George thank you for the run down of these shops.
I loved Polks. I went to the AHC store in the 1970s I think. I bought eight N scale cars. Four bogus Burlington insulated? 40' box cars and four Hamms Beer cars. I think they were Model Power. Heavy paint and detail. Atlas made? similar but much better cars just not in those road names.
Chuck Seemann? ? Aurora, Colorado