Friday, February 3rd, 2012
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
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Friday, December 16th, 2011
Stephenson's is wooing holiday shoppers Friday with a sale at its Southampton gallery of toys - at highly affordable prices - featuring that most appealing of decorations for the Christmas tree, toy trains to run under it.
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Auctions: Trains and dolls for the yuletide
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
The Severna Park Model RR Club, now 47, to open its doors to lovers of HO model trains His father always set up an elaborate network of Lionel model trains late on Dec. 24, so when Frank Winner and his little brother, Jim, got up Christmas mornings, they'd find the living room of the small family home filled with moving cars, blowing whistles and flashing lights.
Continue here: Mini model train display in Arundel chugs through the ages
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
The Severna Park Model RR Club, now 47, to open its doors to lovers of HO model trains Frank Winner, vice-president of the Severna Park Model Railroad Club, watches a train travel across a railroad bridge. This weekend, as area firehouses, malls and museums are unveiling their traditional holiday train setups, Winner's club will be doing something it has done twice a year for more than 40 years ...
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
A 56-year-old Salisbury man is accused of stealing model trains from his step father and selling them at a pawn shop.
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
A 56-year-old Salisbury man is accused of stealing model trains from his step father and selling them at a pawn shop.
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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Can you hear that whistle blowing? It’s comin’ round the bend at the Museum of Aviation at Robins Air Force Base.
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Trains invade the planes at Museum of Aviation
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Chiyo represents the increasing number of women devoted to making plastic model dioramas, a pastime that has long been considered exclusive to men.
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Plastic fantastic: Women take to model kits with gusto
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Monday, September 13th, 2010
Businessman who co-founded Filterite Corp. Robert Walter Miller Jr., a retired businessman and co-founder of Filterite Corp. who was an avid model railroader, died Saturday of liver cancer at the Colonnade in the city's Tuscany- Canterbury neighborhood.
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Robert W. Miller Jr. dies at age 84
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
New York City calls on Buddy yet again. May 8th was National Train Day, and folks from Amtrak requested a cake from Buddy to be presented at New York Citys Penn station.
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'Cake Boss' Buddy Valastro presents train cake at Penn Station
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