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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.

Chuck Lind has been a model-train enthusiast since he was a child. Over the years, Lind has built an extensive and lifelike model railroad at his home, which will be featured among open houses this weekend.

The Flint River Model Railroad Club of Albany Georgia will host an openhouse on November 14, 2009.

While most kids find an iPod or Nintendo DS under the Christmas tree these days, every year Dave Skinner tries to bring children back to his childhood fascination of toy trains.

The Texas Western Model Railroad Club is again opening its doors to railroad enthusiasts every Saturday this month, the only time of the year that nonmembers can check out the 4,400-square-foot layout of old Americana.The dues-paying club has worked for 12-plus years to build an exact model of Western railroading in the 1940s and '50s, from the ...

The Bellevue Area Chamber of Commerce and Bellevue Downtown Committee again will sponsor a holiday market this year in the previous Ben Franklin's Department Store, 127 E. Main St.

Posted by Minnesotastan in Everything Else , Toy & Video Games on October 26, 2009 at 10:35 am Model train enthusiast David K. Smith has built a miniscule train layout which works - the train travels in an ellipse, including through a "mountain." "Thus, what was intended to be a Z scale model of a 4- by 8-foot HO scale layout became a Z scale model ...

Hapgood Theatre Company closes its season opener, "The Odd Couple," this weekend at the Nick Rodriguez Communtiy Center theater, 213 F St.

In a universe a lot like this one, the subway clatters to a stop, the doors slide open and a disembodied voice intones, a oeStand clear of the closing doors.a Except the universe is one-eighty-seventh the size of ours, and no sprinting figure attempts to defy the resolve of rapidly narrowing doors.

Children, college students and a professional artist have come together to work on an art project on wheels.

The world's smallest working model train set has been unveiled a ' measuring just 1/8th of an inch by 1/4 of an inch.

Jerry Calabrese, CEO of Lionel Trains, in his corporate offices on Madison Ave. The toy company will open its first store, in Rockefeller Center, for the holiday season.

NVMR operates multi-level layout at old W & OD train station, which opens to public 10 times a year.

The ratings: Wonderful, Worthwhile, Whatever. This one is: Worthwhile Miniature Man-Made World Studio 527, 527 Julia St., 504.638-3057. Doug MacCash / The Times-Picayune Daniel Kempton rises over one of his miniature landscape models Back in the rear corner of Studio 527 you'll find adorable little clusters of houses, trees, and office buildings so ...

Delhiites, it seems, cana t have enough of the Delhi Metro. The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation on Thursday started selling models of the Metro train at its museuma s souvenir shop at the Patel Chowk station.

The Green Bay Press-Gazette talks with people from a variety of business disciplines each week in its Saturday Conversation feature.

I am working on the first module in a new N-scale model railroad layout.A In this urban scene, I am using florescent paints of various types under black light to simulate neon and other lighting in night scenes.

Through the pine trees, up a hill and past a pond, Avery Burger, 8, and her younger sister, Quinn, 5, cruised on a powerful model train.

Hugh Teaford, president of Memphis Society of Model Railroaders, stands in the basement of the Central Station.