For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
Nick Taylor, 8, and his grandfather Lynn Merholz, of North Royalton, watch model trains at the Medina Model Railroad and Toy Show on Sunday afternoon. (GAZETTE PHOTO BY MICHELLE SPREHE)
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Love of trains knows no age
THE striking good looks of this pair have stopped bosses at a top model agency in their tracks.
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North East News: MODEL MISSION
There’s something calming about watching model trains snake along tracks through ornate villages built by area train enthusiasts. The 11th annual Waynesboro Lions Club train show is headed to the Mont Alto Volunteer Fire Department from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6. Two working model train layouts will fill the fire hall, along with 80 vendors selling train sets, model trains and automobiles ...
MEDINA — Not all 4-H’ers are involved with farm animals and agriculture at the Medina County Fair. Some interests travel along the rails toward model trains. Thirty-two boys and girls make up this year’s Medina County 4-H Model Train Club, which has a 48-by-12-foot model on display in Building 12 at the Medina County Fair. Thirteen
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4-H’ers interests include model trains
MEDINA — County 4-H participants are not all involved with farm animals and agriculture; some take interest in the railway or model trains. Thirty-two boys and girls makeup this year’s Medina County 4-H Model Train Club, and there are 10 adult advisors to the youths, according to John Lanzer, a train club advisor. The 4-H train
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4-H youths build model train display at fair
Thousands of enthusiasts will converge for East Anglia’s biggest model railway exhibition this weekend.
Hornby has said that it will be able to make enough model railway sets to meet demand for the first time in five years, after it resolved a long-running problem with its main supplier in China.
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CROSSLAKE --- The gleaming red and gold train sits on a track without any expectation of movement.It's already reached its destination.For those involved in the countless hours of restoration behind its installation along County Highway 3 in Crosslake, the train is already doing what it was meant to do --- draw attention to a nearby building full of model trains, interactive displays and train ...
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All aboard for camaraderie
A new Civil War exhibit will soon go on display at the State museum in Columbia, and it's being put together by a man with plenty of experience.
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State Museum's model-maker turns his eye to the Civil War
When most people think of a model train set, what they have in mind travels around the dining room table, or perhaps through a setup in the basement. For Newton resident Walt Smith and a handful of others throughout central Iowa, the trains are on a grander tableau, in their backyards.
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Garden trains make a great hobby for some