work their crummy recession-desperate jobs, it was summer, something was on the tube, whatever. As a friend told me when he drove in and saw the cars in the parking lot, he thought “Uh oh.” But the layout was clean and we were here and trains were coupled up, so we figured […]