For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
Germans rarely strike. So when tens of thousands of teachers, day-care providers, and youth workers from Bremen to Munich took to the street this week, they did much more than disrupt the schedules of busy working parents.
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Why Germans are starting to strike – like the French (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
Art boosters figure visitors to Central Station's block of South Main would rather wax poetic about Memphis and trains than behold a vacant lot.
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Word pictures: Song lyrics about trains, Memphis chug down South Main (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
The business model underlying Government's science institutions, the Crown Research Institutes or CRIs, is again under scrutiny following the dismissal of Jim Salinger, one of NIWA's principal scientists and a leading spokesperson for weather and climate issues.
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Assn of Scientists concerned about free speech (Scoop.co.nz)
Jim Babcock’s hobby has become a year-round adventure he shares with some 25,000 others as part of the National Model Railroad Association (NMRA), the Holly Springs Sun reports.
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A Passion For Trains (MyNC.com)
The head of the Auckland Regional Council is panning a proposal that the private sector could invest in electrifying the city's rail network.
Continue here: PPP for Auck trains "no free lunch" (Newstalk ZB via Yahoo!Xtra News)
May 27 – Transport Minister Steven Joyce instructed his ministry to investigate the use of a public-private partnership to fund the electrification of Auckland’s rail-system.
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PPPs mooted by Joyce for Auckland trains (Scoop.co.nz)
Transport Minister Steven Joyce is looking at whether a public private partnership (PPP) could be used to fund the purchase of the new rolling stock required for the electrification of Auckland’s rail network.
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PROVIDENCE - Shipping containers, the corrugated steel boxes that are piled high on cargo ships then loaded directly onto tractor trailers, revolutionized the way goods are transported and helped make the modern, global economy possible.
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New building should work inside the box (The Providence Journal)
IT'S a garden decoration with a difference - a model steam train that emerges from underneath Vince Rowe's Milton home, travelling along a small but impressive section of track before disappearing again through a hole in the wall.
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Model railway takes shape in Vince's garden (Milton Ulladulla Times)
Local drivers Jerry Broyles and Jensen Ford waged another hard-fought battle this past Friday night in the Pro Late Model division at Volunteer Speedway.
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Broyles, Ford continue to wage battles (Johnson City Press)