They aren't at all daunted that the narrow-gauge railroad in western Maine has been defunct since 1936.
Some people put in a pool.
Our idea right from the start was to have a family-oriented hobby. It's not one of those things that you set up and then tell kids they can't touch. As a hobby, garden railroading dates back about a hundred years, to British rail aficionados who laid track and ran diminutive steam-driven trains on their estates. Often those railroads were big enough to carry passengers on open cars, and a few garden trains still are. It's more like having an airplane.