For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
Given Altoona's railroad heritage, it's no surprise that model trains are a Christmastime tradition for many in the area. "Everyone remembers going to Gable's Department Store in downtown Altoona," said Harley Burket, who has a year-round model train spread in his basement. "They'd put a train display in the window in their store on 11th Avenue with all the new Lionel cars.
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Model Train Exhibit Offers Big Dream On A Small Scale (New London Day)
Model Train Festival at the Washington State History Museum, Dec. 26, 2008-Jan. 3. 2009, Zoolights and Point Defiance Zoo through Jan. 4 and First Night Tacoma Dec. 31, 2008.
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Herbert Sandler and his wife, Marion, were long viewed as the mortgage industry's model citizens, but have been swept into the maelstrom surrounding who is to blame for the housing bust.
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Wrapped in the glow of twinkling lights, model trains and trolleys zip along over bridges and on winding tracks past scaled replicas of New York landmarks made by award-winning designer Paul Busse at the Botanical Gardens Holiday Train Show. Orange slices, cinnamon sticks, poppy pods, pine cones and other plant parts are used to create the more than 140 architectural reproductions. Exhibit is ...
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Traditions keep families on track (The Journal News)
"It's toenails in comparison this year. Last year we had a decorations war with Senator [Jeff] Sessions' office across the hall, complete with model trains and people dressed as elves and Santa." A spokesman for Sen. Jim DeMint on the scaled back holiday trimmings in the Republican's office. That said, DeMint was cited as one of the few Congressmen bragging on his decorations in these lean ...
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Herb Weiss has collected and built model trains for the past 47 years. He has designed an entire room for the models to operate in at his home in Spartanburg. Weiss has 43 locomotives and hundreds of freight cars.
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Train hobby, marriage both stay on track for 47 years (Spartanburg Herald-Journal)
Last year, two MIT students won a prestigious international design award for a novel idea: Turn footsteps into electrical energy. The proposal imagined that an Italian train station would install a special floor. As passengers raced to catch their trains, the energy in their stomps would feed through an electrical ...
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Tokyo tests power-generating floor (The Christian Science Monitor)
Herb Weiss has collected and built model trains for the past 47 years. He has designed an entire room for the models to operate in at his home in Spartanburg. Weiss has 43 locomotives and hundreds of freight cars.
Continue here: Train hobby, marriage both stay on track (Spartanburg Herald-Journal)