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Train project moves middle-schoolers Baltimore Sun
Pupils discover a creative outlet as they design, create holiday display of toy engines Taylor Rexroth placed an engine on a track, and Mark Abbey worked the hand controller to take the train on a test run.
SANTA TRAIN TRADITION The Columbus Dispatch
NELSONVILLE, Ohio — It doesn’t look like the Polar Express, but the Santa Train still makes a big impression when it rolls into the station.
Toy train to chug around hilly Mizoram rediff.com
The proposed toy train, with two coaches, will chug around the hilly terrain to lure more tourists coming to the state.
Chronicling war history Deccan Herald
The warship museum at Karwar is a trip down the interesting history of warships, writes M G Balakrishna. If the idea of warships and the history surrounding them have often intrigued you, then the warship museum at Karwar could just be the place for you.
Lionel American Heritage
Around 1900, when electrified toy trains were in their infancy, a battery-powered railroad car appeared in the show window of Robert Ingersoll’s novelty store on Cortlandt Street in downtown Manhattan. It wasn’t intended as a toy.
Specialty stores are a rare gift Akron Beacon Journal
By Kerry Clawson Holiday shoppers don't have to travel too far to find private retailers clustered in old-fashioned hometown or villagelike settings. You could get just about all of your holiday shopping done in Akron-area specialty shops, avoiding big box stores and finding uniquely wonderful gifts at the same time.
Quirky items make great stocking stuffers Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Empty stockings? Need last-minute items for adults, kids or pets? Then check out these ideas from local shop owners. The Alaska Rag Co. has a wide selection of stocking stuffers — all handmade locally.
A holiday gift for every type of traveler Seattle Times
Just because holiday travel sometimes can be a nightmare of delays and crowds doesn't mean that giving travel gifts has to be scary. There are so many
Christmas Memories: Girl's white roller skates: A gift of unselfish love The Derrick
(Editor's note: Here is the third installment of our Christmas Memories series. Stories and photographs can be submitted by mail to Christmas Memories, The Derrick/The News-Herald, P.O. Box 928, Oil City, 16301; or by e-mail to newsroom@usachoice.net.)
Area man aims to restore train using only 19th century tools Lodi News-Sentinel
Stathi Pappas received his first toy train set when he was three years old. By the time he was 10, he had a sit-on-top, one-eighth scale steam engine that he would ride around his north Stockton house.
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