My experience duplicates that of C. Sam and Boomer. When assigned to a school in
Alabama for about two months, I spent the weekends raiding antique shops from
the Mississippi River to north Florida, Atlanta, etc. I came away wondering if Sherman went through last week, because trains were not to be found. (I did find long strings of real Railbox cars covered in kudzu, that I would think would be impossible to move unless you went in first with chain saws) When I first got back into three rail, I saw a Marx 3/16 set in an antique shop window in a town with a nearby large antique mall
(it also rarely having trains). Even before I was up to speed on the then prevalent
lower pricing, I knew it was grossly overpriced. The set was still in their window when
the shop closed several years later. (not fast learners?)
