Celebrating Queensland’s proud rail history
Train enthusiasts from around south-east Queensland gathered in Grandchester yesterday for the 145th anniversary of the first railway journey in Queensland’s history.
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Train Day event a stop in Haddon Heights’ history
Train Day event a stop in Haddon Heights’ history
To this day, a history on the Haddon Heights’ website describes this town as “a typical turn of the 20th century railroad suburb.”
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Today in History
Today in History
Today is Saturday, March 20, the 79th day of 2010. There are 286 days left in the year. Spring arrives at 1:32 p.m. Eastern time.
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A Brief History Of American Model Trains
In order to tell the history of American Model Trains, it is necessary to tell the history of the S scale. This is the scale that is sold by the company today. They have staked their reputation on being able to create model trains in a sector, which is all but forgotten by too large [...]
A Look Into The History Of The Lionel Model Train
A look into the history of the Lionel Model Train is fascinating. Lionel trains got their start in 1900 when Joshua Lionel Cowen created his first toy train, the Electric Express. Joshua was already a successful inventor at the time. He created the toy train as a nod to his childhood growing up around the [...]
A History of the Cold War
Russia and the West had harboured mutual suspicions of one another since before the Bolshevik revolution. Russia had aggressively sought territory from European states during the long demise of the Ottoman Empire. In the mid-twentieth century the anti-Russian role that in the past been had played by Britain, France and Austria was now adopted by [...]
A Potted History of the System of Reiki
Viewpoints about the system of Reiki and its past are numerous. On our new website we have many pieces about the history of Reiki and its teachers as well as modern teachers and their teachings. But let’s look at a potted version of what has happened to the system since its beginnings in the early [...]