Vintage HO Trains.

[toptrain]

      At the Edison NJ train show last Saturday, my HObbyline find was the 4 passenger cars to the PRR set #456 "Train Blazer". They are in excellent condition. I need to get 4 original couplers from I hope other 1954-1955 HObbyline cars I have in my collection. The older 1953 couplers work just as well! This second complete set of these 4 passenger cars may be in better condition than my first set. People knowing of and going to this train show may have seen in the past an older gentleman who sometimes had a sign over his 2 tables which read "POP'S TRAINS". This kind outgoing fellow always had time to talk about and show you his latest project repairs and sometimes restoration of the HO train. Last Saturday was no exception for POP's. He stops whatever he is doing, and he was still very busy because the train show had not opened just yet, He gladly started a conversation on a Rivarossi B&O pacific which he produced from nowhere and explained to me in the smallest of detail what he felt he needs to do to get the beautiful old locomotive back to a pristine condition. Me I probably had the biggest stupid-looking smile on my face as he not noticing that the show had opened and people were charging around looking here and there for that special train. He finished in a little while and I asked about if he had some HObbyline trains. Again out of nowhere came this 4 car passenger set He told me what he wanted and being a good price I got it. Of course, I haggled a little and got nowhere. "THANKS POP".

FRANK