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Christmas and trains go hand in hand, whether it’s a few cars chugging around the family tree or a basement layout complete with elaborate towns and scenery. Lucky for train enthusiasts of all ...
The hamlets live on in a toy train layout filling the Hockessin basement of Dennis Cannon, born on Christmas Eve 1949. "The puffs of smoke and the smell of the engines just evoke Christmas," he said.
The Christmas train layout of Paul Braden features several different scales of trains, houses and cars. “Myself, I guess I’ve had trains since I was 4-years-old,” said Braden.
The model railroad that runs under the Capitol Christmas tree each year since 1984 was the brainchild of then Gov. Vic Atiyeh. The original layout and many of the scale structures still used were ...
Each year, train lovers and model train enthusiasts who are members of the Arizona Big Train Operators (ABTO) welcome thousands to their Annual Trains in the Garden Christmas Open House and Tours.
"Everybody had Christmas trees and trains running underneath them," said the president of the Western Pennsylvania Model Railroad Museum.
The Christmas season often is when people opt to explore the model train display at the French Creek Valley Railroad Historical Society’s museum in Meadville. For many, Christmas and model ...
HOLTS SUMMIT - The ninth annual Christmas train layout opened to the public Thursday. Arthur Kristofik, owner of Americas Best Value Inn Hotel, begins setting up his trains in January.
The tradition will be celebrated at the Mid-Ohio Valley Model Railroad Club’s annual Christmas Open House from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Dec. 3 in the rear basement of NOE Office Equipment, 610 Green St ...
HAMPTON, Tenn. (WCYB) — The Christmas Train at the Doe River Gorge is on track to open in 2025. Nearly 4,000 feet of track have been laid, with more than 1,000 feet left to go.
The hope for the downtown setups will be a smaller scale museum, he said, with a few train layouts The club, which started in 1993, started with a small building on the grounds of a cement plant in ...
The Lake County Model Railroad Club has maintained a 1,300-square foot train layout board underneath a downtown Wauconda coffee shop, since 1972.