There's a general store packed with train memorabilia and weird and wonderful delights from the area.
Hartwig, a genial silver-haired fellow with an office full of kid-friendly train memorabilia, said the girls seemed "pretty miserable".
A Transit Museum spokeswoman said that since it started selling T train magnets, T-shirts, mouse pads and beanie bears in March 2010, T train memorabilia had become the 10th-best-selling line out of 23.
The world seems to have an ever-increasing appetite for collecting unusual old things, be they baseball cards, 1950s Formica furniture or steam train memorabilia, and it's only natural that rare wines are subject to this same collecting mania.
They built model trains in their basement and collected memorabilia from trains about to be scrapped in train yards nearby.
The new tenants are a bowling alley, a baseball training center, a sports memorabilia shop and locker rooms for college ice hockey teams.
NEW ROC CITY, the $190 million entertainment center/hotel and apartment complex that opened in downtown New Rochelle last year, will soon have four new tenants: a bowling alley, a baseball training center, a sports memorabilia shop and locker rooms for college hockey teams.
You are also a railfan if you collect "railroadiana," the memorabilia of trains: dining car china, or steam locomotive whistles, or railroad uniform buttons, or brass rail locks from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
It's crafted from a bright-red 1850s Southern Pacific railcar, which they have dubbed the Fancy Booze Caboose, and inside it is equal parts offbeat rock memorabilia, antique model train collection, and fine wine dispensary.
Dotted around the house, you'll see dollhouses (the world's largest collection of them, in fact), Titanic memorabilia, puppets, model trains, glassware, Venetian masks, billboards, ivory, silverware, shells, furs, tankards... Far too many things to list here, really.
The Bubble Room, 15001 Andy Rosse Lane, Captiva, (941) 472-5558, is worth visiting for its decor alone -- Christmas lights, toy trains, 30's and 40's memorabilia and other whimsies.
