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| WORLD'S GREATEST HOBBY upcoming featured events: |
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Pasadena Model Railroad Club Fall 2009 Open House
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November 7th,8th,10th, 14th and 15th
Saturdays 1-5pm and 7-10pm
Sundays 1-5pm
Tuesday 7:30pm-10pm
Donation $3.00 for adults, $1.00 for children
The club has one of the largest layouts in the country and is over 5,000 sqft. in size .
The club is located at 5458 Alhambra Ave. Los Angeles, CA visit their web site www.prRRc.org for more information.
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| Patcong Model Railroad open house |
Saturday and Sunday November 14 & 15, 2009 from 10am to 4pm
The Patcong Valley Model Railroad is an HO scale layout operating 6-8 trains using full sound and DCC.
The open house has no admission fee and the club is located in
Richland, NJ. For directions and more information visit their web site:
www.patcongvalley.com
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| Planes and Trains exhibit at the Museum of Aviation |
Nov 21-25 & 27-29, 2009;
The Middle Georgia Model Railroad Club will be part of the 'Planes
and Trains Exhibit' at the Museum of Aviation at Robins Air Force Base,
located at Highway 247 and Russell Parkway. For more information visit:
www.museumofaviation.org/planestrains.php
Attractions to include multiple layouts and static train displays among 120 military aircraft.
Admission: Free Hours: 9-5 |
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| The Twin City Model Railroad Museum kicks off Night Trains on November 28th, 2009 |
| Visit the Museum's web site www.tcmrm.org for infomration about Night Trains and many of the museum's other special events. |
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| Mon Valley Model Railroad Club open house |
| The Mon Valley Railroad Club of Morgantown,
West Virginia will be holding an Open House on December 5 and 6, 2009
at 123 Pleasant Street, Morgantown, WV 26505. There
is no admission, but donations are welcome. The event is open from 10-4
on Saturday and 12-4 on Sunday. |
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| Great Train Extravaganza |
The Great Train Extravaganza will be
on Sunday,
December 6th 2009 at the New York State Convention Center, Albany, NY
This year will be the 34th year of the show! > This year
the event will be jointly hosted by Upstate Train Associates (UTA) and
the Hudson Berkshire Division (HBD) of the Northeast Region of the
NMRA. Admission Fees: $5 for adults, children
under 12 free when accompanied . For more information visit: http://www.gtealbany.com |
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LOOKING FOR MORE
MODEL RAILROAD
SHOWS and EVENTS?
Visit this link:
http://www.trains.com/trc/community/events/ |
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| News about the World's
Greatest Hobby Program: |
The World's Greatest Hobby Program
wants to help local model railroad
clubs promote their open houses and club events.
We can help you with public relations and advertising materials. We
need at least 8 weeks notice. If you would like our help, please send
an E-mail to info@greatesthobby.com and include the following
information:
- Name of club/event
- Date of event
- contact person
- contact person's e-mail address
- past history of event
- capacity of the club/event
- Admission and parking considerations
- What items you would like help doing
We have a limited capacity to help with these events, so we do need at
least 8 weeks notice and we can only assist a limited number of events
which we will do on a first come first served basis |
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We have some
exciting news for the World’s Greatest Hobby program. The program has received a
commitment of an additional 3 years of support from some of the
hobby’s most influential companies. The following
companies have agreed to sponsor the program for another three
years:
- Atlas
Model Railroad Co.
- Bachmann
Industries Inc.
- Caboose
Industries
- Digitrax
Inc.
- Kalmbach
Publishing Co.
- Kato
U.S.A.
- Wm.
K. Walthers Inc.
The
significant financial contribution each of these companies is making to
the program is a clear indication of the importance of the
program.
Another
important change for the long term viability of the program is that it
has become a non profit educational corporation. This will allow for
additional public relations benefits for the program when dealing with
the news media. This new non profit corporation’s board of
director’s is comprised of some of the most important
executives
in the model railroad industry and include: Thomas Haedrich -
Atlas Model Railroad, Hiroshi Kato - Kato USA, Bud Reece - Bachmann
Industries, Terry Thompson - Kalmbach Publishing and Phillip
Walthers - WM. K. Walthers Inc.
The
World’s Greatest Hobby Board of Directors has engaged
Competitive Intelligence Advertsing
Incorporated to provide administration and promotion assistance for the
program. Competitive
Intelligence Adverting Incorporated is well known in the industry as a
successful marketing and promotion company.
They managed the very successful
World’s Greatest Hobby on Tour shows since 2004. They will continue to use
their expertise in marketing and public relations to take the program
to another level. Their
President, Dave Swanson, will serve as executive director for the
World’s Greatest Hobby program.
Because
of these changes there is new contact information for the program. The
Website address will remain the same www.greatesthobby.com
and it will be updated over the next few months. The new mailing
address is World’s Greatest Hobby - PO Box 11, Elmhurst,
IL
60126.
The new e-mail address for the administration of the
World’s Greatest Hobby is info@greatesthobby.com.
The new phone number is 630-592-1894 and the new FAX number is
630-214-4113
Please send
any updates for the club, model railroad, or hobby shop directory to
info@greatesthobby.com.
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Model Trains in
the news:
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Charleston Post Courier - Ken Burger - Sep 26, 2009
Richard Ketcham uses a radio control to operate a model train along tracks inside the building where the Charleston Area Model Railroad ...
Cape Coral Daily Breeze - Sep 24, 2009
The Gulf Coast Model Railroad at Shell Point Retirement Community will re-open Friday Oct. 2, after a summer hiatus to complete maintenance and upgrades to ...
Nestled beneath the impressive architecture along Balboa Park's famous El Prado sits a world-class model railroad museum promising to ...
If it's model railroad-related,
it's here. If you have kids and you've never been to our show, you
really ought to give it a try. Kids and adults alike love ...
“G” scale models, Nichols said, are the largest of the model railroads. The “G” comes from “garden railroading,” and are popular with model rail enthusiasts ...
To prove that model railroading isn't just for kids, LLRC's 20 members, all of whom belong to the National Model Railroad Association, have invited other ...
Sprawled over 20 feet by 39 feet in the main display space of the former railroad boarding house is the Belen Model Railroad Club's annual exhibit. ...
Dothan Eagle - Jay Hare - Sep 16, 2009
Train enthusiasts like Summers will likely be out at this weekend's Wiregrass Model Railroad Show and Sale. It's a hobby that combines painting, ...
Dothan Eagle - Sep 9, 2009
The 19th annual Wiregrass Model Railroad Show and Sale will be held Saturday, Sept. 19, from 9 am to 5 pm and Sunday, Sept. 20, from 10 am to 4 pm in Dothan ...
Amesbury News - Sep 1, 2009
“Model railroading is a fantastic hobby,” says Tim Garner, the volunteer public relations director of the Expo, and a model train enthusiast for over 40 ...
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