Model trains: all in the family
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012The saying goes that the family that stays together plays together. For one West Virginia clan, playtime is all about trains.
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Model trains: all in the family
Model railroad museum in Richland draws up to 10,000 guests annually
Thursday, January 5th, 2012License 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, 2011Eight-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, 2011PARKERSBURG - 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, 2011Mountaineer Week kicks off with a number of events, including a child's favorite, the trains.
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Model Trains on Display During WVU's Mountaineer Week
Center trains BRCC students for advanced manufacturing jobs
Thursday, September 15th, 2011The 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, 2011The 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, 2011Maybe 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, 2011BY JESSICA MASULLI For many, there are fond family memories of toy trains choo-chooing around the Christmas tree....
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CHOO, CHOO! ALL ABOARD FOR FUN AT THE EXPO CENTER
Model-railroads show returns after a year’s hiatus
Saturday, November 27th, 2010Eleven-year-old Robert Brockmeier examined the miniature city with a train running through trailing a cloud of smoke.