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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

"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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.