Re: Caboose Hobbies -- "Exciting News" coming
| November 22, 2016 01:05PM |
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Seems to me that this is a brand new store with just the name being the only connection. Didn't the original owners sell off almost everything they had before they closed the old store?
I'm not sure I get why some people were decrying the death of this store, as many of them that I know never spent a dime there. I only ever went once, and this was after I bailed from HO scale and years before I got back into the hobby in On30. I didn't buy a thing the one time I was there.
I crossed the country with my wife in 2012 on a cross-country sightseeing trip and we'd planned on stopping in Denver. Plans and route changed (my wife's doing, of course) and I missed my second/final chance to see the place where it'd been...
-Lee
Flickr photo set of my On30 layout
I'm not sure I get why some people were decrying the death of this store, as many of them that I know never spent a dime there. I only ever went once, and this was after I bailed from HO scale and years before I got back into the hobby in On30. I didn't buy a thing the one time I was there.
I crossed the country with my wife in 2012 on a cross-country sightseeing trip and we'd planned on stopping in Denver. Plans and route changed (my wife's doing, of course) and I missed my second/final chance to see the place where it'd been...
-Lee
Flickr photo set of my On30 layout
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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