Trains at Wegmans

Wegman's is my favorite big food store and they're not in Louisville...yet. With or without the trains it's a great experience. We're originally from Bucks County, PA and there have been Wegman's in the area for about 10 years. We miss them. Kroger's almost has a monopoly on the general food stores here. They're converting them to huge, Wegman-like hyper markets. Of course we have our Whole Foods, Fresh Market and Trader Joes in the area so that gives us our Gourmet-food high.

Those Wegmans are great store. Western New York had them and Tops super markets too. But Wegmans was better. I remember when they built the first Wegmans in Niagara Falls NY, which is going back many, many years they had a train overhead. When my daughter moved to Florida she sorely missed them. Anytime she goes back to western New York to visit that is one of her first stops to stockpile items to take back to Florida.  Myself I miss the trains overhead. None here in Ohio since Tops moved out of this area but the wife knows to keep me away from them because if I had the chance I would a G gauge train set..................Paul

Peter,

Thats neat!  I had to look up Wegman's, as I had never heard of them.  I see the nearest one to me is almost 100 miles away in Erie.  The train at the Richmond one looks great!

PS: Glad to read you go to Church first on Sunday's!!

Cool!   I'd shop there for sure! 

paul 2 posted:

Those Wegmans are great store. Western New York had them and Tops super markets too. But Wegmans was better. I remember when they built the first Wegmans in Niagara Falls NY, which is going back many, many years they had a train overhead. When my daughter moved to Florida she sorely missed them. Anytime she goes back to western New York to visit that is one of her first stops to stockpile items to take back to Florida.  Myself I miss the trains overhead. None here in Ohio since Tops moved out of this area but the wife knows to keep me away from them because if I had the chance I would a G gauge train set..................Paul

Paul.....I lived in Buffalo 75-79 when the 1st Wegmans outside of Rochester opened in North Buffalo (78, I think)....It was fabulous....

Peter

Lionel made a couple of  O gauge  sets for Wegmans earlier in this decade as well as separate cars.  I have the 2011 set. 

Check the archives as there's been several threads about them over the years on this Forum. 

Bill

Our local Wegmans has a B&O diesel train running around the ceiling. Very appropriate considering our area is deep in B&O country!

I believe Wegmans employs a guy or two whose job is specifically to maintain the trains in each store. Now, where do I sign up for THAT job!?!?

We have a Wegmans in Johnson City, NY 15MINS away and one in Ithaca NY 40MINS away. They both have trains running overhead in parts of the store, G, I believe! One day I was standing looking up at the train trying to see what boxcars  they had hooked. A guy said to me,"I wondered what you were looking at, I've been coming here a couple of years and I never noticed the trains before, but I will now, thanks!" Not just smelling roses, gotta take time to watch the trains,Lol!

The Wegmans store near Collegeville, Pa has a G scale loop. The Diesel horn blows as it runs along one of the sections.

The local ACE Hardware store has a G scale suspended loop that runs a few laps when you push a button.

I go to the Collegeville Wegmans all the time, the train is a neat touch.

Since I use to sell to Wegmans in Manalapan, NJ, the overhead train would lap around the rear of grocery by my Nabisco cookies. Music to the ears! Saw the service guy one day who showed me the transformer/timer set up and the automatic track that activated the horn. They use USA trains motors in their engines and he changes them out on every other service trip. Finds USA train motors work the best since these trains run on about an 8 hour daily schedule.