> Dear friends,I am tasked with putting together a
> show with model trains for the upcoming Holiday
> Season - Christmas and New Year's.

As Laurel mentioned, this is exactly what was done at
Pittsburgh's original Buhl Planetarium and Institute
of Popular Science from 1954 to 1991. It started as
the Christmastown Railroad in 1954, but its popularity
grew so rapidly that Buhl soon started scheduling the
display for four months a year: November through
February. In fact, it came to the point where the
revenues derived from this one seasonal exhibit
pretty-much paid for the operation of Buhl Planetarium
for the rest of the year!

The exhibit resumed display in The Carnegie Science
Center as a nearly year-round exhibit in 1992. I
believe they close the exhibit twice a year [each time
for about a month-or-so] for exhibit maintenance.

You can read the entire history of Buhl Planetarium's
Great Miniature Railroad and Village, including links
to lots of photographs, at this link:

< http://buhlplanetarium3.tripod.com/MiniRR.htm > 

gaw

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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 16:02:37 -0400 
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Dear friends,I am tasked with putting together a show
with model trains for the upcoming Holiday Season -
Christmas and New Year's.  I would like to know if
there are any model train buffs out there that can
direct me to a nice collection/s that we can set up in
our exhibition space - we have about 4,000 sq. feet
that we can fill with various train setups.  Time
frame to display would run November 11 or 18th, 2006
through January 7, 2007. Any guidance you can provide
will be of great help!  OOlivia S.
AnastasiadisSupervisory Museum CuratorNixon
Presidential Materials Staff (NLNS)National Archives
and Records Administration18001 Yorba Linda Blvd.Yorba
Linda, CA  92886(714) 364-1184

gaw

Glenn A. Walsh
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NEWS - Astronomy, Space, Science:
< http://buhlplanetarium.tripod.com/#news >
Author of History Web Sites on the Internet --
* Buhl Planetarium, Pittsburgh: 
  < http://www.planetarium.cc > 
* Adler Planetarium, Chicago: 
  < http://adlerplanetarium.tripod.com >
* Astronomer & Optician John A. Brashear: 
  < http://johnbrashear.tripod.com > 
* Andrew Carnegie & Carnegie Libraries: 
  < http://www.andrewcarnegie.cc > 
* Duquesne Incline cable-car railway, Pittsburgh: 
  < http://www.incline.cc >

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