Wal-Mart

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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I have heard a few of you mention that Wal-Mart has Athearn HO freight and or others.

I have never, ever seen anything related to a hobby train on the shelves, but I decided to take a look.

Here in the Dallas TX area, no such luck. What part of the country are you seeing them at Wal-Mart.

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I think what you heard about are freight cars that are nearer to TT scale in size. The only time I see HO trains at Wal-Mart is at Christmas.

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Ours in middle Georgia stock some sort of Athearn sets year round. Usually something stupid like the John Deere stuff, but they have something. Now come close to Christmas, it’s a whole different ballgame.

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I guess about the flashiest one they’ve had here was the Athearn Coca-Cola set. Classic and Diet Coke.

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The thing many of us have been finding at Wal-Mart is die-cast model automobiles in 1:87 scale. These are generally available elsewhere, but Wal-Mart has been selling a bunch of the older ones for under $2, over in the toy section with the race cars and action figures. Recently a new batch has been showing up at my LHS, and I’ve picked up a couple of, well, pickups.

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Mister B, You would have to say that. Every one has pickups but me, feel sorry for me??? send me your pickups, LOL Mike

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Yes, I bought some Malibu’s a few weeks ago. But they did not have any pickups either.

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Pick ups? what year pick ups? are the painted decently?