Miniature Trains Recall Marceline’s Past – Part 1

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Walsworth Community Center Board of Directors will celebrate Marceline’s railroading roots by hosting its second annual Model Train Show. The event will be held, as it was in 2010, at the Walsworth Community Center. Bring the kids and enjoy recalling your own childhood, and that of your community, as you view some elaborate operating model train layouts. Then ...

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Miniature Trains Recall Marceline’s Past - Part 1

Miniature Trains Recall Marceline’s Past – Part 1

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Walsworth Community Center Board of Directors will celebrate Marceline’s railroading roots by hosting its second annual Model Train Show. The event will be held, as it was in 2010, at the Walsworth Community Center. Bring the kids and enjoy recalling your own childhood, and that of your community, as you view some elaborate operating model train layouts. Then ...

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Miniature Trains Recall Marceline’s Past - Part 1

Center trains BRCC students for advanced manufacturing jobs

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

The 20,500-square-foot building houses the college’s engineering, physics, mathematics, electronics and automated manufacturing programs.

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Model train show to make rare Central Va. appearance

Friday, August 5th, 2011

The Virginia Train Collectors’ Summer Train Meet will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Holiday Inn Monticello on Fifth Street Extended. Admission is $6; free for children 12 and under.

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Love of trains rolls on for hobbyists at Richmond show

Monday, March 14th, 2011

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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Ditching Cars For Bullet Trains – Can Obama Get High-Speed On Track

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

President Barack Obama wants to upgrade America's transport system using high-speed trains, bringing a taste of what is a part of everyday life in Europe and Asia to the United States. But the car-obsessed nation is divided over the plans. Is the mammoth project doomed to failure?

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MIDWEST MEMOIRS: Chugging along

Sunday, February 20th, 2011

The heart of every community is its people.

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Model-railroads show returns after a year’s hiatus

Saturday, November 27th, 2010

Eleven-year-old Robert Brockmeier examined the miniature city with a train running through trailing a cloud of smoke.

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For the week of Sept. 3, 2010

Monday, September 6th, 2010

Richard B. Piccinini, born Sept. 22, 1928 in Eureka, Nev. died Aug. 20, 2010 peacefully at his home in Sun Lakes after a long illness. He was surrounded by the love of his life and wife, Marilyn, and his daughters, Victoria, Denise and Rachelle.

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Cybersecurity: Learning To Share

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

Back in the second week of January, the online behemoth Google Inc. revealed that hackers from China had broken into the American company's computer networks in order to steal information about Chinese dissidents -- a brazen and headline-grabbing cyber-attack that sounded alarm bells in Washington.

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