Tiny trains carry tons of fun at Rail Fest (Bluefield Daily Telegraph)

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

BLUEFIELD — Children stand tiptoe and peek into miniature worlds while adults around them talk in terms of track gauges, wheel sensors and other pieces of the model train world at the 21st Annual Rail Fest.

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Looking Back 1901: Baltimore to Cumberland, the hard way (Cumberland Times-News)

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

Nowadays, you can drive from Baltimore to Cumberland in 2 1/2 hours — less if you have a lead foot.

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‘Round the bend (Cumberland Times-News)

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Reid Smith and Zoe Welsch watch the model trains on display inside City Place Saturday during the annual Frostburg Storybook Holiday.

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All aboard (Cumberland Times-News)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

Though it may not be what he once worked on at the World’s Fair in New York in 1940, Bob Green said he’s impressed with the Maryland/West Virginia Model Railroad Association’s model railroad display.

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