For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
So if a car's experience is so fundamentally different than riding transit, what parallel experience can we plumb for joyous attributes? I would propose we look for a model to long-distance trains and their sense of possibility and romance, not the raw sex of cars.
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Carol Pierson Holding: A Better Idea for Branding Public Transit
Trains of all sizes, from tiny Z-scale model trains to a full size Burlington Northern Santa Fe diesel electric engine, attracted visitors of all sizes to the Fullerton Train Station for Railroad Days 2012. This marked the return of this railroad fan event to the city after four years, caused by...
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Farmpark in Kirtland presents "Railroads in the Parks" Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Highlights include model trains, a railroad-themed play area, activities, historical exhibits and more. Admission is $6 for adults, $5 for visitors 60 and over, and $4 for children 2-11. Children under 2 and Farmpark members are free. In addition, all Lake County residents enjoy free entry with ...
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Farmpark features rail fun all weekend
The event is from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Lake Metroparks Farmpark, 8800 Euclid Chardon Road, Kirtland. Farmpark admission is $4 for ages 2 to 11, $5 for ages 60 and over and $6 for ages 12 to 59. Children younger than 2 are free.
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Richard J. Ryan, a railroad enthusiast and model train hobbyist who worked 30 years as a machine and equipment mechanic for Western Electric, died Monday in the Center for Hospice&Palliative Care, Cheektowaga. He was 84.
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Richard J. Ryan, mechanic, model train hobbyist
5,800 metres of track, 200,000 lights, 90,000 figures, and 150 trains.
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Outnumbered by the women at an Irvine senior living center, men rediscover the joy of model making that has been dormant since they were young. Along with trains and planes, they build fellowship. The ladies are everywhere at the Atria Woodbridge senior living community in Irvine: It is the ladies who fill the dining hall, the ladies who while away the afternoon chatting and doing crossword ...
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In retirees' Man Cave, a return to the hobbies of youth
Victoria's Secret models are "rarer than the world's top-performing" athletes.
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Victoria's Secret models a rare breed
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are not the way to get better buses and trains, or better value for money from transport, said the Green Party today.
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Hundreds flocked to Essex Junction for the annual model train show put on by Vermont Rails.
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Trains roll into Essex Jct.