By Derek Halsey for HD Media
HUNTINGTON — The Appalachian Model Train Society has hosted the Model Railroad Show here in the Tri-State for nearly seven decades. It returns to the Marshall Health Network Arena this weekend.
The 67th annual Model Railroad Show will take place at the arena’s convention center on Nov. 28-30, in downtown Huntington. The convention will be open from 5-8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, and noon-4:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets for the event are $5 with children 12 and under getting in free.
The show will feature an array of working model train sets on display plus tables full of vendors, hobby shops, railroad book collectors and sellers.
New and used model train equipment will also be for sale for those who want to create their own indoor train village.
Currently, the director of the 67th annual Model Railroad Show is Carl Miller.
Born in Chicago, Miller’s family moved to nearby Waverly, Ohio, when he was 10 years old where he fell in love with trains while riding on one to Cincinnati to see a Cincinnati Reds baseball game.
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