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Why did grown men play with model trains back then?

• walshemj 6y ago
  They still do and these clubs are very well known in the history of tech.
  • masswerk 6y ago
    http://tmrc.mit.edu http://tmrc.mit.edu
• gumby 6y ago
  Well for one thing grown people play with all sorts of things. Boats are also quite popular, not just real ones but model ones. Also there were more "group" activities in those days (consider Moose and Elk lodges and other societies, of which only a few really survive any more). As far as trains specifically: For a long time trains were the definitional high tech artifacts; my dad bought me a train set (I was born in the early 60s) and though I thought it was merely OK, he, being from the 1930s, remembered trains as super exciting. Plus it's one of those activities with a gajillion degrees of freedom (mechanical, artistic, electrical, mathematical) which encourages groups of people to work together on the pieces that appeal to them.
• breakingcups 6y ago
  Why shouldn't they?