Archive for January, 2012

Model train show draws thousands to Thanksgiving Point

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

LEHI — A small city moved into Thanksgiving Point on Friday — literally.

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Working on the railroad

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Model Railroad Club of Buffalo plans first open house in three years

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Working on the railroad

Working on the railroad

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Model Railroad Club of Buffalo plans first open house in three years

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Ex Playboy model trains teen daughter to become topless model

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

London, Jan 18 : A former Playboy pin-up model is so keen to make her daughter follow in her footsteps that she is training her to become a topless model.

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Ex-Playboy mum trains 16-year-old daughter to be topless model

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

A former Playboy pin-up is so keen for her 16-year-old daughter to follow in her footsteps she is training her to become a topless model.

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Around Town: Movin' down the track

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

Wanda McLain and her great-grandson Casey Eppley of Walkersville watch model trains chug along the tracks during the Frederick County Society of Model Engineers’ open house Sunday afternoon in Frederick

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Model trains delight at Cal Expo show

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

Spyro Avdis, 3, got a kick out of a passing model train at the Great Train Expo at Cal Expo on Satur

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Twain Harte man recreates rail history

Friday, January 13th, 2012

John Zach had model trains as a kid, but he didn’t really start getting into the hobby until one Christmas in the mid 1970s. "I said, ‘Oh, I still have trains. Let’s put them under the Christmas tree,’ ” Zach, 62, a tax preparer, said on Thursday. “It’s been downhill ever since.” Downhill and uphill, at least for the trains. Zach has been building a miniature replica of the Sierra Railroad with ...

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Popular display of model trains reaches end of the line

Friday, January 13th, 2012

A favorite train display with a lot of history will soon close its doors.  After 26 years, The Old Mauch Chunk Model Train Display in Jim Thorpe, Carbon Co., will be packed up on Sunday. "We've been open year-round for 26-and-a-half years. We opened August 22, 1985," said Michael Heery, whose family owns the display. Before that, Heery said, it took one family nearly 50 years to collect the ...

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Model railroad enthusiasts are set for Paris show this weekend

Friday, January 13th, 2012

When you drive up to Stuart Taylor’s house and see a light shining in the basement window, you can bet the imagination is at work.

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