Looking for Trains & Locomotives in NYC - Model Railroad Store & Grand Central
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- čas přidán 7. 02. 2024
- I recently went on a trip to New York City and decided to check out a couple of railroad related destinations while I was there. The first was a hobby shop called the Red Caboose, the second was the famous Grand Central terminal.
At one of the terminals there were two P32 heritage units sitting side by side, New Haven No. 331 and No. 229 I had previously seen 229 in December of 2013 so I was surprised to find it there again all these years later.
I didn't end up purchasing anything but I still had an amazing time there. - Zábava
I'M a native New Yorker and the Red Caboose is a "Classic Old School Hobby Store." It's managed to survive for 70 plus years, and many places like this have become extinct. I'll pay the extra buck because the service is great, it has the vintage vibes, and I want to see it go another 50 years! Thank you for the post!
Please tell me where it is? NYC is not a small town.
@@josephshields2922 Adress: 23 W 45th St # B, New York, NY 10036 You can even look it up on google
Basement of 23 W45th street. It's a brilliant store, I've been a couple of times.
I grew up in Manhattan and used to go to this store when I was a kid (in the 1960s). So happy you got to see the place!
Where is it?
I'm glad you saw half of the New Haven P32s. The four in New Havne paint are owned by CTDOT. The red and blue one next to them, number 208, is also a Heritage unit painted in the early Metro-North colors
The Red Caboose is a NYC LEGEND!!!💥🔥🔥🔥❤️
Is this a "Secret location"?? Everyone talking about it but no one tells us WHERE it is??
I always love seeing those New Haven heritage Units whenever I'm in New Haven. The McGuiness paint scheme looks so good on them
A few years ago my daughter and son-in-law were at this store and brought me two locomotives, I was very happy with the purchases, when I have the opportunity I will visit this store in person.
Thank you very much Harrison I cant believe how generous this is I am Stoked thanks again cheers Steve
My pleasure. I received your email, I'll get your locomotive shipped soon.
I've been to red caboose in 1998 and it still looks the same :-)
Enjoyed your trip to NY... Pleasant video after a long day at work!
Was on holiday from the UK and visited this place ...was very interesting to a British enthusiast....glad its still going
Excellent loved to see that store and NH units in NYC
In my youth, 23 West 45th Street was the home of Model Railroad Equipment Corporation. It was run by Carmen Webster, and was a hangout for model railroaders in Radio, TV and show business. Probably some of the stuff you picked-over in those boxes was was gone through by my father in the 1950's to the 1970's... Another NYC legend was Polk's. Of course, you couldn't ignore AHC -America's Hobby Center, with its big ads every monyj in MR, RMC, etc.
The Red Caboose, a vey nice store, I got a few locomotives there.
And the guy who works there, very good service as well
Next time I am in NYC I will have to check out the Red Caboose. Looks like a great place to search around for hard to find older items. Thanks for the heads up.
This would be such a great place to check out if I ever get to take a trip up to New York and if I do go I will definitely not regret checking this store out because it looks amazing!!!👍👍
This is awesome man. In Honolulu Hawaii we have nothing like this it really sucks. Got to go online for new / used stuff
As a native New Yorker- I freaking LOVE the Red Caboose. So glad you got to visit!
Some of the best selection I've seen
I visited the Red Caboose a few times over 20 year's ago...cant believe they are still in business...i bought a few Proto 2000 E units that had water damaged boxes due to rain water getting into the subterranean store through the ancient walls
SMT heads to New York. Just like the Gremlins. I gotta work at 07:00 so I'll review later. Have fun....and it's NYC, don't be so damn polite.
Hey SMT big fan I love The Trip to New York and its rare Seeing the Heritage P32s and the train store tour. I want The DCC model trains to add to my collection. I love Your Channel. Love Brenden
it would have been cool to see you in the 229 train today. But it cool to know there still using it. What an Awesome trip
Will put this place on my bucket list. Keep up you great videos
That is a cool store. I live in the area now and it's nice that it is right in midtown. He has the inventory to square footage ratio maxed out like nowhere I've seen.
I visited The Red Caboose in late 2022 when I had a class that took place in the city. It's a super cool store and I absolutely love the stairway down into the place. Same as you, I didn't get anything either. (Although I do have a business card from the place so I guess that counts for something). I definitely want to go back at some point.
During my visit to New York in 2018, one of the most important destinations was the Red Caboose. A sensational store. A few hours and many hundreds of dollars later, I was back outside with several subway trains. And I would do it again ;-)
I saw Billy Joel in San Francisco a few years ago. What a fantastic show. We we were lucky and had seats in the 4th row from the stage.
I would absolutely love to have one but I’m not in tune with DCC just yet. Just one month into trains so I’m strictly using DC. Love the content. I’ve learned quit a bit just by watching your videos.
You should plan/do a model train store grand tour of the USA and Canada where you hit like 100 train stores! This could be a lot of fun for viewers and give great exposure to some smaller train shops. You could stop by some other Train channels and do a cameo on their videos. And you would get to see the countries!
That would be awesome. I'd love to buy an old RV, gut part of it to build a layout and do something like that.
Great video! Outstanding! Loved the train shop.
I've been to NYC 4 years ago and I completely obsessed over the subways, and visited the red caboose as well
That store looks amazing!
Congrats to the winners🎉🎉🎉 me and my little brother like watching your livestreams every now and then we enjoy your videos we’re doing some budget layouts for now until I can get a good one for my little brother
Amazing, i love these locomotives, i only have one of North America, big store of trains, in Portugal we have small stores of trains, and is all about europen trains. I like very much of your videos.
Lucky you seeing Billy Joel in concert. I had a pint with him in Dublin many years ago. I visited Red caboose in 1998. Super store. Loved your video of same.
Nice to see you take a visit to the red caboose! Was able to get my hands on a Proto 2000 B&O gp7 while I was there
4:19
see that engine behind the New Haven unit? that's ANOTHER heritage unit! 3 HU's parked side by side is certainly a rare sight.
I was wondering that. What are the chances of seeing three in one location
@@SMTMainlineIt’s actually quite common in Grand Central station surprisingly
wow the Red Caboose i went there 40 years ago wow
Bought my first New York Central locomotives and rolling stock at this store! Even though it's a small business, he does have a lot of stock. It is fun to just walk around and look at everything.
Cool trip and contest, Harrison, congrats to the winners!
Wow, fun visit to the Red Caboose. Used to visit, and spend money back in the late 80s when I had business up in NYC. Nothing like spending a free Saturday afternoon dreaming. I did haul out a Riverossi E8A power/dummy set in Kansas City Southern livery, which began my building of a KCS passenger consist back in Atlanta over the next few years.
Looking good
very cool shop indeed ,Bro !
I live outside New Haven CT, and see the units in service often.
Very cool trip. FYI, Billy Joel and Sting are coming to San Antonio later this year. From Texas
I pass by the store four or five times a year, my son lives in the city. It’s a great store. I’m also glad you enjoyed your trip to NYC.
Hi smt mainline my name is Jules and I am 15 and ever since my Nan gave me my first trains I found your channel and it was so cool to se you fix all the trains and it help me so thanks for that and I can’t stop watching you and I wish I could see you in real life and to get some help to make my own layout like you so I thank you for everything you have done and to keep up on the good work and to never stop what you do
That’s my local store!! The selection is pretty good I go almost like every Thursday if I get a chance!!
I was amazed that there was no mention of American Flyer in your visit to the Red Caboose shop. I would have expected at least some in the collector category. We had a pretty nice setup in the mid-fifties LOL.
Hey SMT, i had gotten one of the mystery boxes after that video and had gotten the U25B high nose Frisco locomotive. Mine didnt have any issues like yours so that is weird that yours did. Anyway i enjoyed everything else that i had gotten.
gotta love trains!
Pretty cool that you went to the red caboose and looked around some train stuff.
Great video harry!
It was so cool to see you in New York mate hope you had fun SMT
Very generous of you on that giveaway...
Fun trip to New York. Hope you had some time to see the city.
1:24 That Delta A350 would have come home with me, that is for sure!
i got a sw7 from a train show and itd start up and all the lights and sounds worked but it didnt move. took it to a train shop and all it needed was a reset and it worked
i like how they have literally everythink you can think of
But not the price.
When I lived in New York City in the 1990s, I used to visit the Red Caboose occasionally. I wonder if the same owner was still there when you visited. I remember that he used to sit behind the counter with his black cat perched on his shoulder.
Ah,The Red Caboose. Where the owner when asked to recommend a train set for a young nephew suggested a Fleischmann set, because we all know that young US boys will really find that a good basic introduction to model railroading.
It will be interesting to see your review of this store. Too bad you couldn't make the subway ride out to Brooklyn and TrainWorld.
He seemed very 'opinionated' on my visit as well. Still a cool place to see though.
A great place. 👍👍
Can't wait
I have shopped the Red caboose for years and worked for Metro North RR as a contractor. Goos stuff!
Every Trip over To NYC from Queensland Australia I find myself at the Red Caboose for hours , Apart from Die Cast In Japan and China this Shop is a must when in NYC . Packed to the Roof and Some 😂🫶
Congrats to the winners! This year I got my first Rapido mystery box, and was really hoping for a CP E8 in maroon. :) As luck would have it, I did get a CP E8, but it was in red with the pac-man logo. Still a huge win, to me. It looks like last year they did mystery boxes through the year, as well (a standard one, and a premium one with a loco). Hopefully they'll do that again this year.
I remember I visited New York once when I was a kid, while there me and my dad went to a train store which definitely wasn't this one. Everything was extremely overpriced, and I remember feeling super disappointed they didn't have a single train that was reasonably priced. Was seeing comments on this video that this store is of a similar nature, I wonder if that's just how hobby stores are in the big city or if it's just something weird that happened twice.
I went to a different store in NYC back in 2013 (I don't recall the name) I remember them being pretty friendly but don't recall the prices however I did buy some stuff.
SMT by now should have enough locomotives to start his own hobbyshop
I’ve been to that store many times it’s a interesting experience
Oh man, I have not been in the Red Caboose in years! It's the last surviving train shop in Manhattan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very cool train store. Did you meet the owner? He’s …. umm… interesting. I lasted 5 minutes, I was afraid to knock something or someone over. lol. Great footage as always.
I did meet the owner, he must care about the well being of people's wallets because he makes sure you won't want to buy anything. I did like looking through the store but unfortunately they didn't seem to have any Swiffers or hospitality corses in stock that day. Lol
Twice you mentioned you went to “Grand Central Station”. Where you actually went was Grand Central Terminal. Grand Central Station is the main United States Post Office in New York City.
You're not wrong but I've people refer to it as both. www.britannica.com/topic/Grand-Central-Station
It is definitely referred to both ways. That Britannica entry surprisingly offers no clarity on the proper technical usage. Trains run THROUGH a station, basically a stop along the route. A terminal is a stub-end facility where trains originate or terminate. Great channel.
@@ctrlzyx2 Yes, two ways......the right way and the wrong way. It's a terminal. Anybody who says different is clueless.
Congratulations to the winners!
I was hoping for that go train😢
Awesome recording man. I haven’t been to the red caboose in years.
Its was Great thanks Alot
hello SMT Mainiline & it's is Randy and i like yours video is cool & Thanks SMT Mainiline Friends Randy
You cae to NYC and didn't say hello!!! Bummer that I missed meeting you!!
I wasn't aware until I saw your tour of this store that you lived in NYC. I wish I had known
You got to see Billy Joel in concert???? Right now, I AM SO JEALOUS!!!!!
Great trip! I hope someday to go to New York :)
That's really cool you went to New York to go to that hobby shop in heck you got to see Billy Joel in concert that's awesome I've only seen one of those New Haven heritage locomotives going into CT. I think they usually run up the i-95 corridor. Another one must go from Waterbury CT down the Bridgeport line. Or there is one that goes up through Hartford I believe thru Springfield Mass. I think it's neat that Connecticut wants to hold on to that railroad heritage. I mean there is a CZcams video that claims New Haven was the great railroad of its time. I know they were very meticulous of maintenance. Unlike Penn Central when they took over.
Brilliant vid mate, really enjoyed and its cool to see how different American shops/trains are to our British counterparts! It would be great to see you review some British trains as well - they can be very different to American ones!
I'd like to visit some shops in England at some point. I'm sure they would carry all kinds of things I've never seen before.
I went here when visiting NY as a kid in 2008
In NYC there’s another hobby shop called train world, I can tell NYC has more hobby shops than in the Toronto area
Very nice shop smt mainline 👍
I’m subscribed to one of the best CZcams channels
😲😲👍👏french
I’ve been there. Very cool store
Hey SMT. In grand central you actually saw 3 heritage units. The vintage Metro north one based off the FL9’s was in the far left!
Hello Mr, Harrison Seans That is special that a store in New York sells European trains, Because I saw models lying around that i drive through our Country in Belgium every day, Nice to see and in what price classes yours fall, Here with us they are between 300 and400 Euro, I don`t know how much that is in Dollars, But it is special to see, I also saw that you have worked hard on your job, It looks nice, I also watch your channel a lot, You are repairing a locomotive, It`s beautiful, Kind Regards, Henk van Zitteren from Belgium, Machinist at the NMBS Railway😀😉
I was surprised by how much in terms European they had. I'm looking to add more to my collection, is there any locomotives you recommend?
Hello Harrison Seans,What i can recommend are Locomotives,From Roco/Marklin /Trix or Ls Models, (1) Article 61449-61450 Is a Dutch loc Ns 1200, van Roco,(2) Is a Dutch loc Ns 1300 Article Ho-Hr 2254 AC direct version or Rivarossie direct current,(3) Loc Vectra 193 Article 25198 of Trix,Is a niew Dutch Loc,(4) Ns 1700 Is a Dutch Loc for Passenger Article 25160 of Trix, (5) Ns 1600 Is for Goods/Passenger Traffic, (Article-70160/Dc-4/1 Roco) 2(70161/Dcc-4/1 Roco) (3)78161/Ac-2/2 direct current) These are 3 Different types of Locomotives, And a train set from Roco under Article no69139 Ac direct current, And we still have models from Belgium. This is from the company Ls Models, The series 2829 is A Trax locomotive, From the 186 series, (1) Item12140 Silver green white nose,Benelux traffic I also drive this train, (2) Series 1501 Art,12033 Blue Yellow line and gray roof,(3) Series 1805 Art,12043,Grey/Inox Yellow and light blue band,(4) Series 1860/2 Art 12214 White Yellow front edges,We drive these in Push/Pull Formation, (5) Series 22 Art-Ho-VB-3301-Full Sound, For Goods/Passenger traffic throughout the Country,(6)Series 23 Art-Ho-VB-3006, These Locomotives are Heavier than the Series 22, But also for goods and travelers, This all Ls Models, I hope you can benefit from this Seans Harrison This is Info for You E-Mail : info@lsmodels.com And This is mijn E-Mail- vanzitteren@ziggo.nl Best regards from Henk van Zitteren from Belgium Border😀👍
Man!! I've been wanting to go here for a long time!
Being only 30 minutes away and all!
Too bad I don't have my license lol
Good to know they still have E60s there
Dieses Geschäft habe ich durch Zufall entdeckt 😊. Unglaublich viele Sachen. 👍. Ich war überrascht von dieser Masse an Eisenbahnen.
0:52 Least we know that they have Thomas & Oliver from TTTE. Thinking about collecting those two? Or are you not a TTTE fan?
I liked watching the original show as a kid but I don't feel the need to add the models to my collection.
@@SMTMainline Let me guess. Too expensive?
Billy Joel and trains! How can you go wrong!? Speaking of heritage trains I was at a presentation about the Wakefield train this week and we got talking about your model of it.
I heard about that meeting. I can't wait to see the youtube release from the Brs
Hey SMT you missed a heritage unit in GCT MNRR 208(P32ACDCM) was painted up in the MNRR beach ball scheme that their old FL9s used to wear
There’s a few more heritage units that metro north has the New Haven units are owned by the Connecticut department of transportation they have 4 units painted in the New Haven scheme one of the nh units 230 is a double heritage unit since they added penn central logos below the windows. In the background of you looking at the nh units is the 1st of the mta heritage units number 208 in the fl9 beachball livery. They also have 201 wrapped in a conrail livery and 211 in a New York central lighting stripe wrap and they are planning two more units
you need to hit wisconsin one of these days there's like 5 trains shops around Milwaukee
I'm jealous you got to see the Pianoman in concert
😮I guess trainworld isn’t the only place to go for model trains in New York
I wish I could find a train or even a hobby store locally that had just half of what that place has
The Red Caboose is an interesting place. If you're looking for it they probably have it. Now will you pay top retail for it, yes but they have it. Because they usually don't budge pricewise from the high retail price marked, they have a lot of out of production stuff. You will pay for it, but again they have a lot of out of production stuff right there. It is someplace I go sort of regularly working in NYC. In the NYC area, Trainworld in Brooklyn, Ridgefield hobby in Ridgefield Park NJ and IF you want an hour plus ride, Trains and Lanes in Easton PA are all well worth visiting as well.
I went to a train show not too long ago And I got a lot of trains and switches, and I caught a Amtrak locomotive that needs service