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In what has become an annual event, Loose Ties, a model railroading club from the Catawissa area, greeted model train enthusiasts to the show which featured trains from the newest and smallest "Z" scale to the "Inch" scale trains capable of carrying an adult. Jeff Johnstonbaugh, President of Loose Ties, isn't positive, but has a theory about the Christmas/toy train connection."I believe that after the depression, Lionel trains really started pushing their product as a Christmas toy," he said. "Back then, it was rather expensive and parents of children that wanted trains couldn't afford them as an everyday toy."According to an online article in the Detroit News, in 1937 Lionel started selling what became its most popular steam locomotive, the Hudson. It sold for a whopping $75, the price of a refrigerator back then.
The first modular home to cross the ocean from Portland to Chebeague Island will travel in four sections on a barge, then be set on a foundation the day it arrives.
[ClickPress, Sun Dec 03 2006] Canbury Homes has announced the first modular home construction project on Chebeague Island will travel across the ocean on a journey that will be fascinating to see, and challenging to accomplish.
"Due to tidal concerns it will take two full days to transport the four sections to the Island by barge from Portland. On the third day the crane and crew will be brought over, and the four sections will be set on the foundation that day," explained Frank Corbett director of sales and marketing for Canbury Homes, a leading builder of modular homes in southern Maine.
Bids are being solicited for a 4-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath modular home constructed by students at the Middle Bucks Institute of Technology in Jamison. A minimum bid for this year's 2,240-square-foot home is $69,875.00. The home includes a kitchen, dining room, living room, family room and laundry room. The school's construction carpentry class supervised the building project. To see the home, visit the school's Web site at www.mbit.org and click on Student Professional Projects - Student Built House! Formal bids must be received in the MBIT main office no later than 11 a.m. Dec. 14 and will be opened at 11:30 p.m. that day. For more information and to arrange an appointment to see the house, contact Robert Vining, business manager, at 215-343-2480.
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