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LOXX miniature train landscape: a huge model railway in Berlin

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:40:12 +0000

5,800 metres of track, 200,000 lights, 90,000 figures, and 150 trains.

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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.

Auctions: Trains and dolls for the yuletide

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:36:57 +0000

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.

Mini model train display in Arundel chugs through the ages

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:44:32 +0000

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.

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Mini model train display chugs along

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:32:30 +0000

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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Salisbury man accused of stealing model trains from stepfather

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:32:11 +0000

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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Salisbury man accused of stealing model trains from stepfather

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:32:11 +0000

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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Trains invade the planes at Museum of Aviation

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:53:26 +0000

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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Plastic fantastic: Women take to model kits with gusto

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:38:20 +0000

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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Robert W. Miller Jr. dies at age 84

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:38:15 +0000

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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