There’s a Value Village thrift store in Shrewsbury that’s being displaced because the plaza it’s in–the same place I used to go to buy Commodore gear–is going to be demolished to make way for a Wal-Mart Supercenter. Whether Shrewsbury needs a Wal-Mart Supercenter when there’s one six miles away is another question for another day. [...]
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Value Village and Affton could be very good for one another
Posted by Dave Farquhar on April 23, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/04/value-village-and-affton-could-be-very-good-for-one-another/
E.R. Johnston, the train dealer, the myth, the legend
Something today made me think of Johnston Electric, a legendary, long-gone train store in St. Louis’ Dutchtown neighborhood that sold Lionel, American Flyer, and HO scale trains. I was in the old Marty’s Model Railroads store in Affton one afternoon several years ago while Marty was going through a box of trains he had bought [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on January 26, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/01/e-r-johnston-the-train-dealer-the-myth-the-legend/
Recapturing the charm of someone else’s dad’s American Flyer train
My buddy Todd brought over his dad’s American Flyer train today. It had been a gift from his dad on his first Christmas. It was from 1938.
That was a peculiar year, because it was the first year that A.C. Gilbert, of Erector fame, built American Flyer trains. Previously American Flyer had been an independent company in Chicago.
This model was a Gilbert design, and at most produced from 1938 to 1941.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on April 9, 2006
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2006/04/recapturing-the-charm-of-someone-elses-dads-american-flyer-train/
Making a Marx run like a Marx again
After a couple of marathon days at work, I unwound on Martin Luther King Jr. Day by refurbishing an old Marx Canadian Pacific-style tinplate locomotive.
At first, its problem wasn’t obvious.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on January 17, 2005
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2005/01/making-a-marx-run-like-a-marx-again/
Operate incompatible rolling stock together with conversion cars
In the early 1950s, Lionel had two different standards for the couplers on its train cars. “Serious” sets used its knuckle couplers. Entry-level, or “Scout” sets, used one-piece couplers that came to be known as “Scout” couplers. My Dad had cars with both types of couplers in his collection.
Once I got Dad’s set running, I found a Marx car on eBay that I absolutely had to have–an operating Missouri Pacific cattle car. Marx used its own couplers. So how to get both types of Dad’s cars, plus my new Marx car operating together on the same train?
Enter the conversion car.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on January 26, 2004
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2004/01/operate-incompatible-rolling-stock-together-with-conversion-cars/
A more permanent home for Dad’s Lionel
Gatermann and I spent the afternoon building a train table. I started building one about a month ago but got too busy to finish it. Today was the day I’d set aside to get some work done on it.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on January 18, 2004
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