For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
Employees of the Vernon County Ambulance District take a newly-acquired rescue boat and motor out for a training session on Walton Lake in Nevada on Saturday. The 2011 model inflatable boat is made by Mercury and is 14.1 feet long and has a six foot beam.
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VCAD trains with new boat
So if a car's experience is so fundamentally different than riding transit, what parallel experience can we plumb for joyous attributes? I would propose we look for a model to long-distance trains and their sense of possibility and romance, not the raw sex of cars.
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Carol Pierson Holding: A Better Idea for Branding Public Transit
(from left) Keegan Gresham, 4, of Bloomington and Gus Ulrich, 3, of Brimfield gaze in wonder at model monorail Sunday during the Peoria Train Fair at Illinois Central College in Peoria.
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Enthusiasts young and old share a devotion to scale-model rails
Trains to be displayed at the mall Dec. 24The San Juan Large Scale Model Railroad Club will display G Scale model trains from Monday to Dec. 24 at the Durango Mall.
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Local Briefs
( Stanford University Medical Center ) In a paper to be published Nov. 9 in Science Translational Medicine, computer scientists at the Stanford School of Engineering and pathologists at the Stanford School of Medicine report their collaboration to train computers to analyze breast cancer microscopic images. The computer analysis were more accurate than those conducted by humans.
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FLOWERY BRANCH - Flowery Branch City Council Thursday night had police cars, a model train, qualifying for a special election, and street lights to deal with during their two hour session and City Hall.
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In conjunction with the Amtrak 40th Anniversary Exhibit Train stop in Galesburg, there was a Train and Memorabilia Show in the former Carriage House furniture store Saturday. Collectors from across the state came to Galesburg to show off, and in most cases to sell, their assorted memorabilia.
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Train fans share variety of memorabilia at Galesburg show
The 20,500-square-foot building houses the college’s engineering, physics, mathematics, electronics and automated manufacturing programs.
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Winn Erdman of Placitas, N.M., celebrates his 73rd birthday by displaying his steam-driven model trains at the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad & Museum during the 13th annual Durango Railfest.
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Runnin' on steam
Join Dayton History and the Carillon Park Rail and Steam Society to the 6th Annual Miami Valley Rail Festival Saturday and Sunday, June 25, 26.
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All Aboard Rail Fest June 25, 26