I now modeled in HO, and I was hoping to score some new HO stuff for the layout I was building at home. My first trip to San Antonio was to visit my grandparents after a stop at Ces & Ronny's. Skip a few years to January 1977, my second semester at college, in Seguin, TX, when I had my first car. I still have all of my Lionel equipment, although it has been in storage for years. Don't ask me why I wanted it, I never had more than two engines, but I had the capability of running 4 trains at once, if I wanted to.
My greatest purchase was a used ZW275 transformer. I would save my birthday money to buy used cars. I was only focused on the Lionel room there was lots and lots of stuff, including used equipment. Inside, there were individual rooms dedicated to different scales. There was an elevated half loop of 4 1/2 inch track around the back side of the house I assume at some time, the loop extended all around the house. On several occasions, I was taken to Ces & Ronny's hobby shop.
My grandparents lived in San Antonio, TX when I was young, and as I had been given a Lionel train set when I was 6 I was always begging to go to a train store whenever we were in San Antonio. Inspired by several posters in the diner, tell us about the first hobby shop you can remember visiting and/or utilizing.
