Runnin’ on steam

Sunday, August 21st, 2011

Winn Erdman of Placitas, N.M., celebrates his 73rd birthday by displaying his steam-driven model trains at the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad & Museum during the 13th annual Durango Railfest.

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Runnin' on steam

Medina club offers a chance to ride the rails

Thursday, August 11th, 2011

Adults and children alike waited in line Aug. 6 for a chance to ride on 1/8 scale model trains at the Northeastern Ohio Live Steamers rail trail in the Medina County Park District just off Lester Road.

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Model trains re-create the Lehigh Valley

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

Musikfest is about music, but the Lehigh & Keystone Valley Model Railroad Museum puts out the welcome mat to Bethlehem visitors during its annual Musikfest open house 2-5 p.m. Aug. 6-7 and 13-14 at 705 Linden St.

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Railroad museum job was just the ticket

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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Train Day to revisit Naples’ rail history

Saturday, May 7th, 2011

All aboard! National Train Day rolls into Naples on Saturday, May 7, at the Naples Depot Cultural Center. Organizers want to raise the awareness of the importance of trains to the history of Southwest Florida — also, they add, it’s a chance to play with really neat model trains on exhibit there.

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Model Train Show

Friday, April 29th, 2011

Cape Cod Model Railroad Club is hosting a Model Train Show 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, May 1 at Cape Cod Community College.

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Rail enthusiasts steam into city

Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

IT CAN take model train enthusiast Steve Malone hundreds of hours to construct his intricately detailed miniature trains.

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Train show brings hundreds of model railroad enthusiasts to Windham

Sunday, April 17th, 2011

Model railroad enthusiasts and families from all over eastern Connecticut admired tiny — and not-so-tiny — trains at Windham High School on Sunday.

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Model railways on show

Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

COLLECTIONS of model trains were put on display during an event in Nailsea.

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Trains in Halifax, but not for Halifax

Friday, March 25th, 2011

With some talk of commuter light-rail along the Bedford Hwy, some Haligonians have been wondering what these new locomotives are doing sitting on the tracks at the end of the rail cut on port lands. But dont get too excited. The five-unit choo choo that has been spotted at the south end terminal is en route to Rotterdam, Holland.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

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