For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
Senior officials arrested in a corruption investigation. Subway commuters trapped underground without light or proper ventilation. Flooded roads in the financial district. It may sound like the Philippines or perhaps Indonesia, but this is Singapore.
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Corruption, broken trains, floods in the city: This is Singapore?
If sharing a hobby is akin to sharing love, then participants in a National Hobby Day celebration at Frayser-Raleigh Senior Center on Jan. 26 generously displayed their personal natures.
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By Robert Napper, Times Correspondent Saturday, February 4, 2012 These poker players are among the many precise details at the new Suncoast Center for Fine Scale Modeling, a recently renovated 7,800-square-foot facility in Odessa. ODESSA — It is a behemoth in the modular train business. When it's pieced together, the Sundance Central Modular Railroad village spans 45 feet by 20 feet, with 235 ...
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World of model trains and tiny treasures comes to Pasco
Three sales next week will offer items appealing to the metallurgically minded: a gold presentation trophy; a collection of brass model railroad trains, and advertising signs made of tin. Off to the smelters.
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Auctions: Philadelphia-area auctions offer trains and metal memorabilia
Rod Stewart and his luxuriant blonde bouffant, which has been in vogue for more than half a century, set foot in a radio studio for the first time in 10 years this morning.
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Trains and toilet training put the spring in Stewart's step
WAYNESVILLE — The Smoky Mountain Model Railroaders will set up their collection of electric Lionel model trains Friday at Fun Things Etc., 196 N. Main St. The free display will be open through Feb. 12.
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Waynesville's Fun Things Etc. hosts free model train exhibit
Model railroad trains have rolled into the big E expo center.
As the foot-long model train engine chugged around the tracks Saturday, making its way through an idyllic miniature town and blowing a horn, Mo Clark tried to decide which of her boys was most mesmerized: 5-year-old Colin, 7-year-old Aidan — or 41-year-old Wayne, Clark’s husband. “There’s something about boys and …
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Conducting magic
Many people remember a childhood with an electric train set. Perhaps it was an HO-scale layout on a sheet of plywood in the basement or a brand-new Lionel set first discovered under the Christmas tree. While most of those train sets have been long-since put away, some Southern Illinoisans' fondness for model railroading has grown, both in levels of interest and in the size of their trains.
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It's a childhood dream come true this weekend at Valley River Center.
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