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So the wife got home last night and asked what I did with my Sunday.

Since I had a migraine yesterday, I convalesced most of the morning. I got tired of sitting on my ass so I decided to first take down the Christmas tree. Then I managed to also sweep the first floor and do a decent cleanup job.

But I showed her what I'd worked on the night before.

This is not an exact replica of what I tacked down onto the foam board (the bottom wave is different) ...

The first hobby shop I went to (Sattler's Trains in Westmont, NJ; sorry for the Facebook link, they don't have a website) the proprietor was relatively nice. However, his wife treated me like a hooligan and kept hovering around me. I guess they're not used to patrons under 50. I picked up a couple magazines but nothing else.

The second hobby shop (AAA Hobbies, Lawnside) was the one with the motorized display case mentioned from Christmas 2015. I couldn't get any help here, as ...

I finally went over to Mom's two weeks ago and decided to look for the missing boxes myself.

Right where I remember them being were three boxes. One larger file box and two smaller boxes.

Spoiler for boxes:

I brought them home and cracked them open.

Here's what I found:
Over a dozen magazines from 90, 91, and 92, as well as the Walthers catalogs for N&Z Scale from 1985!! and 1990.

Spoiler for mags:

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Some of my earliest memories include sitting on my dad's lap while he controled the HO-scale model railroad layout in the living room. At Christmas time, the family forwent a larger tree in favor of a smaller one that would sit in a specially-prepared circle on the layout.

Related aside: I received a gift one year of the Transformers G1 toy "Astrotrain" and was shocked mightily to find its train mode fit perfectly on HO-scale track! It was far too heavy to be moved by any ...