Model railways versus video games: Decades(!) ago I read an essay wondering: What's the deal with model railroading ? What's the attraction ? Why are people co

Model railways versus video games: Decades(!) ago I read an essay wondering: What's the deal with model railroading ? What's the attraction ? Why are people compelled to build these little worlds and be their masters ? But then, heh, along came Sid Meyer's Civilization and scads of other world-building video games. So who's feeling compulsion nowadays ? Sitting on your duff in front of a video game for hours on end could seem somewhat inferior to actually using your hands to make and do things. I think a key to keeping the hobby alive might be to play up the modelling aspects. How often does one get to build a mountain ? Or a multimodal transportation system ?