Archive for November, 2009
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Models of the Obama White House, the Obama home in Chicago and the house Michelle Obama grew up in are on display at holiday train shows at the Chicago Botanic Garden and the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington.
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Model Obama homes in garden holiday train shows (Baltimore Sun)
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Margaret Mailly began painting trains in the 1960s. Her railroad-themed art has been exhibited around the country, including in Cincinnati as part of Duke Energy's holiday model train display.
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Artist engineers long career (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
NEW YORK – Models of the Obama White House, the Obama home in Chicago and the house Michelle Obama grew up in are on display at holiday train shows at the Chicago Botanic Garden and the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington.
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Model Obama homes in garden holiday train shows (China Daily)
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Models Of Obama Homes In Chicago And White House In Holiday Train Shows At Botanical Gardens
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Image / tompagenet PAYG is not even the end of today's exciting transport news! Siemens , who are bidding to supply the trains on the Thameslink route between Bedford and Brighton, say they would implement the first 'intellligent trains' of their kind in Europe. The Desiro City model can count the number of passengers in each carriage to control the air con flow, and also sends crowding ...
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Get Bossed About By Your Train (Londonist)
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
EAST LANSING - The time A.J. Lehnert spent chopping wood for his grandpa paid off for the 9-year-old.
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Model train show thrills at MSU (Lansing State Journal)
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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
Get a taste of model railroading as a hobby at the Lake County Model Railroad Club's Fall Open House . ste of model railroading as a hobby at the Lake County Model Railroad Club's Fall Open House . Visitors can view the club's permanent operating model railroad - occupying more than 1,500 square feet.
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Get a taste of model railroading at Lake County open house (Daily Herald)
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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
Ken Riediger of Abilene can walk out his back door and see trains of all kinds making their daily runs — much like he did when he was a kid growing up in a small town in Minnesota and saw the trains go by from his backyard.He said someone in the caboose would throw candy to all the kids.“I have always been fascinated by trains,” he said. “I got my first train set when I was 12.”He spends lots of ...
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Railroad hobbyist shows off his model trains (Abilene Reporter-News)
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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
After working for a month as a volunteer setting up more than 250 feet of toy train tracks, placing tiny trees and arranging scenes of times gone by, John Lange got his reward: ear-to-ear grins.
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Toy trains roll into Behringer-Crawford (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
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