Boy, these really are old memories!!!! . (I also had my Globe diesel but I got it earlier in a > small shop up in Ridgewood...hey, anyone remember that place...just east of > the Warner Theatre?) Sure do! Rode my bike or walked (through the pedestrian underpass under the Erie main from Wilsey Sq. to Broad Street, then down E. Ridgewood Ave). Carl Stechart ran the shop. It moved a couple of places after that, on the corner of W. Ridgewood Ave on the street that ran back to the original Pease Library and also on Wilsey Sq (?) with a view if the RR station and the main line. Purchased my original LMB Matt Shay from him when he was by the Warner. > > Speaking of a more "high-end" dedicated shop, can I jog your memory even > more?? How about Mr. Rink (first name I forget) over at Northeastern MR on > the Boulevard in Hasbrouck Hts?? Oh yes, one of my favorite places! His name was Arno Rinck and it was Eastern Model RR Co. I have never seen shelves so haphazzardly packed with model trains and parts, yet he knew where everything was. He moved to Montana, the town of Hungry Horse, when he continued primarily in mail order (he wanted a town whose name people could remember). He was thinking of taking over the HP Products line of TT gauge trains as well. That part fell through. I had been buying a lot of the early brass imports (Max Gray Erie K-5a, the Akane USRA engines the Erie had, etc.) and just had gotten out of the Army as he was about to move. He had asked me to move out to Montana and work with him on the manufacturing end, but I opted to return to teaching in the east. Thanks for the reminder of those times. - -- Tony Horn ELHS #2 The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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