Headed to State College, PA for a meeting. Any hobby shops in the area??

YES.....plan to visit Forster's Train Shop in the village of Lemont. Jim has a great store with a huge inventory of Lionel, MTH , Williams and some nice post war locos and rolling stock.

Jim is located at 140 Mary Street Lemont Pa 16851. Phone...814 237 7899. The shop is located in the beautifully restored Lemont Station that served The Bellefonte Central Railroad long ago.

Please tell Jim "hi" for me.....and that I regret not taking him up on a great deal on a nice new set of Williams Alcos.  Merry Christmas....Tom Shirey

Thanks Tom, I will send Jim your regards.

Merry Christmas to you as well! 

Take your snowshoes.

Ah, what's a little snow!!

Too bad you will not be there on the 14th.  There will be an auction of the closed Nittany Hobbies Train Store.  The last train shop in State College, it closed a few years ago.  A lot of product and an outdoor auction.

Headed home on Friday so I will miss it. Maybe I'll be the one less bidder that will let you get what you want!  Sounds like you are going so have fun and good luck!!

No Jeff, I won't be going.  I was told about it from Rick Neely of Altoona.  He will be there for sure.  He owns the big train store in Altoona.  He's been buying collections lately, as well as much new product from Lionel.