Sunday, February 5th, 2012
(Credit: Wayne Cunningham/CNET) With the 2011 Jetta update, Volkswagen made some compromises to get the price low, but the GLI restores handling and power to this otherwise humble model. Significant additions to the Jetta GLI are a multilink rear suspension and rear disc brakes. The most important part of the package is one of the best power trains available today, Volkswagen's TFSI 2-liter ...
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
A former Playboy pin-up is so keen for her 16-year-old daughter to follow in her footsteps she is training her to become a topless model.
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Sunday, January 15th, 2012
Spyro Avdis, 3, got a kick out of a passing model train at the Great Train Expo at Cal Expo on Satur
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Friday, January 13th, 2012
A favorite train display with a lot of history will soon close its doors. After 26 years, The Old Mauch Chunk Model Train Display in Jim Thorpe, Carbon Co., will be packed up on Sunday. "We've been open year-round for 26-and-a-half years. We opened August 22, 1985," said Michael Heery, whose family owns the display. Before that, Heery said, it took one family nearly 50 years to collect the ...
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Friday, January 13th, 2012
When you drive up to Stuart Taylor’s house and see a light shining in the basement window, you can bet the imagination is at work.
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
It's the end of an era in Longview, a sad time for anyone who loves model trains.
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Longview landmark closing for business
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
The Gadsden-Pacific Division Toy Train Operating Museum has been dedicated to sharing model trains with the public for more than 20 years.
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Train lovers share their passion
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Monday, November 21st, 2011
Members of the new Ford City Renaissance Community Partnership will be hosting the display of veteran model trainman Mike Luke for the holidays.
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Veteran trainman Mike Luke sets up display to benefit community partnership
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Saturday, November 19th, 2011
YORBA LINDA - The model trains are again chugging on the tracks at the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum.The Holiday Festival of Trains has become somewhat of an annual tradition at the library, from model trains representing various periods in history to the fantasy, such as a Thomas...
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Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Special-effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman will take a stab at establishing the validity of adages, news stories and rumors in this live version of their TV show " Mythbusters ."
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Hot Ticket: Behind the Myths, model trains, handmade items
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