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The Railroad Hobby Show is a fund-raiser for the nonprofit Amherst Railway Society. Since 1991, the society has donated more than $800,000 raised through the show to various railroad museums, historical societies, nonprofit groups and organizations dedicated to preserving railroad history and restoring railroad equipment and structures, as well ...
A piece of the wreckage of Air New Zealand Flight 901, which crashed in Antarctica in 1979, despite being equipped with a GPWS.All 257 people on the plane died. Beginning in the early 1970s, a number of studies looked at the occurrence of CFIT accidents, where a properly functioning airplane under the control of a fully qualified and certificated crew is flown into terrain (or water or ...
The National Train Show (or NTS) is held as part of the annual National Convention of the National Model Railroad Association.Held in a different city each year, it consists of railfan and model railroading products, and model train layouts created by clubs.
Pages in category "Model railway shows and exhibitions" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
As the railroad has evolved from block stations and control towers to a centralized dispatching system, they have also moved to more advanced inspection tools. The technologies in use today vary from a simplistic paddle and switch to infrared thermography, laser scanning, and even ultrasonic audio analysis. These devices are used to inspect ...
California State Railroad Museum (March 25, 1990) Roaring Camp & Big Trees Railroad (April 1, 1990) Moffat Tunnel (April 8, 1990) Ward Kimball (April 15, 1990) Wm. K. Walthers (April 22, 1990) Santa Fe Piggyback (April 29, 1990) Lionel Trains (May 6, 1990) Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania (May 13, 1990) Minnesota Commercial Railroad (May 20, 1990)
Boeing's biggest supplier of aircraft components said Friday that it will temporarily furlough 700 workers later this month, warning that it would have to resort to layoffs if a strike by Boeing ...
The term HOn30 (and sometimes HOn2½) is generally used when modelling American prototypes while H0e is used for European prototypes. In Britain, the term OO9 is used. [1] All these terms refer to models of narrow-gauge railways built to the world's most popular model railway scale of HO (1:87) but using a track gauge of 9 mm (0.354 in)—the gauge used for N scale models of standard-gauge ...