For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
Local model train clubs were on hand as were dozens of vendors selling everything from CD's featuring the sounds of trains in rumbling high-fidelity to collectors offering the rarest of vintage models.
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Photos: Model train show features big layouts, tiny trains
As the foot-long model train engine chugged around the tracks Saturday, making its way through an idyllic miniature town and blowing a horn, Mo Clark tried to decide which of her boys was most mesmerized: 5-year-old Colin, 7-year-old Aidan — or 41-year-old Wayne, Clark’s husband. “There’s something about boys and …
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Conducting magic
As the foot-long model train engine chugged around the tracks Saturday, making its way through an idyllic miniature town and blowing a horn, Mo Clark tried to decide which of her boys was most mesmerized: 5-year-old Colin, 7-year-old Aidan — or 41-year-old Wayne, Clark’s husband. “There’s something about boys and …
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Mall’s model trains captivate kids of all ages
Now in it's 23rd year, the Willamette Cascade Model Railroad Show was in Eugene this weekend.
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Model railroad show brings out kids young and old
Mt. Hood looms as campers enjoy a flashing fire and a train whistle sounds in the background. An autumn evening in the wilderness? Nope. It’s Russ Betschart’s tribute to the rails.
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A World on Rails
The general aviation airport has four workers who, among other things, shoot starter pistols, mop up water and shoo away rodents to make the runaways inhospitable to birds.
ASHLAND The city is launching an 18-month process to create a greener Transportation System Plan focused not just on cars but on pedestrians, bicycles and trains.
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Ashland seeks to create a greener Transportation System Plan
Rehab of a ruptured Achilles' tendon wasn't Keith Pankey's onlyfocus with the Oregon State football team during the spring andsummer.
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Pankey's passions extend beyond football
Railroads hold a universal appeal, captivating and bringing smiles to the faces of just about everyone, from small children to senior citizens. If you've ever spent time around the train table at A.C. Gilbert's Discovery Village or Mission Mill during Magic at the Mill, you've felt it.
Continue here: Salem area's garden railroads will be on display
Eleven years after an accidental shooting took her eyes, nose and cheeks, Chrissy Steltz tries on her face replacement for family and friends.
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Chrissy Steltz of Milwaukie, injured by shotgun blast, tries on prosthetic face after yearlong effort