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Happy Holidays

Monday, December 21, 2009

Train Tuesdays Here’s a link to Norfolk Southern’s interactive holiday card. See Also: Why Kids Should Play with Model Trains Santa Trains While NS’s holiday card is nice, you have to really appreciate the railroads that run holiday trains. Canadian Pacific, BNSF, Kansas City Southern, and CSX ran holiday specials. Here’s a video of the [...]

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The World’s Greatest Hobby (or Why Kids Should Play with Model Trains)

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Model railroading is a wonderful American tradition that I fear is losing ground in today’s world of computers and video games. One key value of model railroading is that it is very educational, teaching design, construction, electronics, history, art, and transportation operations. Additionally, building and operating a model railroad is a lot of fun. I [...]

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