Toys for big boys: Model trains more than a hobby
Monday, March 29th, 2010DECATUR -- Bob Schafer can spend hours alone in his attic playing with his train sets.
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Toys for big boys: Model trains more than a hobby (Montgomery Advertiser)
Monday, March 29th, 2010DECATUR -- Bob Schafer can spend hours alone in his attic playing with his train sets.
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Toys for big boys: Model trains more than a hobby (Montgomery Advertiser)
TSA left in holding pattern? (USA Today)
Sunday, March 28th, 2010Transportation Security Administration nominee Maj. Gen. Robert Harding told senators last week that he hoped to quickly transform aviation security by having screeners interact more with airline passengers and moving "closer to an Israeli model."
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TSA left in holding pattern? (USA Today)
Popular model train display to become permanent part of museum at Union Station
Sunday, March 28th, 2010The model train display that draws thousands of people to Union Station between Thanksgiving and January will soon become a permanent part of the KC Rail Experience museum. People have been asking for so many years how they can see the trains year-round, said Lori Glazer, Union Stations director of sales and customer service. We decided to make it happen.
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Popular model train display to become permanent part of museum at Union Station (The Kansas City Star)
Sunday, March 28th, 2010The model train display that draws thousands of people to Union Station between Thanksgiving and January will soon become a permanent part of the KC Rail Experience museum. “People have been asking for so many years how they can see the trains year-round,” said Lori Glazer, Union Station’s director of sales and customer service. “We decided to make it happen.”
Trucks roll extra miles, extra year (Chicago Tribune)
Sunday, March 28th, 2010Industry still struggling amid high fuel costs, low shipping rates, weak freight traffic — It's not the prettiest truck in the lot, but its time has come to shine.
VIDEO: Model train show rolls into Mt. Pleasant (The Morning Sun)
Sunday, March 28th, 2010Bob Hoffman got his first model train set, a Christmas present, when he was 2 years old.
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VIDEO: Model train show rolls into Mt. Pleasant (The Morning Sun)
Choo-Choo! Model Train Enthusiasts Attend Great Train Expo (WFMY News 2 Greensboro)
Sunday, March 28th, 2010The Great Train Expo rolled into Winston-Salem's Dixie Classic Fairgrounds Saturday through Sunday.
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Buffett bets rails on track to thrive in future (The Indianapolis Star)
Sunday, March 28th, 2010In Matt Rose's 10 years at the helm of BNSF Railway, he'd heard plenty of investors talk about quarterly performance. A few would even talk about the railroad's annual performance.
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Buffett bets rails on track to thrive in future (The Indianapolis Star)
Retired banker Thomas Warren Ogden dies (Houston Chronicle)
Saturday, March 27th, 2010The skills Thomas Warren Ogden Jr. learned as a youth tasked with keeping the trains running on time at a Louisiana rail yard served him well later in life as a banker and community volunteer, his friends and family said this week.
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Retired banker Thomas Warren Ogden dies (Houston Chronicle)