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Offline Danny_82  
#1 Posted : 23 December 2015 09:52:56(UTC)
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Does anybody out there remember Opa's Eisenbahn store when it was in business? It was located on Yonge street just off the 401 in Toronto.

Any pictures of the store out there?

thank you

Danny
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Offline jcrtrains  
#2 Posted : 23 December 2015 11:47:31(UTC)
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I remember both locations well but I do not have any pictures.
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Offline michelvr  
#3 Posted : 23 December 2015 15:39:16(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: Danny_82 Go to Quoted Post
Does anybody out there remember Opa's Eisenbahn store when it was in business? It was located on Yonge street just off the 401 in Toronto.

Any pictures of the store out there?

thank you

Danny




Eurotrains, fond memories! Spent large sums of money in both the first store which was upstairs over another business and then the large new ground store! Beautiful place, very nice people, sadly missed!

Now the store to go to is Westend Trains! Who by the way bought Eurotrains. Same as the old, very nice people!

Michel
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Offline Crazy Harry  
#4 Posted : 23 December 2015 15:50:24(UTC)
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I was at the upstairs store once, a long time ago, I believe in the early 1981. He also had a large display window in the lower concourse of Union Station in Toronto. Unfortunately, I never took any pictures.
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#5 Posted : 23 December 2015 16:13:45(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: michelvr Go to Quoted Post
Originally Posted by: Danny_82 Go to Quoted Post
Does anybody out there remember Opa's Eisenbahn store when it was in business? It was located on Yonge street just off the 401 in Toronto.

Any pictures of the store out there?

thank you

Danny




Eurorail Hobbies, fond memories! Spent large sums of money in both the first store which was upstairs over another business and then the large new ground store! Beautiful place, very nice people, sadly missed!

Now the store to go to is Westend Trains! Who by the way bought Eurorail Hobbies. Same as the old, very nice people!

Michel



Am I reading this correctly that Westend Trains now owns Eurorail Hobbies? Or does this refer to a former Eurorail Hobbies in the Toronto area?

Peter
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#6 Posted : 23 December 2015 16:16:38(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: michelvr Go to Quoted Post
Originally Posted by: Danny_82 Go to Quoted Post
Does anybody out there remember Opa's Eisenbahn store when it was in business? It was located on Yonge street just off the 401 in Toronto.

Any pictures of the store out there?

thank you

Danny




Eurorail Hobbies, fond memories! Spent large sums of money in both the first store which was upstairs over another business and then the large new ground store! Beautiful place, very nice people, sadly missed!

Now the store to go to is Westend Trains! Who by the way bought Eurorail Hobbies. Same as the old, very nice people!

Michel



Am I reading this correctly that Westend Trains now owns Eurorail Hobbies? Or does this refer to a former Eurorail Hobbies in the Toronto area?

Peter


Sorry I meant Eurotrains not Eurorails. Westend Trains bought Eurotrains.

Michel
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Offline Danny_82  
#7 Posted : 23 December 2015 20:49:50(UTC)
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I remember both locations well but I do not have any pictures.


They moved during their time in business? Where were the locations of Opa's?

Did Opa's sell and rent train videos?

Danny
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Offline Danny_82  
#8 Posted : 23 December 2015 20:55:31(UTC)
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So where was Euro Trains located? When did they close down, and I am guessing Westend Trains purchased their inventory and assets?

Danny
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Offline jcrtrains  
#9 Posted : 23 December 2015 21:52:58(UTC)
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The original store was on the second floor of a small strip of buildings north of Center on Yonge. It was a tiny store with no real room to display and stock to the ceiling. They then moved south of Steeles on Yonge to a much bigger store in a small strip mall. I think they moved in about 1992. I believe the store closed in about 1995 with the husbands death. His wife sold the inventory to Westend. His wife continued part time in the business more in the second hand market for a few years; I recall seeing her at a few Toronto area shows.

I still have some lovely pieces I bought there. They were a lovely and knowledgeable couple and it was a great store. I don't recall when they opened but I do remember visiting with my Dad when I was in early high school. We bought a Fleischmann Dutch Sprinter. I think that would have been about 1981.
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Offline Danny_82  
#10 Posted : 24 December 2015 00:34:55(UTC)
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The original store was on the second floor of a small strip of buildings north of Center on Yonge. It was a tiny store with no real room to display and stock to the ceiling. They then moved south of Steeles on Yonge to a much bigger store in a small strip mall. I think they moved in about 1992. I believe the store closed in about 1995 with the husbands death. His wife sold the inventory to Westend. His wife continued part time in the business more in the second hand market for a few years; I recall seeing her at a few Toronto area shows.

I still have some lovely pieces I bought there. They were a lovely and knowledgeable couple and it was a great store. I don't recall when they opened but I do remember visiting with my Dad when I was in early high school. We bought a Fleischmann Dutch Sprinter. I think that would have been about 1981.



Thank you for the information about Opa's I did not know Opa had passed away so many years ago. She sold jewery and had a TV playing train videos.

I wonder where Euro Trains was located.

Danny
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#11 Posted : 24 December 2015 05:47:54(UTC)
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Thank you for the information about Opa's I did not know Opa had passed away so many years ago. She sold jewery and had a TV playing train videos.

I wonder where Euro Trains was located.

Danny


The last address I had for Opa's Eisenbahn Eurotrains was 7089 Yonge St. (Grandview Plaza), Markham (north Toronto). Opa's name was Kurt Drombrowski. I had a note that the shop closed in October 1995.
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Offline Danny_82  
#12 Posted : 24 December 2015 09:05:44(UTC)
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The last address I had for Opa's Eisenbahn Eurotrains was 7089 Yonge St. (Grandview Plaza), Markham (north Toronto). Opa's name was Kurt Drombrowski. I had a note that the shop closed in October 1995.


Thank you for the information. I went there with a friend who loved and collected thousands of dollars of Marklin trains. I was like 12-14 years old. I think the store had a green carpet?
Somebody said for much of that year he did not have much left. I wonder which store unit he was inside?

thank you again

Danny
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Offline Soest  
#13 Posted : 04 January 2016 19:52:39(UTC)
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I remember a Marklin store on Eglinton Ave. not far west of Avenue Road. In 1962 the proprietor rewired my Marklin Super transformer from 220 to 110 when we returned from Germany. He also made my 3015 run properly.

Mike
Why do grown men play with trains?
Their wives insist they are insane
But their dreams they won't let down the drain
'Cause there ain't no thing so hard to lose as those disappearing railway blues.
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