Things I remember back in the day

[chutton01]

steemtrayn

Going to Manhattan and visiting five train stores.

You beat me in quantity then - my teenage self in the mid-late 1980s only visited AHC (when the "showroom" was on the second floor on 23rd IIRC, not the later small store near Penn Station), the Red Caboose when it was on the 8th floor (again, IIRC), with a funky little elevator to take your to the dark shadowy display cases (darker the further back you got from the windows where Alan and the register sat - cats sat anywhere they wanted), and the basement store across the street (can't recall the name right now, but that's where the Red Caboose eventually moved, retaining it's bizarro product arrangment from the 8th floor).
In 2013 I recall there was another model shop, somewhere north of Macy's several floors up, I stopped by and it was closed, but thru the doors you could see what looked to be a large train layout. Don't recall that store either.

[BigDaddy]

chutton01

cause the word "hooker" is slightly bawdy I suppose.

Nonsense  Hooker was a famous Civil War General who.... well maybe you have a point

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

I remember the extruded aluminum passenger cars made by Mantua and others. I used to have several of them. 

[BRAKIE]

Heartland Division CB&Q

I remember the extruded aluminum passenger cars made by Mantua and others. I used to have several of them. 

 

I will mention the Walthers passenger car kits..Those passenger cars wasn't to bad for the time.

One more thing..I miss the smell of lichen..That was the smell that greeted you when you stepped into the Columbus HO club when it was in the basement of the A&P store on the corner of Third and Rich Streets..

[Heartland Division CB&Q]

Larry ... I remember the old Walthers heavyweight passenger cars with stamped sheet metal sides, wood floors and roofs, and metal castings. Another company that made cars like that was called JC Models.  I made some of those cars. 

[G Paine]

BigDaddy

Nonsense Hooker was a famous Civil War General who.... well maybe you have a point

Hooker Chemical was also responsible for the Love Canal Superfund site. The 'Love' part is for a MR. Love who, in the 1800s tried to build a canal around Nigara Falls to connect the Great Lakes to the ocean. The project went bankrupt and Hooker bought the big hole in the ground to dispose of chemical wastes.