Many enjoy model train show in Austintown
Sunday, November 6th, 2011By ELISE McKEOWN SKOLNICK news@vindy.com AUSTINTOWN Visitors watched as model trains chugged
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Railroad flea market attracts hundreds
Monday, March 14th, 2011By BOB JACKSON news@vindy.com NILES A sagging economy and soaring gasoline prices couldn’t
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Amtrak to purchase 130 new railcars
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Amtrak is implementing the first step in a long-term, comprehensive fleet renewal plan with the purchase of 130 new single-level railcars to support its long-distance train services.
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Alstom unveils new high-speed train model
Thursday, June 10th, 2010Alstom unveiled a new model of its Very High Speed train at the international railway exhibition EXPO Ferroviaria in Turin, Italy. The new platform is added to an already extensive portfolio, ranging from the tilting High Speed trains Pendolino, to the Very High Speed trains Duplex and AGV.
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Miners make A$4.9b bid for rail network
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010PERTH: Australian coal miners made a joint A$4.85 billion (A$1 = RM2.76) cash bid for a rail-track network in the country's biggest coal state, aiming to prevent it being sold onto the stock market in a wider privatisation. The group of 13 firms headed by BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Xstrata said its bid for the network was conditional on the Queensland state government dropping its plan to sell ...
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NEW LOCAL: Falconi retiring from Farrell council (New Castle News)
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009With a youthful gleam in his eyes, Lou Falconi shows off his Christmas trains on a snowy Monday afternoon. The display, dotted with several towns much like the Shenango Valley, takes up much of the living room.
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Passengers come first (The Herald)
Sunday, July 26th, 2009The Commons Transport Committee's verdict on the UK's rail franchise system will not be a surprise to anyone who has watched recent developments in the running of our trains.
YTL: KL-S’pore bullet train project economically viable (Business Times (Malaysia))
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009DIVERSIFIED group YTL Corp Bhd ( 4677 ) said it still believes the high-speed bullet train linking Kuala Lumpur to neighbouring Singapore is an economically viable project and hopes the government will reconsider its implementation.
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20 years later, train lovers still gather for model train show (Standard-Examiner)
Sunday, March 8th, 2009OGDEN -- Model trains of all sizes filled Union Station on Saturday and for the first time, crowds could ride one very big train from Salt Lake City directly to the smaller trains at the Hostlers Model Railroad Festival.
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Selangor’s RM50b transport plan (Business Times (Malaysia))
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009MALAYSIA'S richest state, which surrounds the capital, Kuala Lumpur, plans to solve the area’s chronic congestion with a public-transport blueprint including boats and trains that may cost RM50 billion (US$14 billion).
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