Wow... you've been there as long I have my driver's license... Congratulations for over 40 years of dedication!
I started three years after service to country and lose of wife and daughter. 1974. It was in O scale and I got to do a lot of wiring for the club for 6 years. Then it was very little until the '90s when I moved back out to the country. That was an O scale outdoors and N indoors. In '07 I moved back up north and wanted to go to DCC HO but couldn't and have switched back to N. I have never belonged to a real club. Just visited some. Rich