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Big grins spread across the faces of would-be railroad tycoons Ben Urban, 7, of Ingleside and John Grabowicz, 15, of Round Lake as the 40 cars of a model freight train whizzed by a few inches from ...
HAMBURG – With miniature replicas of a cornfield and a vintage drive-in movie theater, volunteers at the Reading Company Technical & Historical Society are expanding their HO gauge electric train ...
Love affairs with trains typically begin like this: A tyke watching in awe as a Lionel train set choo choos around a Christmas tree. Fast forward some number of decades, and you have John Campbell, ...
FORTVILLEWhen John Kitterman was looking for a workshop where he could house a business building model train layouts, the concrete building available for rent wasn\'t what he wanted.Nestled on a quiet ...
People who love model trains are on the right track if they visit Lake Metroparks Farmpark in Kirtland this weekend. That’s because Farmpark, located at 8800 Euclid Chardon Road, is hosting Railroads ...
Tom Galvin, background, shows his grandchildren the model railroad layout at the Metro East Model Railroad Club’s annual open house Saturday. A replica of the mid-20th century Glen Carbon water tower ...
JANESVILLE, Wis.—More than half of Mike Bubrick’s basement is filled with model railroading. There’s a staging yard with a mainline loop and more than a dozen tracks operated by a digital control with ...
Gordon Fee asked that I convey to “Historically Speaking” readers the history of model railroading in Oak Ridge as it pertains to the unique relationship that has formed between a club in Knoxville ...
VAN WERT — Model train enthusiasts will want to be in Van Wert on Saturday and Sunday as the Van Wert County Historical Society hosts the 21st annual Van Wert Railroad Heritage Weekend. The event will ...
When you enter the Ocala Model Railroaders Historic Preservation Society headquarters, you may think you hear the conductor's cry to board an early steam or modern diesel electric locomotive driven ...