Model railroad museum in Richland draws up to 10,000 guests annually

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

License plates from Michigan, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Virginia showed up last week at the Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum in Richland.  read more »

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Model railroad museum in Richland draws up to 10,000 guests annually

A model-train lover’s paradise

Saturday, November 26th, 2011

Eight-year-old Ethan Saul has a 14-foot by 9-foot model train layout with vintage steam locomotives at home, and Friday he was in his element as he admired the Harry Potter Hogwarts Express train at the Science Museum of Virginia.

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Model train show and sale attracts hundreds

Monday, November 7th, 2011

PARKERSBURG - The Mid-Ohio Valley Model Railroad Club expected as many as 400 children and adults for its 16th annual Model Train Show and Sale in the student activities center Saturday at West Virginia University at Parkersburg. "It's a sort of flea market for all different scales of model trains," said co-organizer Mark Suek with the club. The event included 76 vendor tables with model ...

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Model Trains on Display During WVU’s Mountaineer Week

Monday, October 31st, 2011

Mountaineer Week kicks off with a number of events, including a child's favorite, the trains.

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Center trains BRCC students for advanced manufacturing jobs

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

The 20,500-square-foot building houses the college’s engineering, physics, mathematics, electronics and automated manufacturing programs.

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Model train show to make rare Central Va. appearance

Friday, August 5th, 2011

The Virginia Train Collectors’ Summer Train Meet will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Holiday Inn Monticello on Fifth Street Extended. Admission is $6; free for children 12 and under.

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Railroad Heritage Days a family heritage for some

Sunday, May 22nd, 2011

Maybe it’s in the blood. The thrill at the cry of the train whistle rising and falling. The excitement born of the bell clanging and the chug-chug of wheel on rail. Brady Haugh, 4, of Waynesboro, Pa., gazed upon a Hagerstown Roundhouse Museum model-train display Saturday at Railroad Heritage Days. “Both of his great-grandfathers were into trains. They would be happy to see this,” said Brady’s ...

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CHOO, CHOO! ALL ABOARD FOR FUN AT THE EXPO CENTER

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

BY JESSICA MASULLI For many, there are fond family memories of toy trains choo-chooing around the Christmas tree....

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Model-railroads show returns after a year’s hiatus

Saturday, November 27th, 2010

Eleven-year-old Robert Brockmeier examined the miniature city with a train running through trailing a cloud of smoke.

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Hopkins trains doctors in urban health

Sunday, October 10th, 2010

Doctors learn to prescribe more than medication, as program seeks to redefine city's health Doctors in a new Hopkins program are preparing themselves to address the whole range of urban ills. At left, Physician Deanna Wilson checks 11-month-old Daryus Muse of Towson in the exam room of Johns Hopkins Harriet Lane Primary Care Clinic.

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