For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
BLUEFIELD — Children stand tiptoe and peek into miniature worlds while adults around them talk in terms of track gauges, wheel sensors and other pieces of the model train world at the 21st Annual Rail Fest.
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Tiny trains carry tons of fun at Rail Fest (Bluefield Daily Telegraph)
Manchester City's Stephen Ireland has ruled out a return to the international fold as the Republic of Ireland prepare to face Cyprus this Saturday in Nicosia.
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Manchester City Midfielder Stephen Ireland Rules Out International Return (Goal.com)
Global warming may be among the biggest threats to humanity, but it may also be a huge opportunity. The new economy will mean more green, as in saving energy and making money. So there's a program that trains inner-city workers to specialize in environmental construction.
Continue here: The Green Economy: Saving Energy And Making Money (WCCO Minneapolis - St. Paul)
An American president who has "the blood of Africa within me" praised and scolded the continent of his ancestors Saturday, asserting forces of tyranny and corruption must yield if Africa is to achieve its promise. "Yes you can," President Obama declared, brushing off his campaign slogan and adapting it for his foreign audience at the parliament in Ghana. Obama called upon African societies to ...
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Members of the state National Guard's 2nd Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team (CST) traveled to the State Preparedness Training Center in Oriskany Tuesday for a scenario-based training session.
Continue here: Elite National Guard team trains at Oriskany site (The Observer-Dispatch)
Ten operating model train displays will be featured in Sunday's 14th Haverhill Train Show, including models of trolleys that operated in the Merrimack Valley in the early 1900s. The show has taken place in the city for the past 28 years under the direction of John Muise.
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Train show benefits Haverhill High band (The Haverhill Gazette)
Imagine a residential home that uses 65 percent less energy during peak hours than a traditional home and that allows residents to monitor all of their energy use at the touch of a button.
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Green homes use less energy, have more high-tech features (Las Vegas Sun)
Though it may not be what he once worked on at the World’s Fair in New York in 1940, Bob Green said he’s impressed with the Maryland/West Virginia Model Railroad Association’s model railroad display.
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Santa will be taking the train from the North Pole to Baltimore and arriving at the B and O Railroad Museum’s famed 1884 Baldwin Roundhouse on Friday at 10:30 a.m. to kick off this year’s Holiday Festival of Trains and will greet visitors throughout the day.
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Santa taking part in Holiday Festival of Trains this weekend (Cumberland Times-News)