[ SECRET POST #6529 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6529 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Where are you that it’s only recently become so expensive that it’s basically a rich person’s hobby? It has been in America at least since the early 90s.

[(Anonymous)]

Probably not America, then.

It only became a proper rich person's thing here about 15 years ago.

[(Anonymous)]

Hell, it was a rich person's hobby when my dad was a kid and that was more than 50 years ago.

Forget the space to display them, the trains THEMSELVES have always been expensive.

[(Anonymous)]

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I was always fascinated by them so when I moved out and got my own place I decided to get into the hobby. And that when I found out I couldn’t afford it. I spent more than I should have on a basic N scale set but couldn’t afford anything to build a nice miniature world for it to travel through.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I'm looking right now and the CHEAPEST full train set I can find is $130 - most of them are significantly more than that. And that's literally just for one train, not even any of the other decorations to go with it.

This is not a hobby for people who do not have tons of money to burn.

[scissorsevered]

My dad was born and raised in a blue-collar (arguably white trash) area of Massachusetts and he and his father had a huge model train collection around the early 90s. A lot of people in the scene (at least in that area at the time) would sell them for relatively cheap and people would trade or buy stuff second-hand.

I wouldn't call it a rich persons hobby in terms of the trains/displays themselves, but if you're seriously hardcore about model trains to where its taking up an entire basement and you want even more, then you're gonna be bleeding money buying property.

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This was also true during the 80s. While I never had a train collection myself, I loved admiring other people's collections.
Lots of collection type hobbies require storage and display furniture. This can be just as expensive as the collectibles themselves. Some of the biggest toys available during the 70s and 80s were called "alimony settlement" toys. They were so damned big and pricey. The average home basement could not contain two of them at once.