Archive for November, 2009
Sunday, November 29th, 2009
More than 30 model train vendors packed the St. Bridget's School gym for a swap and sell meet on Saturday afternoon. This was the 20th year for the event, which is put on by Hobart model railroad enthusiast Ron Jackson. From Lionel train sets and old manuals to DVDs and t-shirts with model trains on them, the room had it all. Jackson said all proceeds go to the Hobart Fraternal Order of Police's ...
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The model for success: Mix trains and train fans (Post-Tribune)
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Saturday, November 28th, 2009
The Greater Abington Township Society of Model Engineers, or GATSME, has built what it calls the largest club layout in Southeastern Pennsylvania: It's HO-scale railroad is nearly the size of a tennis court. With a pre-Christmas open house scheduled for next weekend, visitors may be getting their last look at this miniature world frozen in 1953.
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Model railroad club's final departure? (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
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Saturday, November 28th, 2009
The GardenFest of Lights at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden has become a garden of delights for the family of Rob and Elizabeth Hazelton. The adults appreciate the beauty of a half-million holiday lights that celebrate “wings of wonder” this year. Nine-year-old Ben and 5-year-old Erich get excited about watching the model trains, toasting marshmallows over the firepit to make s’mores and running ...
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Saturday, November 28th, 2009
Amid tomten, ljustrums and julboks, Lionel sticks out in Bishop Hill’s Colony Steeple building. That’s Lionel as in model train. Tomte is the mythological protective elf; ljustrum is the traditional Swedish candelabra; and julbok is the Swedish yule goat, often represented as a straw figure.
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Model recalls Bishop Hill’s railroad past (The Galesburg Register-Mail)
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Saturday, November 28th, 2009
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich., Nov. 28 (UPI) -- A massive Michigan model train exhibit, expected to draw thousands of fans, has opened to the public for the fifth season, its owner says.
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Mich. man's model train project wows (UPI)
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Saturday, November 28th, 2009
One could say Paul Gribbell works on the railroad. All day long. And what started out as a way to indulge Gribbell's passion for model trains has morphed into an attraction that draws thousands of visitors annually to a former grocery store in Commerce Township.
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WHISTLE-STOP IN COMMERCE TOWNSHIP: Man's model trains attract thousands of visitors (Detroit Free Press)
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
HUNTINGTON -- More than a dozen model trains are set up this weekend at the Veterans Memorial Field House in Huntington for the 52nd annual Appalachian Model Railroad Society Show.
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Model Railroad Society Show for young and young at heart (The Huntington Herald-Dispatch)
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
The Augusta County Railroad Club is inviting the public to see its holiday model train exhibit.
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Model Train Exhibit Open For Holidays (NBC 29 Charlottesville)
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
At holiday time, trains whiz through Richard Kloewer’s yard, past the lighted evergreen trees, dolls, teddy bears, even a miniature Harley Davidson display. “I don’t want to disappoint anybody,” said Kloewer of Englewood, Colo. Kloewer is one...
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Friday, November 27th, 2009
The Delaware SeaSide Railroad Club will display operating O and S gauge layouts and other interesting items regarding toy trains and the model railroading hobby.
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Railroad club sets holiday displays (Cape Gazette)
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