Saturday, February 4th, 2012
By Robert Napper, Times Correspondent Saturday, February 4, 2012 These poker players are among the many precise details at the new Suncoast Center for Fine Scale Modeling, a recently renovated 7,800-square-foot facility in Odessa. ODESSA — It is a behemoth in the modular train business. When it's pieced together, the Sundance Central Modular Railroad village spans 45 feet by 20 feet, with 235 ...
Read more:
World of model trains and tiny treasures comes to Pasco
Posted in Model Train News | No Comments »
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Three sales next week will offer items appealing to the metallurgically minded: a gold presentation trophy; a collection of brass model railroad trains, and advertising signs made of tin. Off to the smelters.
Read more:
Auctions: Philadelphia-area auctions offer trains and metal memorabilia
Posted in Model Train News | No Comments »
Sunday, January 29th, 2012
Model railroad trains have rolled into the big E expo center.
More:
Big E hosts Railroad Hobby Show
Posted in Model Train News | No Comments »
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Wanda McLain and her great-grandson Casey Eppley of Walkersville watch model trains chug along the tracks during the Frederick County Society of Model Engineers’ open house Sunday afternoon in Frederick
Continue here: Around Town: Movin' down the track
Posted in Model Train News | No Comments »
Friday, January 13th, 2012
A favorite train display with a lot of history will soon close its doors. After 26 years, The Old Mauch Chunk Model Train Display in Jim Thorpe, Carbon Co., will be packed up on Sunday. "We've been open year-round for 26-and-a-half years. We opened August 22, 1985," said Michael Heery, whose family owns the display. Before that, Heery said, it took one family nearly 50 years to collect the ...
More here: Popular display of model trains reaches end of the line
Posted in Model Train News | No Comments »
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
An event known as "The World's Greatest Hobby on Tour" is underway at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. It is model railroading and it features a train ride for kids, model trains, seminars and... Read more at www.WISHTV.com
Go here to see the original:
Model Railroading at fairgrounds
Posted in Model Train News | No Comments »
Monday, January 2nd, 2012
These model trains run on tracks that lead nowhere -- except in the imaginations of little boys like Isaac Henion and his brother, Jackson.
Read more:
Mall railroad reaches end of tracks
Posted in Model Train News | No Comments »
Friday, December 23rd, 2011
Can you imagine a Christmas tree without a train? You don’t have to be a fan of TV’s Hell on Wheels to be passionate about trains. Over the years the fascination of trains — and model trains — has never lost its appeal.
Read the rest here:
Model trains ring in the holiday season
Posted in Model Train News | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
A 56-year-old Salisbury man is accused of stealing model trains from his step father and selling them at a pawn shop.
More here: Salisbury man accused of stealing model trains from stepfather
Posted in Model Train News | No Comments »
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) -- Train modelers of all ages are all aboard the Model Railroad Extravaganza this weekend at the Wilmington Railroad Museum. Organizers geared this year's event more toward kids in an effort to keep the love for model trains alive for future generations. Little ones and teens can participate in challenges around the model tracks to earn an engineer certificate. Model ...
See the original post:
All aboard the model train extravaganza
Posted in Model Train News | No Comments »