I certainly wouldn't take it the "wrong" way. I worked on that stuff for 20 years, keeping it humming. I installed switch frames, only to be in charge of their removal, 10 years later. I never suspected that anyone, myself included, would ever have any interest in that crapola.
It would be like a coal miner taking his pick and shovel home with him and doing a little digging on his days off.
Now, however, like most old technology, and the fools who worked on it, there is a rebirth of interest, and I seem to have caught the disease. I'm having a great time.