Hello from Quebec City!
If you were wondering why I haven’t posted in a few days it’s because I am in “La Belle Province”. I drove to Montreal on Monday and spent all day Tuesday and most of today (Wednesday) visiting Metro grocery stores for work. However, I did mange to work in a visit to Hobby Junction, on Derwin’s recommendation.
I was surprised how easy it was to find the store. Once I got heading in the right direction on the right road that is. I was driving down Cardinal Ave. looking for the store and saw a convenience store that I was also looking for. As I was looking for a parking spot I saw Hobby Junction in the same strip mall. How lucky was that!
I had intended to take some pictures to include in this post, but I was so caught up in finding the store and browsing I completely forgot!
Anyway, I spent about an hour there looking at all the stuff. Sure, it’s convenient to buy on-line, but there’s nothing like browsing through a train store and seeing the products in person. They didn’t have what I was looking for in stock, but I did manage to drop a few coins in their counter.
I’ll fill you in in more detail later in future postings, but I bought a few automobiles, a couple CP piggy-back trailers (so I can make up a flat car like Don Parnell’s that I’ve envied for so long), a Bar-Mills small structure, a few Athearn freight car kits (old ones of course), and a few other odds and ends.
Now, I should go look in the yellow pages to see if there’s a train store in Quebec City!
Later!
Scott
Wondered why you were so quiet …. believed that you may have been chained to a ban saw wrking on Christmas items
Doug
Ha! Most of our tole painting is done for this season, thankfully. So very little scroll saw work until next fall.
Scott
Hey Scott,
Glad to read that the layout is progressing and that you had a successful trip to QC.
Are you and the Half Nuts gang operating over the holidays? We’re there for the entire Christmas week (I think) from Dec. 22′ish to the following weekend.
Steve
Hey scott,
Great website btw. I too managed to get to hobby Junction when I was in Montreal in early december. I was quite impressed by the stock that was there and, like you, I dropped a little money in the local economy before I left. I am hoping to get there again in the new year as well as Van Horne hobbies in laval.
Cheers,
Jamie
I may be back that way again in the next few months. I’ll have to look up Van Horne Hobbies. There was another one in Montreal that Derwin mentioned was very large.
Thanks for visiting Jamie!
Scott
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