Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
If you received a gift at birth and it has played a big part in the rest of your life, raise your hand. I see Tony Kleins hand in the air. I know its Tony because of the railroad cap hes wearing and the elaborate model train layout that takes up a large part of the garage at his home here on Marco. As Tony remembers it (well, as he was told when he got old enough to remember stuff): I was ...
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Marcophiles: The trains run on time in Islanders garage
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Saturday, March 27th, 2010
Organizers of the Central Railroad Festival say they are going all out this year to make the event more accessible and entertaining.
Continue here: Central Railroad Festival to expand with more music, memorabilia (Anderson Independent-Mail)
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Sunday, February 28th, 2010
EASLEY —Jim Cevasco smiled Sunday as he watched a train display with his grandson at the Central Railway Model and Historical Association’s annual train show.Cevasco, 63, of Simpsonville said he has been a train enthusiast since he was 4. He brought his grandson, Scott Buie, 8, to the show in the hopes of passing along his hobby to him one day.Scott said he was impressed by the speed of the ...
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Annual Central train show draws railroad enthusiasts (Anderson Independent-Mail)
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Saturday, February 13th, 2010
CORPUS CHRISTI —Drivers may soon have to give more latitude to bicyclists and pedestrians on the road.The city is considering a safe passing ordinance that would require motorists to go around cyclists or pedestrians by a certain margin. The distance is still being debated, but a model ordinance from a statewide organization suggests three feet for cars and six feet for trucks.Many cyclists in ...
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Ordinance would give bicyclists safe passage (Corpus Christi Caller-Times)
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
NAPLES —Four years.Fourteen-hundred-and sixty-one days, including the leap year for those doing the math - a high school education, an election cycle.For Justin Gatlin, sprinter extraordinaire, the last four years have crawled by slower than a slug with arthritis, and just as achingly so.In that speck of time, Gatlin has shrunk from an all-time great in his sport into a pariah. He's plunged from ...
More here: PHOTOS Banned sprinter Justin Gatlin trains for comeback in Naples (Naples Daily News)
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Hundreds came to Riverview Park on Dec. 24 to view Sunny’s holiday model train display set up around the community Christmas tree.
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All aboard for Riverview Park trains (Sebastian Sun)
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
SAN ANGELO, Texas —A well-traveled model railroad layout finally found a home.The huge project, covering two 4-by-8-foot platforms, shows Coleman and Luling (which is 22 miles southeast of San Marcos) as they may have looked between 1950 and 1970.Tiny children play in a park. Firefighters battle a house fire. Boaters float down the San Marcos River. Trains circle the towns, again and again and ...
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RICK SMITH: Tiny tracks took tedious trek (The San Angelo Standard-Times)
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Friday, October 9th, 2009
As concepts go, this one has barely left the station, yet it seems to already be heading down the right track. The Memphis Society of Model Railroaders -- a 75-member, 50-year-old organization of train enthusiasts and hobbyists -- has signed a letter of intent with Central Station and the Memphis Area Transit Authority to develop the Memphis Railroad & Trolley Museum inside the Downtown train ...
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Memphis Railroad & Trolley Museum on right track at Central Station (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
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Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
INDIANAPOLIS — It takes a deep knowledge of a subject and an innate ability to connect with students to be a successful teacher. That much is certain. But Tony Bennett, the state's highest-ranking education officer, ignited a debate this summer when he announced a proposal that would alter the balance between content and methods — skills that take time, and training, to master. Bennett is ...
Continue here: Changing the standard (Evansville Courier & Press)
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Monday, February 16th, 2009
THE woman behind a well-loved Christmas lights display in Workington has announced that this year’s effort will be her last as rising costs and practical issues hit home.
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Times & Star (West Cumberland Times & Star)
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