For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
Last week, while driving through his hometown of Holyoke and giving me a windshield tour of the city's historic neighborhoods, by chance Craig Della Penna spotted a tour bus parked next to the former passenger rail station. Without a second thought, he did a U-turn. There was a model railroad...
Continue here: The "Right of Way" Guy (The Valley Advocate)
Syd Adie has been sparring with the Dunedin City Council for 20 years, and yesterday councillors lined up to thank him.
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Council watchdog farewelled at afternoon tea reception (Otago Daily Times)
Stand on Bailey Street and look out onto Winter Hill Farm and you can see why town officials covet this land.
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Glastonbury Hoping To Add Winter Hill Farm To Its Protected Land Holdings (Hartford Courant)
A couple have kept their love alive by spending 20 years building a model of the town where they first met.
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Model couple re-create the town where they first met (Times Online)
Mary Keough of East Aurora, an employee of Immaculata Academy in Hamburg, announced last week that she will be swimming, cycling and running in the Philadelphia Triathlon in honor of two local blood cancer patients: her father, John Keough of North Collins, and five-year-old Malena Mercurio of East Aurora.
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Keough will Honor Two in Triathlon (East Aurora Advertiser)
The Aurora Town Board will hold a public hearing at 7 p.m. Mon. March 9 on the proposed conversion of a railway line to a public trail. The 27.6-mile line runs from Orchard Park to Ashford in Cattaraugus County, and goes through the Town of Aurora in the hamlet of West Falls.
More here: Aurora Board will Hear Rail Line Plans Monday (East Aurora Advertiser)
WINSLOW, Ariz. - Few and far between is the American of a certain age who cannot sing the lines: "Well, I'm a-standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona / And such a fine sight to see / It's a girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford / Slowin' down to take a look at me." Though that corner, popularized in ...
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On the route to a renaissance (Boston Globe)
Creston, Ia. - The gentle hills of southwestern Iowa rise and fall on the road leading here, past snow-dusted hay bales, farmsteads adorned with Christmas trees, abandoned barns and a sign for "Al Tomlinson Still Living Taxidermy."
Continue here: Creston’s residents reluctant to speak about charges against former police officers (The Des Moines Register)
Gilbert is a small town once again - within the basement of its historical museum.
Continue here: Gilbert museum features model railroad (East Valley Tribune)
For the eighth consecutive year, in conjunction with National Model Railroad Month, Jack Tingstad will host an open house at his model railroad layout from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 29 and 30, at 508 Broadway in Coupeville....
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Model railroad on display in Coupeville (Small Town Papers News Service)