Hello All,
While comming back from my parent's house in May, I stopped at an antique store outside of Beckly, WV. The store is actually the old coal company store of Cranberry, WV. While looking, I asked the owner if he had any model trains, and he showed me to the store basement. There in one of the basement rooms, were different toys that lined shelves that held canned goods back in the day. Within the toys were a variety of HO scale locomotives and rolling stock. He offered to sell the whole lot, including some tinplate, for $60, but I didn't have the money at the time:cry: . However, I managed to rescue from the dark basement a Mantua metal flatcar, another Varney hopper, an Athearn tank car, gondala, hoppers, a Tyco 0-6-0 (cheap one), and a 0-4-0T. I believe it is also a Mantua with a plastic shell. I plan to replace the molded on details, and make it a logging engine.
While comming back from my parent's house in May, I stopped at an antique store outside of Beckly, WV. The store is actually the old coal company store of Cranberry, WV. While looking, I asked the owner if he had any model trains, and he showed me to the store basement. There in one of the basement rooms, were different toys that lined shelves that held canned goods back in the day. Within the toys were a variety of HO scale locomotives and rolling stock. He offered to sell the whole lot, including some tinplate, for $60, but I didn't have the money at the time:cry: . However, I managed to rescue from the dark basement a Mantua metal flatcar, another Varney hopper, an Athearn tank car, gondala, hoppers, a Tyco 0-6-0 (cheap one), and a 0-4-0T. I believe it is also a Mantua with a plastic shell. I plan to replace the molded on details, and make it a logging engine.
Oh well.... 
