iHobby is coming: The 25th annual iHobby Expo, a trade show for the hobby industry, is slated for Oct. 22-25 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, I11., just outside Chicago. The show features model railroad manufacturers and vendors, as well as those in other hobbies such as radio control, plastic models, rockets, and die-cast metal toys. The expo is often a showplace for manufacturers to debut new hobby products. Model Railroader will have a full iHobby report on our Web site and in January's News & Products. For more information, go to www.ihobbyexpo.com. Modeler operates on a larger scale: United States Army officer and model railroader Leslie Parks had no idea his experience with small-scale trains would come in handy on the ground in Iraq. But when Parks was transferred to the Area of Operations that included the headquarters of Iraqi National Railways, his superiors assigned him to get it working. Parks, a Model Railroader reader, shared his experiences in an e-mail he sent to us. "In any sound prototype-based model railroad, you must have a purpose," Parks wrote. The Iraqi railroad was one of the largest employers in the area, but since its primary customer had been the former government, not much was moving on the rails.
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