25th Annual Model Railroad Garage Sale

The 25th annual Model Railroad Garage sale is coming up fast. Mark September 6, 2025 on your calendar as you will not want to miss this wonderful event. It is a terrific way for those just starting in the hobby to find some items, meet others in the hobby, gain ideas, and share in discussions. Many have also found that sought-after treasure on someone’s table that was just what they needed to bring some life to their own layout.

This event is hosted FREE of charge for both vendors and customers. It is put on as a modellers-for-modellers day to help spread the word that Model Railroading is a fun and fulfilling hobby for all ages. While this event only lasts 4 hours, many hours are spent on the planning and set up of the event. As long as the interest to attend is strong we will continue to put this event on. It runs from 9am - 1pm with vendors allowed to start setting up as early as 6:30am.

Many have already signed up to be vendors, and spaces are filling up quickly. We will be taking reservations for vendors until August 30, 2025 so if you wish to attend this year as a vendor please let us know ASAP.

Also this year, we will again have the community table. For those that are not familiar with how the table works, it is a way for people to bring just a few things and leave them for sale at the event. If you wish to bring items for the community table we ask that they be brought into the store already priced no later than August 17, 2025 to have them tagged and set up for the sale. All remaining items and money from the items sold are to be picked up by the end of September. If you wish more info on putting items on the table please feel free to contact me via phone at 519-807-2345 or email carol@countylinecaboose.ca, or send a private message through Facebook.

Get out your pen and circle September 6th on your calendars and come on out to share in the fun and excitement of the 25th Annual Model Railroad Garage Sale.

Please note, the donations received from each year’s event are put back into improving the next year’s event. If you have ideas that you would like to see put into place for upcoming events please share them with us—we want to continue improving this event to ensure it remains something you don’t want to miss.

This event is hosted in the big garage next door as well as tents that are brought in for the event—the event goes ahead rain or shine.

Wow 30 Years

Well 2025 marks our 30th year.  Many things have changed since we opened in 1995, but the one thing that remains the same is we are a full service Model Train only store that is here to help our fellow modellers. 

We have had a full journey of changes, from being able to order the same products over and over to the pre-order model that is now the norm. 

A lot of the Canadian manufacturers that we once had access to (some great products I may add) have since disappeared for many different reasons – leaving some holes in the Canadian market.

DCC has evolved since 1995 in ways that no one would have thought when it was first more massively introduced so many years ago.  This is an area that still to this day evolves and keeps getting better.

Key dates from our journey so far:

1995 - Open in the caboose with half ice cream and half model train store

2000 - out grow caboose and move train store to the yellow building we are in today

2018 - add the Depot (estates and consignment) store to the business in the big white and green building beside the store

2025 - 30 years of serving the model railroad community and looking forward to many more – watch for a customer appreciation weekend to be announced for the fall

Seniors’ Day

We now have a Seniors’ Day the last Friday of every month.  For those 60+ enjoy 10% off your purchases both in the new store and the depot.  Items that are excluded from this are magazines, special order items, repairs, decoders and decoder systems, anything that is already on a reduced special.

Here are a list of the Seniors’ Days for 2025:

August – Friday August 29, 2025

September – Friday September 26, 2025

October – Friday October 31, 2025

November – Friday November 28, 2025

December – Closed for Boxing Day

Coming soon

Watch for the following new products that should be arriving in the store. If there is something that interests you, contact us and we will set it aside for you when it arrives. If there is a new product not on the list that you know is coming out and would like to reserve, please drop us a line and we will be happy to order it for you.

• Canadian Trains 2026 Wall Calendar (CAL-2026)
• Restocking of T-shirts in sizes S to 3XL
• Kato N GE P42 Standard DC VIA Rail Canada #901 (381-176-6042)
• Kato N GE P42 VIA Rail Canada #917 (381-176-6043)
• Walthers Proto HO Scale Test Car – Canadian National #52258 (920-105302)

Still lots of Summer Left

With the ice cream side of operations in high gear our train store hours are also extended.  Take advantage of these longer hours as you are out on your travels this summer.

Our summer hours as follows:

Monday	Closed, but available by appointment
Tuesday	Closed, but available by appointment
Wednesday	3pm – 8pm
Thursday	3pm – 8pm
Friday	Noon – 8pm
Saturday	9am – 8pm
Sunday	10am – 8pm

Everyday Low Prices

We always try to keep our prices competitive while keeping a good selection of new stock flowing in.  Here are some of the everyday items that you need to keep your layout maintained and your projects flowing:

• Kadee #5 Couplers (380-5) $7.39
• Testors Plastic Cement Tube of Glue (704-3501) $4.00
• Atlas code 100 flex track (150-168B) box of 25 $189.99
• Xuron track cutters (XUR-90028) $28.79
• Midwest cork road bed HO (472-3013B) $63.99
• NCE Power Cab (524-25) $264.99

Keeping on track faster

You can get all the up-to-date pre-order and new release info from our Facebook page, or if you are not a Facebook follower you can always log on to our website to see the feed of info there.  Check often as I am constantly posting items that will be coming and those that are arriving.

Special orders not a problem

Did you know that we do a lot of special orders?  Special orders are easy to place: just send us the product number and the description and we will order it for you.  There is no need for a deposit at the time the order is placed.  We will order it in and let you know when it arrives and you can pick it up.

Pre-orders are the same policy: see a product that is announced for future release that you want, just need to order it—no deposit needed for most items.