For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
Spring-summer 2010 haute couture displays shot out of the gates on Monday with a whinnying equestrian themed collection at Dior, while Armani gave stars the moon, with lustrous lunar looks made for the red carpet.
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Dior saddles up for equestrian couture show (AP via Yahoo! News)
I’m a rail fan. I love trains. I grew up 200 feet from the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Line, with passenger and freight trains rumbling by day and night. I ride the Camden-to-Trenton RiverLine just for fun — not that it goes anywhere I want to go.
Continue here: Best spot for train is along Route 55 (Gloucester County Times)
Toymaker Hornby says it saw a major increase in pre-Christmas orders, with Scalextric sales seeing strong demand.
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Hornby sees toy sales race ahead (BBC News)
Retired University of Massachusetts professor of sociology Suzanne Model has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study immigration in Taiwan.
SHARPSBURG, Md. - With his mother carefully looking over his shoulders, 5-year-old Nicholas Fream, of Hagerstown, stared wide-eyed and intently Sunday as the model trains at the historic Antietam Station darted past his small, smiling face.
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All aboard for train show (The Martinsburg Journal)
The Jiji Line (集集線), one of the nation’s heritage railway routes, will be closed in March because seven of its tunnels between Zhuoshui (濁水) Station and Checheng (車埕) are in need of immediate repairs, the Taiwan Railway Administration (TRA) said last week.
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TRA’s historic Jiji Line to close in March for repairs (Taipei Times)
By BART PFANKUCH Tony Jacklin has a new job at The Concession golf club, the East Manatee course he co-designed with Jack Nicklaus four years ago. His title: "global ambassador."
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CLUBHOUSE PURPOSE: NEW BLOOD (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
CROWN POINT | The Lionel Modular Train Club will display itsmodel trains at the Crown Point Civic Center, 101 S. East St. Thetrains will be displayed from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Feb. 20 and 10 a.m.to 4 p.m. Feb. 21.
More here: Model train group will put up display at C.P. Civic Center (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
Twenty years ago we published a magazine that looked ahead to London in 2010. Our team of experts foresaw futuristic monorails, machines to control the rain, and a city riven by class wars. Instead we have the London Eye, the Gherkin and a population in thrall to the iPod and the mobile phone.
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Britain in 2010 – as predicted in 1990 (Guardian Unlimited)
Whether it’s the snow, the mountains or the fact that our entire filmmaking tradition is a model for independent thinking, Canadians just seem to fit the quirky renaissance rebellion called the Sundance Film Festival.
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Canadians make presence felt at Sundance Film Festival (Canada.com)