For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
During the heyday of passenger rail service, nothing surpassed Pennsylvania Railroad's Broadway Limited. Running between New York and Chicago — with Pennsylvania stops at Philadelphia, Paoli, Harrisburg, Altoona and Pittsburgh — it was the cream of the crop when it came to luxury rail tr...
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Donation of miniature trains has big impact on Strasburg museum
License plates from Michigan, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Virginia showed up last week at the Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum in Richland. read more »
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Model railroad museum in Richland draws up to 10,000 guests annually
Greenberg's Train and Toy Show will be rolling into the station at the Lancaster County Convention Center this weekend. Lancaster is just one stop for the show, which features a huge display of model trains, train collectibles, demonstrations, a train marketplace and even a train that carries passen...
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Make tracks for big model train show at Convention Center
The Sebring Model Railroad Club knows a thing or two about model trains. For starters, the group has built a 3,000-foot layout in the Sebring Station, which it owns.
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Memories ride the rails of the HO gauge model train layout in a room of Jerry McRoberts' Charleston home that was specially built for what has been a hobby of a lifetime.
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Hobby of a lifetime: Charleston resident’s love of trains leads to extensive model collection
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.
Rev. Joseph Kean can't wait to blow his own horn – literally. The retired priest has model trains galore and he's working on a display at a small Allentown mall where the public can enjoy them as much as he does.
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'I hear the train a comin'
The Virginia Train Collectors’ Train Meet took place on Sunday at the Chesterfield County Fairgrounds. For Christmas 20 years ago, Gail Scott gave her husband, Jim, a toy train. That gift is now the foundation of a time-consuming yet pleasurable family hobby.
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Rod Stewart builds model trains backstage when he’s on tour. While some rock stars indulge in hedonistic pursuits such as drinking, drug-taking and casual sex when they come offstage, the Scottish singer requests a large table in his dressing room so he can indulge his hobby of building scale models of railways. He also makes
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CINNAMINSON — Nostalgia is right on track with technology for the Burlington County Model Railroad Club.
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Model railroad club roars to life