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About
PublicDeliveryTrack
"WE KNOW TRAINS" See our "Wall of Trains", our 75' + long model train show display at:
Greenberg Train Show, Edison, NJ – Aug 11 & 12, 2012 TCA E Div, York, PA Fairgrounds – Oct 18, 19 & 20, 2012 Cal-Stewart, Ontario, CA – Nov 3 & 4, 2012 ATMA “First Frost”, Allentown, PA – Nov 10 & 11, 2012 Greenberg Train Show, Edison, NJ – Nov 24 & 25, 2012 Great Train Expo, Anaheim, CA – Jan 5 & 6, 2013 Great Train Expo, Sacramento, CA – Jan 19 & 20, 2013 O Scale West, Santa Clara, CA – Jan 25 & 26, 2013 ATMA “Spring Thaw”, Allentown, PA – Feb 23 & 24, 2013 Greenberg Train Show, Edison, NJ -- Mar 16 & 17, 2013
Greenberg Train Show, Wilmington, DE -- Mar 23 & 24, 2013
TCA E Div, York, PA Fairgrounds – April 18, 19 & 20, 2013 Unlike a lot of others selling model trains, I'm a bona fide train nut. Back in the 1960's, I used to walk from junior high school down to the train station in Closter, NJ, (pop. 4000) and wait for the local freight and the 3 evening passenger trains to come through. I thought the GP-7's, RS-3's, Stillwell passenger cars, and the 9 local businesses that had freight rail service, would last forever. (Today...no passenger trains, and 2 freight rail customers left.) I did manage to purchase the train station signs that once proudly displayed "CLOSTER", after the station was converted to a residence, years later.
My model train interest (I hate to admit it) started with dad buying a Lionel train set in the 1960's. It was packed away after the 1st holiday season of use, and I was the only one interested in getting it out again. After a while, that Lionel New Haven EP-5 (I had never seen a real one) had to go, so I traded it at a local train store for a GP-7. Then I managed to buy a set of Lionel trains from a kid in school. Among other things, I gained an NW-2, another engine that typically came thru town on the local freight. This was the fledgling beginning of a model train business.
Today we have most of our eastern railroad inventory on the east coast, and the western railroad stuff in Paso Robles, CA. We are now spending most of our time in SP territory, but go back to PRR's domain for our east coast shows. We sell at about 20 train shows a year, all in PA, NJ, or CA, with our 65' to 85' long "wall of trains". At the huge York, PA show, we are the meet staff for the Brown Hall, and have a 750 sq foot booth there. As my original interest was (and still is) with real trains, our model business mainly is with good quality real scale models of the real thing. No, we don't have aquarium cars, or cop and hobo cars. We have a few commemorative cars at times, as we acquire them as part of larger purchases. But mostly...it's O gauge models of the real thing.
I also have a pretty good knowledge of real railroads, which helps our customers. We know the real difference between a GP7 and a GP9 or an RSD12 and an RSD15. We know BLT dates, shop dates, COTS data, and accurate paint schemes. Our Railway Equipment Register library goes back to the 1940's. And, yes, we know the difference between 2 rail and 3 rail model trains. Our personal collection is mostly 2 rail: at shows we sell mostly 3 rail. Mail order has been about 50/50. Our 2 rail clientele has been growing as more modelers find out that we stock 2 rail and convert freight and passenger cars between 3 rail and 2 rail when possible.
Thanks for looking at our store. It's a very small part of what we actually have in stock (several hundred engines, and 3000+ freight cars). If you need a specific car or engine for a particular railroad, please contact us--email is best! Please give road name and type of car rather then mfgr's #'s, and whether you want a 2 or 3 rail model.
Thanks for you business,
Beth Marshall
Owner, The Public Delivery Track
pdtrains@earthlink.net
P.S. "Public Delivery Track" is the Pennsylvania RR name for a team track, or station track, as any other railroad would call it.
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