This cache is an APL 40' (how can you miss that?!) High Cube Steel Container that resembles this:
![[APL container large image]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/2e569479-a19e-47f9-8640-f7ebb46cd9c7.jpg)
Cache only contains log book and pencil. Only room for skinny items!
Across the street is the original Allied Model Train store (now a Sammy's Camera store) in a building that resembles Los Angeles Union Station that looks like this:
![[Allied Model Trains Building image]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/cf76ada0-fb2c-48d5-967b-e9fd13139399.jpg)
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News: Allied Model Trains moved across the street to
4371 Sepulveda Blvd and re-opened on July 5, 2007.
UPDATE: Allied Model Trains CLOSED on July 7, 2015
Note: New owner's are Lifestyle Outdoor - Hot Tubs
Allied Model Trains, one of the Los Angeles area's oldest and largest model railroad hobby shops, has just closed, effective today July 7, 2015.
Allied originally opened in 1946 in the West Los Angeles area, with a large, highly-stocked store on Pico Boulevard as their longest storefront. In 1989 they moved to nearby Culver City, to a custom-designed building fashioned after L.A.'s Union Station. In 2007, the store's owner Allen Drucker sold the store and leased the Union Station-style building to local photography retailer Samy's Camera. Allied was purchased by the owner of former competitor The Original Whistle Stop in Pasadena and moved to a smaller storefront just across the street from the Union Station-style store in Culver City where they have been since.
The store's proximity to the entertainment industry made it a popular store for model railroading celebrities like Frank Sinatra, Rod Stewart and Gary Coleman.
Dispatched from Allied Model Trains, Culver City, California July 7, 2015
It’s with great sadness we send this message to our friends, customers and vendors.
As of today July 07, 2015, we are closed. Due to circumstances beyond our control, the stockholders had to close and declare insolvency.
We had sixty-nine wonderful years and we are sorry the journey has to end.
All of us at Allied Model Trains, Nick, Fred, George, Karie, Sam, and Dave thank you for all the years of support.
Allied Model Trains
You'll have to park on Sepulveda Blvd or Barman Ave. Check out Street View in Google Maps for a view of the parking and the new store.
The coordinates should lead you behind the store in the alley. Unfortunately my GPSr picks up bounced signals here and so I had to estimate the actual coordinates from several readings. The cache is NOT on the store building.
Remember this USED to be a Model RAIL-road store.
I think this cache is rather attractive. Note: HO Scale = 1/87th.
