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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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Mall’s model trains captivate kids of all ages

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:15:44 +0000

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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Model train show draws thousands to Thanksgiving Point

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 02:00:42 +0000

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

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Around Town: Movin' down the track

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:01:51 +0000

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

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:02:58 +0000

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

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:16:31 +0000

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 ...

Popular display of model trains reaches end of the line

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:54:06 +0000

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 ...

Nazareth Area Society of Model Engineers enjoy ‘workin’ on the railroad’

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:35:54 +0000

The volunteer group's annual open house series runs until late January in Stockertown.

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Model Train Festival brings fun, thousands of people to Tacoma

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:33:21 +0000

It might be 200-odd years since George Stephenson invented the locomotive, but 10,000 people flocking to the Washington State History Museum each December prove even tablet computers and video games can’t diminish the fun of playing with model trains.

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