Hobby shops / train shops in Akron OH area

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Dan Merkel - 28 Sep 2005 21:00 GMT

I may have asked this once before, but I don't remember getting an answer.

Where are the good train shops in the Akron, OH, area? I'm interested in
HO scale. My daughter is a sophomore at Kent State and it would be nice to
visit a train shop when we are visiting with her. I went to one that was
right on the river; it was a nice sized shop, but the owner said he was
getting ready to sell it. He appeared to be near retirement age; perhaps
that's why the stock was low.

I suppose that there are some in the Cleveland area as well, but that might
be a bit too far away, especially if they are on the west side.

For what it's worth... the only trains-only shop that I'm aware of in the
Columbus area is The Train Station on Indianola. I was there earlier this
summer and it was a really enjoyable visit. They have a pretty large
selection of merchandise, a nice sized shop and the staff was friendly &
knowledgeable.

So... what do you know about train shops in the Akron area?

dlm
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Dan Merkel

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trainfan1 - 28 Sep 2005 22:33 GMT

> I may have asked this once before, but I don't remember getting an answer.
>
> Where are the good train shops in the Akron, OH, area?

> Dan Merkel

Try playing around with this search:

http://tinyurl.com/8uz8e

Rob

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Dan Merkel - 29 Sep 2005 14:03 GMT

I'm looking for someone who has "been there." I learned a long time ago
that ads in the Yellow Pages or even in MR don't mean that there is a good
train shop on the other end of the trip.

So, let me reword my request... from personal experience, where are the good
train shops in the Akron area?

dlm

>> I may have asked this once before, but I don't remember getting an
>> answer.
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> Rob

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Geezer - 29 Sep 2005 16:47 GMT

> I'm looking for someone who has "been there." I learned a long time ago
> that ads in the Yellow Pages or even in MR don't mean that there is a good
> train shop on the other end of the trip.
> So, let me reword my request... from personal experience, where are the good
> train shops in the Akron area?
> dlm

I've stopped a couple times at "Nick's Sales and Service" in North Canton,
Ohio. It's a lawn mower / small engine business with a fair selection of HO
and some N. I was last there four or five years ago, so I can't say what it
is like now, but then I'd judge its stock at maybe a third of the Train
Station in Columbus (which I was by recently and also enjoyed), but Nick's
had a lot of interesting and hard to find parts, and seemed to do a fair
business in quality, older used equipment (e.g. Hobbytown of Boston one time
I was there and not just blue box Athearn). Nick's was a little hard to
find - it's out in the country on a 2-lane road; my recollection is that it
was perhaps 8 miles NNE of Canton and about 3 circuitous miles E of the
interstate.

I was in Alliance on business maybe 8 years ago, and there as an interesting
small shop in an older downtown storefront. I don't recall the name and
don't know if it's still there, but if I remember correctly, it had a rather
large layout under construction. I seem to recall it was less than a mile W
of the Alliance Amtrak station, which was then a fairly busy train watching
location. Geezer

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