Visited there many times.
I visited Madison Hardware one time in the middle 60’s with my dad. We took a Thanksgiving weekend and rode the train from Florence,SC to Pennsylvania Station. On the train trip my dad asked me what I wanted to see in NY as this was my first trip there. My answer was:
The observation deck at the Empire State Building and
Madison Hardware Train shop.
I remember that one and only one key making machine. So much for hardware.LOL.
Leon Butler
@Apples55 posted:105 East 23rd Street… a couple of doors off Park Ave. South - north side of the street.
Thanks!
They were the only place my dad knew that would repair trains. He had his 248 'refreshed' and they rebuilt an R transformer in 1984. I still have both and they work just fine. I remember how overwhelming the store was but the transactions were professional.
We had a great store in the Bronx called Honig's Parkway that had seasonal trains.....which worked for me because trains were seasonal for me at that time.
I "discovered" Madison Hardware from ads in Model Railroader but never ventured there until much older, probably December 1982, and purchased a 6572 Refrigerator car at that time.
Peter
How long did it last in Detroit? Thanks.
@Putnam Division posted:We had a great store in the Bronx called Honig's Parkway that had seasonal trains.....which worked for me because trains were seasonal for me at that time.
I "discovered" Madison Hardware from ads in Model Railroader but never ventured there until much older, probably December 1982, and purchased a 6572 Refrigerator car at that time.
Peter
I remember Honigs Parkway, they had the trains in the back. I live in White Plains and went there a few times for train in the late 70's.
