(Topic) Do your family and friends know you are into trains?

I only really talk deeply about train collecting to my wife and Tully.
Tully really doesn’t care anymore, but I tell him about them anyway. Lol
There are a handful of family members and friends who know about the collection, but only a few have seen it, and none in the past 10 years, maybe a half dozen people who’ve even hear of the name Muddy Poppins, who might remember it, or even associate it with me.
My mom has never understood and oddly has never been interested in even seeing it.
Its kinda just my little secret that I keep to myself and hidden away.
I’d have to say that I’m a Thomas and friends character fan more than an actual train enthusiast, though I do love many of the non-Thomas real life Plarail models.
Western steamers mostly, but there are other designs that I really think look cool too.
That said, I don’t really converse about real life trains with true train enthusiasts either, as the technical jargon and lingo isn’t as important to me as seeing the smiling expression on a newly released characters face.
The guys at the local fair with the giant indoor HO set ups on public display nearly put me to sleep trying to have a conversations with them talking about compression units and Johnson rods…lol
It’s a lonely hobby sometimes, but it’s a great one, and we do seem to all eventually gravitate together enough to find whatever bit of support, gratification, and satisfaction we need…right here on BPT.