For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
Inside a room of the Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education on Sunday morning, train whistles blew and children cheered as model trains barrelled around handmade tracks. In another room, families crowded around vendors’ stands, eager to purchase their own model train sets.
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At first glance, nothing unique stands out about Tom Gilchrist’s garden, but given a few seconds one might hear a “choo-choo” or “chug” rise from behind the potted petunias. When the Fairwood man’s model train hobby started as a Christmas gift 20 years ago, little did he know that it would take over his backyard.
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The physicist John Hardy was an international authority in the field of lattice dynamics – the vibrations of atoms within crystals – and was responsible for the development of the famous Deformation Dipole Model for calculating the vibrational properties of insulators. He started his career in England, but moved to the University of Nebraska in 1966, and spent the rest of his life there ...
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Professor John Hardy: Physicist celebrated for his work in the field of lattice dynamics
Peter Upton, 11, of Yankton studies the detailed landscape laid out for the model train displays at the Missouri Valley Model Railroad Club’s exhibit, which began Friday at the club’s headquarters at 221 West Third St. Several model trains operated simultaneously, with hundreds of cars riding the rails. The exhibit continues from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. today (Saturday). (Kelly Hertz/P&D)
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An Eye For Detail
The Iain Coucher era is coming to an end. For three years the Lamborghini and Aston Martin-driving former missile designer has ruled Network Rail in his abrasive, can-do style. In that time, he has established Network Rail, the publicly funded body that took over the operation and maintenance of the railways in 2002, as a model of cost-cutting and passenger safety.
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Wanted: One thick-skinned chief exec for Network Rail
It looks like Virgin Trains picked the wrong man to annoy when a string of its staff rather let down Simon Middleton at Crewe station recently. Mr Middleton is in the process of promoting his book, Build a Brand in 30 Days, and thus has access to the services of a public relations agency. It promptly put together a press release cataloguing Virgin's shabby treatment of Mr Middleton, and sent it ...
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Business Diary: Red signal for Virgin Trains
“Best reinvention of a de-commissioned dockyard” – I’m not sure if there is such a prize, but if there is, then I have no doubt of the winner. One good reason that Britain ruled the waves (mostly) from Elizabethan times to the Second World War was Chatham Dockyard, a place of tremendous energy and innovation. HMS Victory was just one of the ships that was launched here.
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“Best reinvention of a de-commissioned dockyard” – I’m not sure if there is such a prize, but if there is, then I have no doubt of the winner. One good reason that Britain ruled the waves (mostly) from Elizabethan times to the Second World War was Chatham Dockyard, a place of tremendous energy and innovation. HMS Victory was just one of the ships that was launched here.
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Plunge into Chatham's naval history
JUNCTION CITY - Main Street was a sweltering jumble of activity Saturday for Junction City's Railroad Days parade and events.
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Junction's Railroad Days on track again
So is this the moment Brangelina comes crashing down? Will the Jolie-Pitt union survive the latest revelations in Andrew Morton's new biography, just published in America? This week Jolie, voted the most powerful female celebrity in the world by Forbes magazine, may be holding her breath. Then again she may not.
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