Books: New book states case for passenger trains as 21st-century transportation

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

In the next couple decades, highway and airport traffic will surpass capacity as transportation infrastructure strains to hold together.

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Museum Open House this Saturday

Friday, June 18th, 2010

The Lyon County Museum in Yerington will hold its annual Open House this Saturday, June 19. The Museum will be open from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. with guides available at each building to answer questions.

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Museum Open House this Saturday

Museum Notes (Mason Valley News)

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Have you seen the model train exhibit at the Lyon County Museum in Yerington? If not make plans to see it soon, and then thank Lido Tognoli for spearheading his retirement from the Museum Board of Directors, but has promised to help with the upkeep of the model trains.

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Chet Kafchinski (Mason Valley News)

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

Chet Kafchinski was admired by all those who knew him; and for those who did not, it is more the pity.

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All aboard the garden railroad (Truckee Times)

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Phil Langley has been interested in trains since he was a youngster in the 1930s. He would stand alongside the railway tracks that ran through his family's ranch in Ukiah, to watch trains go by.

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