For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
'High-speed rail' might not deliver the Obama vision By Robb Mandelbaum The Obama administration's great high-speed rail building boom is nearly upon us. Applications for the first chunk of the $8 billion in stimulus money were due to the Department...
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Column: 'High-speed rail' might not deliver the Obama vision (USA Today)
The old saying about one man’s junk being another man’s treasure isn’t just a bunch of words to three Lorain County boys, especially when that junk is an old tractor. Clayton Jones, 12, of Avon, has spent the better part of the summer restoring a 1964 Simplicity tractor. “It was a piece of junk, a rusted thing
Continue here: Four 4-Hers take part in tractor restoration (The Elyria Chronicle-Telegram)
Imagine zipping above the sidewalk crowds in a personal transporter pod suspended from a two foot wide cable propelled by a magnetic field. It's not as far-fetched as you may think. A California startup called Unimodal is building what it calls the SkyTran system--a series of two-person pods that move eight to fifteen feet above people on the ground. Unlike traditional Maglev trains that run on ...
SYKESVILLE — Christopher Collins’ eyes tracked the B&O railcars as they wound out of sight and reappeared from a tunnel directly in front of him.
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'Train guys of Sykesville': Model lovers flock to railway to see display (Carroll County Times)
Whole Foods Market , the country's first national certified organic grocer and CCOF, one of the oldest and largest USDA-accredited third-party organic certifiers, announced today that each of the grocer's 273 stores in the United States has been individually certified, complying with stricter guidance on federal regulations.
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Despite Stricter Federal Requirements, Whole Foods Market Remains Committed to Organic Certification (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
The Downtown Development Authority will host First Friday: Spend a Night on the Town, this Friday. Events include exhibits by local artists, live music and tours of the Freight Station Train Museum.
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Trains, music take over First Friday in Greeley (Greeley Tribune)
Computer engineers weren't the first people to create miniature alternate realities; model-railroad engineers did a pretty fine job.
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Giant Model Railroad Is an Analog SimCity (Wired News)
The recession has been slowing passenger revenue growth at Arriva, especially in the company’s CrossCountry rail franchise, which saw year-on-year passenger revenue growth of 4.5 growth at Arriva Trains Wales.
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Tuesday preview: Arriva, Carpetright, HMV (ShareCast)
Trains, model planes and automobiles will be on show this weekend when the annual Steam and Vintage Rally rolls into Wolverhampton.
Continue here: It’s full steam ahead for rally (Express and Star)
Labor program trains farmworkers effectively David Strauss, Executive Director,Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs - Washington USA TODAY's article "Budget office seen shifting gears" misleads readers about a Department of Labor program that trains migrant and seasonal farmworkers for new jobs...
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Labor program trains farmworkers effectively (USA Today)