It’s economics, I feel with the model railroad hobby in somewhat of a decline, and I say somewhat because I don’t know the exact economics of the hobby, but I say this from what I see. I’ve been in many scales over the past 50 years and now I’m down to G Scale as my last scale and that’s most likely where I will end the hobby of model railroading. I went to the First Garden Railroad Convention in Denver, can’t remember the year, but I have my name badge somewhere around the house. Mark Horowitz was there,
and we went to his home where he had a small circle of track out by the street where his LGB engine and a few cars ran around in a circle. I hope Mark reads this forum he might remember the two guys from Texas, only around 35 people attended the convention at a small college in Denver. I have remained in G Scale over all those years, all my railroad is LGB and I have stayed with the scale 1:22.5 all these years, all is redone to my railroad as I’m a modeler first and a runner second. If I was to start over today it would be the 1:20.3 Scale, I really enjoy modeling. Here is a pic of one of my railroad engines redone to my liking.
