For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
A new set of trains hit the tracks in Las Vegas Thursday, but it will be a couple of years before you can take a ride. It’s part of the Terminal 3 expansion at McCarran Airport.
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In the next couple decades, highway and airport traffic will surpass capacity as transportation infrastructure strains to hold together.
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Books: New book states case for passenger trains as 21st-century transportation
The Lyon County Museum in Yerington will hold its annual Open House this Saturday, June 19. The Museum will be open from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. with guides available at each building to answer questions.
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Museum Open House this Saturday
Have you seen the model train exhibit at the Lyon County Museum in Yerington? If not make plans to see it soon, and then thank Lido Tognoli for spearheading his retirement from the Museum Board of Directors, but has promised to help with the upkeep of the model trains.
Chet Kafchinski was admired by all those who knew him; and for those who did not, it is more the pity.
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Chet Kafchinski (Mason Valley News)
Railroad building is not for the financially timid. Except for a few tourist trains hauling sightseers up scenic mountains, private passenger rail companies don’t exist in this country for a reason. Railroads don’t make money.
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Public or private, rail line will need major subsidies from government (Las Vegas Sun)