Dan:
68 going on 5, resident of southwestern Ohio. Been a train fan since childhood along the main line of the Burlington west of Chicago. Wrote to the C&S when I was 14 asking them for plans for their narrow gauge trains and actually received a set of folio sheets from a guy named Moody, I still have the sheets and the envelope. Kids are not bashfull.
Went west too late to see the "real thing" but Friends work sessions in the summers kind of give me my annual "fix".
Frank