For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
Employees of the Vernon County Ambulance District take a newly-acquired rescue boat and motor out for a training session on Walton Lake in Nevada on Saturday. The 2011 model inflatable boat is made by Mercury and is 14.1 feet long and has a six foot beam.
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VCAD trains with new boat
The Reading Society of Model Engineers hosted an open house over the weekend at its clubhouse in Alsace Township to kick off the group's 2012 season, which runs from May to November.
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Models on the rails - some big enough to ride
Bianca Chirrick, 5, left, and her sister Camila, 7, right, enjoy the model trains passing by during the Spring Open House at the Glendale Model Railroad Club in Glendale on Saturday, May 5, 2012.
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Model train club gives public a bird's-eye view
GALVESTON When Steve Townley got his first look at the Galveston Model Railroad Club and Museum one thought entered his mind.
Trains of all sizes, from tiny Z-scale model trains to a full size Burlington Northern Santa Fe diesel electric engine, attracted visitors of all sizes to the Fullerton Train Station for Railroad Days 2012. This marked the return of this railroad fan event to the city after four years, caused by...
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A model train runs around a track at Fremont Public Library. (Heather Holm) North Central O Gaugers, a model railroad club based at the Fremont Public Library in Mundelein, presented a circus/carnival-themed model railroad display Saturday at the Wauconda Area Public Library.
Richard J. Ryan, a railroad enthusiast and model train hobbyist who worked 30 years as a machine and equipment mechanic for Western Electric, died Monday in the Center for Hospice&Palliative Care, Cheektowaga. He was 84.
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Richard J. Ryan, mechanic, model train hobbyist
Hornby, the model trains and Scalextric group, issued its second profits warning of the year yesterday, as it said a return to profitability in its international business had not been enough to counter continued tough trading in the UK.
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Hornby's second profit warning of 2012
Victoria's Secret models are "rarer than the world's top-performing" athletes.
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Victoria's Secret models a rare breed
Members of the Sun City Center Model Railroad Club enjoy the club's open houses as much as the youngsters who visit.
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