For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
The Gadsden-Pacific Division Toy Train Operating Museum has been dedicated to sharing model trains with the public for more than 20 years.
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Train lovers share their passion
YORBA LINDA - The model trains are again chugging on the tracks at the Nixon Presidential Library & Museum.The Holiday Festival of Trains has become somewhat of an annual tradition at the library, from model trains representing various periods in history to the fantasy, such as a Thomas...
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Can you hear that whistle blowing? It’s comin’ round the bend at the Museum of Aviation at Robins Air Force Base.
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Trains invade the planes at Museum of Aviation
If you're into model trains then the Saginaw Railway Museum is the place to be this weekend. The Saginaw Valley Railroad Historical Society will celebrate the beginning of National Model Railroad Month.
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All aboard! Free model train show in Saginaw
Model trains back on the track
If you're a fan of trains, maybe even slightly obsessed with them, Jim Sullivan of the Black Hills Railway Society wants you to know that you're not alone.
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Model train fans combine old, new
There’s something calming about watching model trains snake along tracks through ornate villages built by area train enthusiasts. The 11th annual Waynesboro Lions Club train show is headed to the Mont Alto Volunteer Fire Department from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 6. Two working model train layouts will fill the fire hall, along with 80 vendors selling train sets, model trains and automobiles ...
THEY normally spend their days working alongside very big locos – but now staff at the National Railway Museum in York have been trying out some very small pedal trains.
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Toy and model train event and railway poster exhibition at National Railway Museum
There are three tiny little towns in the area you won’t find on any map. Trains pull through the towns, announcing their approach with whistles. Lights twinkle from the buildings. The towns, Bakersville, New City and Cobbleton, are part of a 25-foot-by-60-foot layout for the Evergreen Railroad Modelers’ HO gauge railroad.
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Railroad modelers right on track for fun - Thu, 13 Oct 2011 PST
Duane Krueger's interest in model trains began at an early age and as an adult he was an avid collector.He had 60 feet of track for his model trains in his basement."I always enjoyed model trains," he said quietly, seated in a wheelchair at Good Samaritan Society Bethany in Brainerd where he has lived for eight years.
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Riding the rails at Bethany