For Rare And Hard To Find Model Trains
Building a model railroad takes creativity, imagination, engineering skills and artistry. Tom Baughman of Plain Township has everything it takes to do the job “just right.”
Continue here: Plain Township man is a master at model railroads (The Canton Repository)
THE VILLAGES — A smile stretched across Cole Kelly’s face as he pointed to the intricate details of the model trains and scenes at The Villages Railroad Historical Society’s Holiday Train Show Sunday.
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Holiday Train Show leaves station for another year (The Villages Daily Sun)
Doug Tagsold has been a railroad enthusiast since he was a little boy. His love of model railroads has been passed down from his grandparents to his parents and to him. “When I was growing up, both my grandparents had Lionel train sets in the basement,” he said. “I thought it was a standard part of a home.” Visitors are invited to see the layout free of charge from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday and ...
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Trains galore: Railroad buffs will have plenty to explore as Blissfield celebrates trains this coming weekend (The Daily Telegram)
Hometown pride swelled as a 30 year old song about the Stourbridge Lion was resurrected, and model train maker Lionel LLC presented its own Lion in Honesdale, Friday night.
More here: Stourbridge Lion celebrated with Lionel model, song (The Wayne Independent)
Elijah Jones peered over the edge of a model train layout, reaching toward the foam mountain where a locomotive had just disappeared into a tunnel.
Continue here: Older generations share interest in model trains with children (The State Journal-Register)
Amid tomten, ljustrums and julboks, Lionel sticks out in Bishop Hill’s Colony Steeple building. That’s Lionel as in model train. Tomte is the mythological protective elf; ljustrum is the traditional Swedish candelabra; and julbok is the Swedish yule goat, often represented as a straw figure.
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Model recalls Bishop Hill’s railroad past (The Galesburg Register-Mail)
HUNTINGTON -- More than a dozen model trains are set up this weekend at the Veterans Memorial Field House in Huntington for the 52nd annual Appalachian Model Railroad Society Show.
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Model Railroad Society Show for young and young at heart (The Huntington Herald-Dispatch)
Greater Honesdale Partnership (GHP) held their Annual Meeting Thursday night, and were briefed on further developments to market the area as the Birthplace of the American Railroad. After hearing a plan to bring luxury passenger trains to Honesdale, a presentation was made about another project, to build a working, full scale model of the Stourbridge Lion, which will run by steam and take ...
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GHP hears of Stourbridge Lion project (The Wayne Independent)
The Springfield City Council is scheduled to vote tonight on a measure to provide $50,000 in public money to pay for a computer model that will show how more trains on either Third Street or 10th Street will affect vehicular traffic.
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City might pay $50,000 for computer model for high-speed rail study (The State Journal-Register)
Lionel LLC, synonymous with keeping alive the childhood fascination with trains for all ages, has taken on the original commercial locomotive to operate in America. The model railroad manufacturer is coming out with a scale model of the Stourbridge Lion, and if one local entrepreneur has his way, it may be unveiled in Honesdale.
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Interest high in Lionel’s Stourbridge Lion (The Wayne Independent)