Can you do this in your super market?

What market? 

That's cool Chris! I am in Southern NH. Is the Market in the Boston area?

Honey...Do we need Milk? 

 

Sunrise

Here in Port Jefferson Station, ny  we have an Italian market called Uncle Giuseppi which runs an MTH  R40 over his refrigerators and a MTH frieght train in the produce dept. This is during Christmas season, Vic

The nearby Wegmans in Germantown and Frederick MD both have G Gauge trains running around the ceiling. In Frederick, the Walkersville Southern (see link in signature) tracks run behind the building. Sad as that was a farm 5-7 years ago and suburbia is slowing taking over the rail line. 

 

There is another nearby store that apparently has an elaborate LGB ceiling set up....never been in it. Will have to go someday. 

 

We've also got a few restaurants...Clydes In Chevy Chase is a "Transportation Theme" with an Orient Express coach, 1930s - 1950s Mercedes, Jags, etc. Museum Quality ships on display, etc and a G Gauge Orient Express running around the ceiling. Nice place. Just one example of many. 

In Portsmouth, RI we have a nice, privately owned, family market with G scale trains running over every one's head, the shelving units and the coolers.  Maybe 200 feet of track, it is pretty cool.  Runs continuously....

It's not a big chain store. It is a smaller market called Luchi's We go there if we just need a few things.

Hi Chris,

 

That's pretty cool !!!!!!!!!!!

 

Thanks for posting,

Alex

There is also a restaurant just west of Wernersville PA(rt 422) that has LGB trains running on loops at the ceiling.  They also have a complete set of the K line Reading Crusader on a shelf in the diner area.   Usually two trains running.  Wish I could remember the name of the  place.  

very nice idea

Chris,

Saw the wife leaving you there with the shopping cart!

 

By the way, were they running the J-E-T-S train there?

That is fun.  they are remodeling the Whole Foods were I shop.  I must mention to them they should do this: they are just quirky enough they might.

Pretty cool. I'd never get any shopping done.

In Maine we have a small family owned restaurant chain called "Governors Restaurant".

Each restaurant runs a large scale over head layout through out  each dinning area. They're a hit with the kids young and old. 

The Burger Kings in my area used to each have a theme.  One had a 5ft tall model of the space shuttle and the ceiling above it was a dome with starts.  Another had a G gauge train that went around the edge of the ceiling and had train signs and posters on the wall.  Sadly all have been remodeled and now look the same with the corporate standard look or closed.

Now that's a novel idea!

 

--Greg

This makes me wonder when LGB was first introduced to this country?  I first saw a

large scale train running over my head in a little restaurant where I ate breakfast

in Salisbury, Mo. about 1965. 

Well, seeing that my copy of the 1988 LGB catalog celebrates "20 Years of LGB," I would hazard to guess 1968.

 

Rusty

That train set would definitely make me a customer.

You really can't see it in the video but the cars are food products.Folgers coffee,Sunny-D Jiff peanut butter. It's being pulled by a K-Line switcher"Now RMT" and I think the cars are K-line as well.

I once saw Pee Wee Herman in the produce department.  Can't post the video. It was held as evidence

That was cool.

Can't believe no one asked why the button was in a strange location and why did the train go rev/ loop/ rev/ for 

I remember back in the mid 1950s there was a supermarket near us that had a Lionel set running in the middle of the produce department.  It also had a mill with an operating water wheel (real water) that the train circled.  Needless to say, I wanted my mom to shop there every time.

 

Near Chicago, in Des Plaines, there is still a diner that uses Lionel trains to bring food to the customer's table.  http://www.thechoochoo.com/

The door bell type button was put in that lower location so kids could reach it. The train will only run if you keep your finger on the button. I kind of demonstrated the F-N-R action by momentarily taking my finger off the button.

Well, if circa 1968 was when LGB first arrived, that might have been when I was

in that little Salisbury, Mo. restaurant, but they must have really gotten the jump on

most to have that in operation then.  Des Plaines has a hobby shop I visited when

I could get to the Wheaton show...what restaurant, where?  Hills, once not too far

from there is gone, though, worse luck...has anything replaces it?

 

I'm glad that there are still places in the country that have stores like this. It reminds me of my much younger days!

 

Thanks for the memories!

 

Dave

We had a Shop n Save store here in Greensburg, PA that had a G gauge overhead train in the meat department.  Didn't have customer-operated controls, though.  That's neat.

There's a McDonald's in Mt. Pleasant that has display cases filled with LGB trains and all sorts of railroad-related decor on the walls.