Gettysburg and Trains.....

Next time you go back, check out the Lincoln Train Museum.  I was there a couple of weeks ago and posted some pix in this thread.

Andy

I saw that museum but just ran out of time....like I said...I gotta go back.

Yeah, you can stay a week in Gettysburg and still not see everything.  And there are so many fun little shops in town.  I like parking near the circle and just exploring the town on foot.

Andy

The hobby shop you visited may have been  Tommy Gilbert's Hobby Shop.  Tommy also does great custom painting.  The hobby shop is in the area of the old Gettysburg RR.

I went on a trip to Gettysburg in the 70s with my family as a kid.  I remember the battlefields as being a bit spooky.  I felt like there was still blood on the rocks.  Reverential is another word.  I don't know if you made it to Harper's Ferry.  I remember walking across a huge wood trestle bridge there over the river that tied into a mountain tunnel on the other side.  If a train was a comin', we were jumping into the river.  That's what made it fun.  I also remember breaking the Guinness book of world record for skipping a stone in that river there.  I think 2 rivers come together there and they make a bend at Harper's Ferry, creating the perfect current for me to skip a stone legitimately 23 times, breaking the GBoWR mark of 16.  We had the book along for the ride because that was new back then.  The trains were cool there and the history is magnificent.     

The first time I toured Gettysburg, we did a self-guided tour on Saturday and spent the night around the PA/MD border.  The following morning, we toured the Antietam Battlefield in the morning and went to Harpers Ferry in the afternoon before heading home.  Managed to do some train watching in Harpers Ferry while touring the town.  Great place to visit - gotta get back there some time.

Andy

AMC DAVE,

You were at " Toy Trains Depot Musem", 305 Buford AVE. It is quite a shop. It is  owned by Jane and Don Carver. And yes, he has a large selection of all kinds of  trains.

We stay in Gettysburg during York week, and always make it a point to visit this train shop. I have found a few treasures there over the years. A few years ago we stopped in the shop afer a week of bandit meets and the York meet. I had been lookng for a Western Pacific F3 Rail Sounds B unit. I could not find one anywhere in York. When we stopped by Mr. Cover"s train shop I looked up and down the shelves full of orange boxes, both Post War and Modern era Lionel. And there it was, the WP F3 Rail Sounds B unit, brand new in the box.  He even discounted the price a little, but I would have paid full price.

My last visit there was the spring of 2011. at that time Mr. Carver was considering saling shop, and retiring if I recall. I am glad he is still there.

Richard Gonzales.

Thanks Richard for providing the info I failed to get!! Mr. Cover was talking about some new items on the way so it looks like he plans on being there for a while.

It is as much a museum as a store as he has many items I'd only read about!! 

Thanks

This is what is great about this forum. We go to Gettysburg quite often and I have never come across this place before. Can't wait to go visit. Thanks!!

Turtle 2 and AMC DAVE,

I never saw Madison Hardware, only heard storeis and saw pictures. With trains stacked to the ceiling Toy Trains Depot Museum is the closest thing I have ever seen that would resemble what I think Madison Hardware would have looked like.

Richard

No, Tommy's shop is on the other side of town, and he has virtually NO O gauge. Sorry. I have been in both stores. There are also many in surrounding towns.

Dave

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Come to Nicholas Smith in Broomall PA. You will know what Madison Hardware looked like. :-)

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Yes Gettysburg is a great place to visit, I go at least one time a year for the past 20 odd years and I never knew the (Toy Trains Depot Musem ) was there heading down the end of august cant wait to see it. As for Tommy Gilberts Shop Great Place and a great guy, He and weaver got together and made two beautifull box cars in o scale one with a cannon crossed flags union and confederate  date's of battle, The other with the 140th anniversary of the battle on it there both PS-1 40' cars with great detail and low #s I think 600 each I was lucky to get both of them. The last time I talked to Tommy he was talking of a caboose to go with them I hope he does it.