Friday, January 13th, 2012
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 ...
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Twain Harte man recreates rail history
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Thursday, January 5th, 2012
License plates from Michigan, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Virginia showed up last week at the Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum in Richland. read more »
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Model railroad museum in Richland draws up to 10,000 guests annually
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
KFDX photojournalist, Jake Van Donge, gives a look at Wichita Falls' miniature version of The Polar Express.
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Model Trains at Museum of Art at MSU
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Monday, December 5th, 2011
Diana Cadan and her son, Mateo, of Fairfield, foreground, enjoy the Holiday Express Train Show at the Fairfield Museum and History Center when it was unveiled for the season Friday.
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Model trains are holiday treat at Fairfield Museum
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Monday, December 5th, 2011
By Jessica Debbas SPRINGFIELD, Ore. -- Christmas time brings out the toys and so did one model train club in Springfield this weekend. About 80-feet of miniature trains made their way through hand-made villages set up at the Gateway Mall. "N" scale is one of the main scales of model railroading, but it's much smaller than a lot of versions many people grew up with. Model train engineers say it's ...
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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.
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Monday, November 28th, 2011
The club assembled a Christmas model for the event.
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Saturday, November 26th, 2011
When Jim Herbein was growing up in Fleetwood, he'd catch a ride on a Reading Co. steam locomotive delivering freight to his grandfather's depot, A.R. Hoffman Lumber & Coal.
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Monday, November 21st, 2011
The new Ford City Renaissance Community Partnership is sponsoring a train display for the holidays in downtown Ford City, featuring the work of veteran model trainman Mike Luke, which will be open through Dec. 30.
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Kittanning train buff still on track
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Monday, November 7th, 2011
PARKERSBURG - The Mid-Ohio Valley Model Railroad Club expected as many as 400 children and adults for its 16th annual Model Train Show and Sale in the student activities center Saturday at West Virginia University at Parkersburg. "It's a sort of flea market for all different scales of model trains," said co-organizer Mark Suek with the club. The event included 76 vendor tables with model ...
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Model train show and sale attracts hundreds
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