For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
Don Gressler stands over four large black transformers, deftly moving the levers that control four Lionel trains cruising over his homemade train set.
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Loco for locomotives
Screenwriter, best-selling novelist and "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" director Nicholas Meyer has put his Pacific Palisades house up for sale at $7.3 million. The two-story Cliff May design, built in 1937, has been his family home for 15 years.
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Fountain in courtyard is focal point of writer-director's house
It's official. The dog days of summer are upon us. What better time to take up that new sport or hobby you've always been interested in but never got around to trying? Here are a few ideas you may not have considered that can be done right near home.
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Canines jobs help improve quality of life in Manitowoc County.
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Working like a dog
Janice Hedin's son was into model rockets, so she used that as a starting point for his home-school curriculum. Her daughter loved horses, and that became a focal point for her education.
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Not all home school methods use curricula
The DC-3 has its place in the history books as the first aircraft to fly passengers coast to coast and the plane that dropped paratroopers on the beaches of Normandy during World War II.
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DC-3 an aviation game-changer
A game changing aircraft that was designed to compete with trains in the 1930s and later played a legendary role as a transport plane during World War II will be honored at AirVenture as it celebrates its 75th anniversary.
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DC-3 honored for 75th anniversary
By Linda Ann Chomin
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In the next couple decades, highway and airport traffic will surpass capacity as transportation infrastructure strains to hold together.
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Books: New book states case for passenger trains as 21st-century transportation