Eastern Iowa LHS recommendations ?

Caboose Stop Hobbies has a LOT of stuff.

Very good and well stocked store.

Dick

They are extremely disorganized,  but they have a lot of merchandise !!   I would recommend it !!!

Caboose Stop Hobbies was a regular at Wheaton (dunno that show's current status) and the Chicago O scale show, where l last saw them .  But is that the only Iowa shop?  I last raided Iowa for train shops when "Bridges of Madison County" was the current movie.

I bought a hard to find Atlas car from them. They seem to stock a lot of Atlas. Old school store. Phone orders. But they seem to frequently do You Tube. Showing what they have in stock or specials. You can check the store out there and see if it’s worth the trip.

Caboose Stop Hobbies is a must if you're in central or eastern Iowa. Plan on spending a couple of hours looking around and digging through boxes. It's not the most organized, so be prepared and the Atlas room in the back can be a little precarious, I'm always afraid I might knock something over and get buried alive. That being said, I always walk out with a few items and regularly find things I can't find anywhere else.

Just a followup to this thread regarding Caboose Stop Hobbies in downtown Cedar Falls, IA.   If you're passing thru the Midwest this summer, this place is worth the trip.  Old school train store, nice people, seating for 4 in the center of the store to discuss trains, or solve world problems, lol.   The charm, for me, is the time spent poking around in search of hidden treasures.  They seem to practice the LIFO inventory system, (last-in, first-out) so new stuff obscures the older inventory, how about a new MTH Milw TM w/ Proto 1 - it's there !   A mom & pop team have run the store for 50 yrs.  When I asked about retirement plans, the wife said "I'm gonna keep going until they find me curled up in a corner".    Rich, back in SD