I know I was in Gilbert's once with several other O scalers from Virginia (I was stationed at Langley AFB at the time and had just gotten interested in O scale after twenty-some years in HO), back in the late 1970's, as we carpooled up to one of Jan Lorenzen's open houses. I was truly impressed with all the inventory, much of it older and hard to find, but we didn't have a lot of time to spend there. I have a vague feeling I'd also stopped there briefly in high school on a visit to the battlefield, but I had even less time then and a LOT less money to spend. It was one of the couple dozen really mythic hobby shops that existed in a sort of golden age; almost none survived the mass-discounters and then the internet.
Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > The old Gilberts had a huge selection of Civil War soldiers, for obvious > reasons. We never missed stopping in there when we were travelling in the > area, so I could add to my collection. Barely looked at the MRR stuff, as I > think it was all HO. Thanks for the memories. > Roger Nulton > Before it was Tommy Gilberts, as it off the beaten path in Gettysburg, it was > a mainstream hobbyshoppe on PA 97 going into town. > > It was know as Gilberts. > > If you have any old MR magazines you will see it listed in the back. > > I think the father died and the son, Tommy, just wanted to do Brass HO. > > Mike > > From: Ed Kozlowsky > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 4:47 PM > To: mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com > Subject: RE: {S-Scale List} Re: Dan's New Website Online > > The only one I know in that area is Tommy Gilbert's. > > Ed Kozlowsky > Sanford, Maine > > > --- On Tue, 2/15/11, Thomas Baker <mailto:bakert%40andrews.edu> wrote: > > From: Thomas Baker <mailto:bakert%40andrews.edu> > Subject: RE: {S-Scale List} Re: Dan's New Website Online > To: "mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com"; <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com> > Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 3:28 PM > > _____ > > Was Carver's the shop in Gettysburg that featured, as I recall, nothing but > model railroad items. It was on the opposite end of town from the campus of > Gettysburg College and the famous battlefield. > > Tom > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
