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I work part time for a sign company and as luck would have it, I was sent to New York, Corfu to be exact. While taking lunch and looking through a Garden Railroad mag, it occured to me that Holley, New York was about thirty minutes away. So when the job was complete, I packed up the truck programmed the GPS and headed to Ridge Road Station.
Let me say that to me, first impressions say alot about things. Ridge Road is HUGE. It is nice, clean well kept and has one gigantic American flag flying out front.
I have ordered a lot of stuff from Ridge Road and always been treated well. They have even called me to tell me they charged me too much, which says alot. But the treatment I recieved at the store was amazing. It was late, the store was gonna close in less than an hour yet everyone was pleasent said hi and actually seemed like they meant it. The indoor layout, which is amazing in it's own right, was shut down. But as soon as they noticed I was looking at it they offered to turn it all back on.
To say they have everything is an understatement. The store is gigantic but it is well organized and very easy to navigate. Largescale dominates the store but they also have HO, N and I believe S as well as many other toys and a year round Christmas department. I pretty much wondered around in amazement. But again I cannot stress how nice they were. I struck up a conversation with one of the salesmen, and for the life of me I cannot remember his name, but he was again nice and very knowledgeable and was showing me pictures of his ride on railroad and sharing ideas about what he was going to do to his largescale layout. And believe it or not he was interested in what I was doing.
I know that the internet pricing is lower than the instore prices but even the instore prices were cheaper than my local brick and mortar. But just to see all the stuff in one place and to be able to see first hand the new releases was an experience. By the way the new K is a sweet loco along with all of b-mans new 1-20.3 offerings. Everything is laid out on the walls too compare.
At any rate it was a great experience and i wish i lived closer, but i will definatly have to take my family and make a pilgramage back to Holley New York.
If any of you get the chance to swing by its worth the trip.
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Let me say that to me, first impressions say alot about things. Ridge Road is HUGE. It is nice, clean well kept and has one gigantic American flag flying out front.
I have ordered a lot of stuff from Ridge Road and always been treated well. They have even called me to tell me they charged me too much, which says alot. But the treatment I recieved at the store was amazing. It was late, the store was gonna close in less than an hour yet everyone was pleasent said hi and actually seemed like they meant it. The indoor layout, which is amazing in it's own right, was shut down. But as soon as they noticed I was looking at it they offered to turn it all back on.
To say they have everything is an understatement. The store is gigantic but it is well organized and very easy to navigate. Largescale dominates the store but they also have HO, N and I believe S as well as many other toys and a year round Christmas department. I pretty much wondered around in amazement. But again I cannot stress how nice they were. I struck up a conversation with one of the salesmen, and for the life of me I cannot remember his name, but he was again nice and very knowledgeable and was showing me pictures of his ride on railroad and sharing ideas about what he was going to do to his largescale layout. And believe it or not he was interested in what I was doing.
I know that the internet pricing is lower than the instore prices but even the instore prices were cheaper than my local brick and mortar. But just to see all the stuff in one place and to be able to see first hand the new releases was an experience. By the way the new K is a sweet loco along with all of b-mans new 1-20.3 offerings. Everything is laid out on the walls too compare.
At any rate it was a great experience and i wish i lived closer, but i will definatly have to take my family and make a pilgramage back to Holley New York.
If any of you get the chance to swing by its worth the trip.
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