Sorry to see this. I visited the Niagara Hobbies every summer after finishing a music seminar at SUNY Fredonia. I began doing this back in 2007. Back then I was really impressed with the variety of their inventory, including a huge doll house selection .... which I found lots of things that worked on my O gauge layout. At that time their train selection was pretty good and they a nice in store layout. They seemed to carry some train related things that I could not find anywhere else.
On one of my visits, I bought a Lamar Outdoor advertising bill board that used to be part of their store layout. On my layout it proudly welcomes visitors to 'Patsburg Home of the Free State Junction Railway'. A piece of Niagara Hobbies layout now keeps living on my layout. I also bought window flower boxes from their huge doll house inventory.
Over the last few years I noticed the train selection dwindle a lot. Last year all the doll house inventory was gone and that section of the store was pretty much empty. They always had a lovely real caboose outside! I did not stop by there this summer. Sorry to hear they are gone.
