When I go into a thrift store, salvation army, or goodwill with my wife I always head to the toys and the bric a brac and see if they have any model trains or anything that reasonably looks like model train fodder. Rarely find much. Last week I went into the Goodwill here in Indiana, PA. I'm up here studying this summer at IUP and needed a study break. So I was wandering around escaping the books. They a few rows of what looked like someone had given a few boxes of christmas decorations. True to form they had plenty of the little mis-scaled ceramic houses that my mother-in law likes (they bother me that the windows and doors wind up being almost the same size as the chimney...and her people are bigger than her buildings). They also had a few boxes of old train cars. I picked one up out of curosity and opened it. Still in the box unassembled complete Pennsylvania passenger car. Well, that would make a nice momento of my time here at IUP studying and a nice conversation piece...so I tucked it under my arm. The next box was also not marked, so I opened it...Pennsylvania passenger car. Well I might as well get them both. A few boxes later I had five matching passenger cars and a Quakerstate tanker tucked under my arm. Not a bad Goodwill find. Not bad for 12 bucks. Went back Saturday, again on break, and picked up a built and then disassembled neatly and replaced in original box barn, with fences and sheep, pigs, and a few dogs. I also found another building and two 1:87 Tacoma extended cab pick up trucks. Needed more trucks. Not a bad few Goodwill finds. Everyonce in a while I do get lucky.
Wow, at goodwill? I never find anything remotely like that when I go. I did locate about 100 HO cars for sale at a buck a piece at a flea market, opened the unmarked white boxes to find every car the exact same. A silver southern railway gondola that was made by some spin-off of Life-Like's original "toy" HO scale line. Not worth the box it was packaged in.
how about a box of every trains magaziene from 1964 to 1969 plus some duplicates for $12.00 at a flea market
