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Here come the trains

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:55:35 +0000

For the first time in about half a century, trains will come chugging down the iron rails in west Pasco County.

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Model Train Museum Now Open in Former Hobby Shop

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:48:07 +0000

Missourian Photo. A museum-quality model train layout is currently under construction at Iron Horse Trains, 11 W. Main St. in Downtown Washington. The finished layout will be complete with six levels of track for HO scale trains.

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Model train showcase to launch this weekend

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:08:53 +0000

For the first time in about half a century, trains will come chugging down the iron rails in West Pasco. These trains, however, will clickety-clack down the tracks of elaborate model railroad displays the Sundance Central group has created at the new Suncoast Center for Fine Scale Modeling.

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Corruption, broken trains, floods in the city: This is Singapore?

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:19:35 +0000

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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VW adds a driver's car to the Jetta model range

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:14:28 +0000

(Credit: Wayne Cunningham/CNET) With the 2011 Jetta update, Volkswagen made some compromises to get the price low, but the GLI restores handling and power to this otherwise humble model. Significant additions to the Jetta GLI are a multilink rear suspension and rear disc brakes. The most important part of the package is one of the best power trains available today, Volkswagen's TFSI 2-liter ...

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Hobbies: Sharing a passion

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

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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World of model trains and tiny treasures comes to Pasco

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:27:49 +0000

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 ...

Auctions: Philadelphia-area auctions offer trains and metal memorabilia

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:32:37 +0000

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.

Trains and toilet training put the spring in Stewart's step

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:25:41 +0000

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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Waynesville's Fun Things Etc. hosts free model train exhibit

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:14:14 +0000

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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