Sunday, November 20th, 2011
There's lots to see, do and explore today in the South Sound. Get out and enjoy.
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Listen to the blues, explore model trains, get classical and more
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Monday, October 24th, 2011
The haunting call of a train's whistle rang out many times Sunday inside the Sedgwick County Extension Center.
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Hundreds get on board for model trains
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Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
Owners of the newly named Trains and Tiaras hope toys, trains and a new location will yield strong holiday sales.
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More than model trains moves the patrons of East Memphis toy store
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Saturday, October 15th, 2011
THEY normally spend their days working alongside very big locos – but now staff at the National Railway Museum in York have been trying out some very small pedal trains.
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Toy and model train event and railway poster exhibition at National Railway Museum
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Sunday, September 25th, 2011
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
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Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
A Clovis couple have transformed their backyard garden into an oasis for model trains. Cal and Juanita Terrasas of Clovis have created a garden railway scene that depicts a train chugging its way through the Tehachapi mountains in their backyard on Birch Avenue.
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Saturday, September 10th, 2011
Memories ride the rails of the HO gauge model train layout in a room of Jerry McRoberts' Charleston home that was specially built for what has been a hobby of a lifetime.
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Hobby of a lifetime: Charleston resident’s love of trains leads to extensive model collection
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Saturday, September 10th, 2011
The Dawleys of Wichita are a fortunate family. Mom and Dad have lived in the same house at 2015 E. Blake since 1968, and their son moved into the house next door several years ago, followed by their daughter and her husband in the house next to his a couple of years ago.
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Garden railway runs through family's joined yards
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Sunday, August 28th, 2011
The Great Western Railroad is a busy line that runs from west of Chicago to Abilene, all in the space of Alan Bridgestock's "upper room."
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
COUNCIL BLUFFS — "We were just one of those families that, if we went on vacation, we would go to museums. My grandfather is a huge model train enthusiast, so a love of trains was not foreign to my family."
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Railroad museum job was just the ticket
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