Can anyone recommend any good LHS’s in the Hartford CT area?
Thanks for the replies.
GS
Hi GS,
The closest I can think of would be the Time Machine on 71 Hilliard St. in Manchester ,fairly large store in an old Bonami Cleanser building. It would be about 15,20 minutes east on I-84 to I-384. They even have some operating layouts. They’re in the back of MR in the retail directory. Tel. 860-646-0610.
Dennis.
Railworks in Danbury CT is the only one I’d reccommend in CT but that’s because the only other one I’ve been to in CT was more into RC cars and Helicopters.
GS
I say Ditto to Time Machine in Manchester. I have family in Glastonbury and when we visit that has to be one of the stops.I can spend hours there!
WC3023
Thanks Guys
I’ll be up next week and have a half a day to burn, I will drop by the Time Machine, I have a Garmin, so no worries. [:D]
For starters, it’s not “Hawtford” if you’re trying to pronounce it correctly. [;)] It’s “Hahtfid”. [:D] Remembah, there’s no “ah” whatsoevah in the State capital of Connecticut. The way some people tawk, you’d think it was a car dealah (“Come on down to Heart Ford on the Automile!”).
As for a good hobby shop, try “War and Pieces” in West Hartford (provided they are still there). They don’t have much for trains (basically new locos from Atlas and Athearn, but Bachmann and Life-Like junk for cars, track, and details), however, “War and Pieces” is a great plastic shop. They have plastic armor, air planes, autos, ships, and even anime models. They also have a good to excellent book selection on all kinds of military hardware and the like. Last time I was there, they were also getting into die cast collectible models. They also had tools, RPG games, paint, etc. IMHO, a darn good hobby shop (just not much for trains). It’s about a 100 miles from my house, and I’ve made several trips over the years just to go there (tho’ I haven’t been there in about 3 years).
Paul A. Cutler III
Weather Or No Go New Haven
[(-D] Thanks for the laugh Paul. I always get it bakwahds, but, when I leave Hahtfid, I going to see a good friend in Pee-ba-die MA.
He promised me some wicked good lobstah. [:D]
You must be one of those damn Yankees (or maybe damn Red Socks?), folks who live east of Woostah. Us westerners, folks who grew up west of Worcester (Springfield), always knew how to pronounce Hart-ferd correctly. However, I do have to confess that it wasn’t until I took first year college English that I discovered that there was not an “r” in idea(r).
[:)] Depends on who you talk to. I don’t really considah myself a “yankee”, even tho’ just about the entiuh rest of the planet would. From wiki:
To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.
Techincally speakin’, I’m descended from swamp yankees (those who wuh not financially well off). Both sides of my family have been living in these pahts for almost 400 yeeiz, with stops in Vahmont and Pennslyvaniar along the way. One of these days, the rest of yuz will settle down and speak correctly. Aftah all, we wuz heeyah fuhst! [;)]
Paul A. Cutler III
Boston joke: “So I’m at Haymahket Squayuh, and some guy from Atlanter or Alabammer ahsks me how to get to the Hahbuh. ‘That’s easy,’ I sez. 'Just walk East ‘till ya hat floats!’”
My buddy I work with moved down here (Louisiana) from Everett MA, he told me he used to think the “Deep South” was New Jersey !! [(-D]
Heh. Let’s put it this way. To most New Haven fans, the Pennsy is one of those interesting Western prototypes…just like the Santa Fe and the Union Pacific. [C):-)]
Paul A. Cutler III
Maine joke: Visitor - "Does it matter which way I go to get to Bangor? Native - “Not to me it don’t.”