I had a Train Day

Up until the Red Caboose, sound like you had a great trip, thanks for sharing.

Train days are great. I spent Saturday in Steamtown with wife and daughter. Great stuff. Fortunately we had a happy ending. 

I was intrigued, so I did a search and read the reviews of the store on YELP.com. VERY interesting. Some people rave about the place. Others describe it as "The Soup Nazi of Model Trains!"

I guess it will be worth checking out to make up one's own mind!  LOL.

The sad thing about it is that there is a lot of nice stuff in there but I don't need that Madison Hardware attitude, not in this day and age. There is some good postwar stuffed all over with tons of HO and N..Soup Nazi of Trains is perfect!

I guess I do not understand the "Madison Hardware attitude" reference!  I placed two orders with Madison Hardware over the phone and they were most helpful using my layman's descriptions of what I needed.  I also visited on two occasions, once on a business trip and a second time in 1981 with my wife and two sons (ages 9 and 5).  On both occasions, they were able to help me with what I needed and were very nice to my young sons even giving them something that they were  very pleased with (I must admit I cannot remember what it was).  As a matter of fact, the older son still mentions the store we went into that had boxes and trains from floor to 12 feet in the air.

For me, having visited there is a very pleasant memory.

Happy railroading,

Don