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Sunday | The News-Review

County writes off USA Plastics tax bill

Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday wrote off back taxes owed by a defunct model railroad manufacturer once based in Roseburg.

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Related Topix: Douglas County, OR, Life, Model Railroading, Hobbies, Roseburg, OR, Economics News, Bankruptcy

Fri Dec 04, 2009

WHNT-TV Huntsville

ETSU railroad museum having model railroad holiday clinics until Christmas

The George L. Carter Railroad Museum at East Tennessee State University is offering its second annual series of holiday workshops about model railroading.

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Related Topix: Life, Model Railroading, Hobbies, Holidays, Christmas

Thu Dec 03, 2009

Wheeling News

It's a Small World

A model train making its way around the base of the Christmas tree is about as American as hot dogs, baseball and apple pie - and this year Eric Freeland of Windsor Heights is spreading that brand of holiday cheer to a few local businesses.

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Related Topix: Life, Model Railroading, Hobbies, Windsor Heights, WV, Warwood, WV

Wed Dec 02, 2009

Chambersburg Public Opinion

Trains and more trains

Model train clubs and hobbyists in the Cumberland Valley have been working hard to prepare for a holiday of locomotion delight.

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Related Topix: Life, Model Railroading, Hobbies, Hagerstown, MD, Opinion

Mon Nov 30, 2009

Bizjournals

This patent fight isna t kidsa play

Mike Wolf holds a patent that synchronizes the smoke and sound with a model train's speed.

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Related Topix: Life, Model Railroading, Hobbies, Ormond Beach, FL, CPU, Science / Technology

Sun Nov 29, 2009

Tacoma News Tribune

Hobbyist fire burns bright in young kids, then fades

Kids aren't interested in model trains, you say? Sure couldn't prove it by the throngs of families pouring into one of the exhibition buildings at the Puyallup fairgrounds last weekend.

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Related Topix: Family, Kids, Life, Model Railroading, Hobbies, Puyallup, WA, Tacoma Metro, Tacoma, WA

Sat Nov 28, 2009

The York Daily Record

Check out model train display in Glen Rock

It's time to chug on into town for the Glen Rock Hose and Ladder Company's 21st annual model train display.

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Related Topix: Life, Model Railroading, Hobbies, 9, Ohio

Fri Nov 27, 2009

The Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter L...

Five things to do in Manitowoc County this weekend

Tired from shopping? Here are five ideas for ways to wind down in Manitowoc County this weekend.

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Related Topix: Manitowoc County, WI, Two Rivers, WI, Manitowoc, WI, Family, Kids, Life, Model Railroading, Hobbies

Medford Mail Tribune

Rogue Valley Railroad Show 2009

Tony Johnson's fascination with trains started with "chugga-chugga choo-choo" and a wind-up toy train his mother gave him when he was 4 years old.

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Related Topix: Life, Model Railroading, Hobbies, Medford, OR, Medford Metro, Butte Falls, OR

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Campbell County Recorder

Toy trains roll into Behringer-Crawford

After working for a month as a volunteer setting up more than 250 feet of toy train tracks, placing tiny trees and arranging people into scenes of times gone by, John Lange got his reward Saturday.

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Related Topix: Life, Model Railroading, Hobbies, Villa Hills, KY, Covington, KY, Fort Wright, KY, Florence, KY

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Village Soup

'Share the Wonder' celebration returns

"Old Kris," N.C. Wyeth's iconic 1925 oil painting, will be part of this year's "Share the Wonder" exhibition at the Farnsworth Art Museum's Wyeth Center in Rockland.

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Related Topix: Painting, Arts, Rockland, ME, Life, Model Railroading, Hobbies, Camden, ME, Bar Harbor, ME

Sat Nov 21, 2009

WCPO-TV9

Holiday Toy Trains Open In Devou Park

The signs are up in Devou Park for the 18th Annual Holiday Toy Train at Behringer-Crawford Museum.

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Related Topix: Life, Model Railroading, Hobbies

Thu Nov 19, 2009

WHEC-TV Rochester

Gardner the Train Doctor, chugging along for nearly 70 years

Don Roder found his fountain of youth while playing with a model train set as a small boy in the 1930's. "I enjoy it.

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Related Topix: Life, Model Railroading, Hobbies

The Cincinnati Enquirer

Choo choo displays on track for holidays

Thanksgiving is a week away, but holiday train displays already are arriving in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Cincinnati, OH, Christmas, Model Railroading, Hobbies

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Asbury Park Press Online

Trains in gardens a particular hit at holiday time

At holiday time, trains whiz through Richard Kloewer's yard, past the lighted evergreen trees, dolls, teddy bears, even a miniature Harley Davidson display.

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Related Topix: Home Gardening, Home, Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Model Railroading, Hobbies, Waukesha, WI, Milwaukee Metro

This is Wiltshire

Classic toys up for auction in Chippenham

Toys from as far back as the turn of the last century will go into an auction in Chippenham next week.

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Related Topix: Life, Model Railroading, Hobbies

Mon Nov 16, 2009

Lansing State Journal

Delta-based train group plans show, sale

EAST LANSING - Arriving at the Michigan State University Pavilion on Sunday, Nov.

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Related Topix: Lansing Metro, Lansing, MI, East Lansing, MI, Life, Model Railroading, Hobbies

Sat Nov 14, 2009

CourierPostOnline

It's 'All aboard' for Camden Children's Garden train fest

There's something about trains -- the rhythmic gears, initial roar or distant howl -- that transports Rod Sadler back to another time.

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Related Topix: Camden, NJ, Family, Kids, Life, Model Railroading, Hobbies

Thu Nov 12, 2009

Freerepublic.com

A Holiday Festival of Trains Pulls into the Nixon Presidential Library

A playful special exhibit at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum will take visitors on a magical journey through the world of miniature trains when it rolls into town November 16 through January 10.

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Related Topix: Life, Model Railroading, Hobbies, Yorba Linda, CA, Linda, CA

Wed Nov 11, 2009

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Life Lines: Trainspotting; Divine dining; The good earth

Like trains? Love Trainfest . This is the 38th anniversary of the show, which claims to be "America's largest operating model railroad show." There are expected to be more than 50 detailed model train layouts in all different scales filling the Wisconsin Exposition Center, 8200 W. Greenfield Ave., West Allis, Saturday and next Sunday from 9:30 a.m.

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Related Topix: Life, Model Railroading, Hobbies, West Allis, WI, Genesee Depot, WI, Brown Deer, WI, Entertainment

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