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It's time to chug on into town for the Glen Rock Hose and Ladder Company's 21st annual model train display.

Tired from shopping? Here are five ideas for ways to wind down in Manitowoc County this weekend.

Tony Johnson's fascination with trains started with "chugga-chugga choo-choo" and a wind-up toy train his mother gave him when he was 4 years old.

After working for a month as a volunteer setting up more than 250 feet of toy train tracks, placing tiny trees and arranging people into scenes of times gone by, John Lange got his reward Saturday.

"Old Kris," N.C. Wyeth's iconic 1925 oil painting, will be part of this year's "Share the Wonder" exhibition at the Farnsworth Art Museum's Wyeth Center in Rockland.

The signs are up in Devou Park for the 18th Annual Holiday Toy Train at Behringer-Crawford Museum.

Don Roder found his fountain of youth while playing with a model train set as a small boy in the 1930's. "I enjoy it.

Thanksgiving is a week away, but holiday train displays already are arriving in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.

At holiday time, trains whiz through Richard Kloewer's yard, past the lighted evergreen trees, dolls, teddy bears, even a miniature Harley Davidson display.

Toys from as far back as the turn of the last century will go into an auction in Chippenham next week.

EAST LANSING - Arriving at the Michigan State University Pavilion on Sunday, Nov.

There's something about trains -- the rhythmic gears, initial roar or distant howl -- that transports Rod Sadler back to another time.

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 ...