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[Train 284]

Good ol' USA

[Anonymous]

Klaus;

I have been to Vienna and it is my second favourite city in the whole world, my wife and i just loved it. I couldnt really tell you why i like it so much but i do. Top favourite is Sydney and 3 rd favourite is Singapore, so its in pretty good company.


Rgds Ian

[chuckger]

Hi,
Im from Hamburg, Pa a little North of Reading.

chuckger

[Bucksco]

The quaint little hamlet of Fallsington Pennsylvania. William Penn worshipped here and George Washington slept here.

[Anonymous]

Hi, I am from the greater Washington, D.C. area.

mikadousrp

[Capt Bob Johnson]

Klaus,
Trying to think of something smarta--ed to say about the Gov of California helping you lay track or work on americanizing your railroad! It just ain't coming. anyhow, have fun; thats what a hobby is all about!

[hobbyfossi201]

Hi,
I´m from the heart of Europe, this means next to Austria´s capitol Vienna.
I´m modeling in Austrian but also American railways.
I still have no fixed outdoor railroad so I have to lay out my track on the patio....but time comes by and for late summer it is planned to lay out track on pressuretreated wood with pilots.
My rolling stock includes 4 engines (still all Austrian style, but the TenWheeler is already ordered) and appx. 10 coaches/freigt LGB and kitbashed.
I find myself more and more interested in American railways, so I´m already preparing my mind to sell all the local equipment and to step deeper into modelling American topics.
regards
klaus

[CandCRR]

I'm from Southern New Hampshire (the "Live Free or Die" state). About 1 acre mostly behind the house and fairly level. Just a suburb of Boston Mass and the home of the N.E. Patriots and the Boston Red Sox!

[underworld]

NW Ohio in a third floor apartment in an old gothic style building so no outdoor for me....at least for right now. Maybe I should make something portable???

underworld

[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

[ragnar]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Torby

Macomb Illinois USA[:o)]

One thing I have to say about American Football: "That's the sorriest excuse for a ball I've ever seen. It's not even round!"[:-,]

Yep! pointy at both ends and hurts like hell when it hits ya!!

[nalts]

QUOTE: Originally posted by OLD DAD

We're from the twin cities of Minneapolis & St. Paul here in the "Semi Great White North" of Minnesota; land of ten thousand frozen lakes.

May all your weeds be wild flowers......OLD DAD

Hey Old Dad... Great to "see" you around. Hope you had a great winter.

I live about an hour north of OD on the edges on the Twin Cities. Formally a big city St. Paul boy, now I'm a country boy with no space limitations! Who Hoo! We'll see what happens this summer, hopefully get some tracks laid down...

OT: Hey OD! Are you going to the upcoming club get together? I hope to make it. I'll have to see about my wife's work schedule. I hope we can, I'd love to talk shop with you again.

Later days!
Chris

[aljay]

In this order , Montreal Quebec, Elizabethtown NY , Toronto Ontario, Whitehorse, Churchill Falls Man, Toronto.Vancouver BC, Edmonton,and back to Toronto..

[markperr]

Michigan. North of Ann Arbor.

[Anonymous]

I'm a fifth generation Irish American who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After World War II my parents moved the family across the bridge to South Jersey where I grew up and still make my home.

Regards to all,

Bill C.
South Jersey

[Anonymous]

Hello Ian, I wuz talking about Womens' Netball, I know nuffing about Rugby like I said. And you might have more sheep, but ours are a better class of sheep.

Annie ;-)

[Bucksco]

Earth

[Anonymous]

I LIVE in lebanon , penna. I was born here and will died here , playing with my trains and i'm retired. Ben

[vsmith]

Tim ,

We havent had a pro football team since that jerkzilla Al Davis took the Raiders back to Oakland (good riddence) and the Lambs, I mean Rams, went to St Louis. The funny thing is that no one really misses them, outside of the foamer core fans. The Lakers( our world famous basketball team to all youz guys over the big water) are doing Sooo badly this year that they are openly being called the Slackers. Sad about Hockey though, even though the Kings stank like last weeks fish, it was the one sport I enjoyed watching. Personally I think even if there is resolution, the NHL is DOA next season.

I just keep fighting the urge to get cable so I can watch Australian Rules Football, which I dig! I keep telling myself, If I got cable, I'd never leave the house.[8D]

[cabbage]

Bulawayo, Crown Colony of Southern Rhodesia.

But I was going to be born in Napier New Zealand but my fathers company had other ideas.

regards

ralph

[TurboOne]

Today, Sunny San Diego, CA.

Same 4 seasons as Vic. Love that.

HO, O, G gauge trains. I have temp HO layout in garage, waiting to grow. Temp O layout on a board, and temp G layout on back patio, depending on rain. My backyard turns into a swamp when it rains.

And American Football is great, hometown of the San Diego Chargers are my team even when they are bad. Same with the Padres for baseball. Haven't had basketball team in town in years, and hockey we have only minor league. But its on strike and good riddance if they don't come back. Let the minor league take over.

Tim

[Tom The Brat]

Macomb Illinois USA[:o)]

One thing I have to say about American Football: "That's the sorriest excuse for a ball I've ever seen. It's not even round!"[:-,]

[Anonymous]

Annie are you living in a dream world, Australia has about 7.5 sheep to each person 7.5 X 20 million = 150 million wherers NZ has 10 sheep per person X 3 million = 30 million not so good huh. The wallabies are not afrraid of the All Blacks and you havent been world champions in Rugby for nearly a decade now, Australia was for amny years until we lost to Great Britain last year.

Bondi in the astern suburbs of Sydney has more kiwis than anywhere else except Auckland.

Rgds Ian

[Rastun]

NW Montana now, Born in the south, well ok the southern part of California. Moved around a bit being a military brat, landed in Montana for the majority of the growing up years. Had a sense of being and joined the military myself, in that journey I went from the east coast of the United States headed west until I reached the east coast of Africa. Started a new career and went from Montana to Oklahoma for 1 1/2 years then to south Texas for 2 years then back to Montana but in a different area. [:D]

Later,
Jack

[underworld]

NW Ohio here. [:)]

underworld

[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

[Anonymous]

Hello I'm from New Zealand and I'm of Yorkshire/Southern Irish descent. I like small locos, tight curves, steep grades and light laid rails. The heroic age of New Zealand's railway history and all that kind of thing. My favourite locomotive is the NZGR 'R' Class 0-6-4 Single Fairlie which is soooooooo beautiful.


Here in New Zealand we have millions of sheep and the most common landscape colour is green and the trees are friendly. We have this game called Rugby which I know almost nuffing about, but we're supposed to be good at it. I think it involves teams of huge wild men who fight in a field and the winners get to eat the ball. Most other Rugby teams in the world are scared of us so I'm told. I know a lot more about women's netball though and we are THE CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD!

Cheers,

Annie.

[Capt Bob Johnson]

Originally from Cape May County, NJ, USA (Southern Tip of NJ on map), and in '93 moved across Delaware Bay to Sussex County, DE.

You could classify that as mid atlantic seaboard of USA.

Have visited Florida, and would have had more fun from my $$$ by using a $!,000.00 bill as a cigarette lighter; if you don't play golf, fish, or go boating I don't see anything there I can't wait 4 months and see right here.

Went to Arizona, seen enough cactus and rattlesnakes to last the rest of my life!

Visited son in silicone valley, wasn't thrilled about that area either.

you want to see me?, let the mountain come to mohammed!

[Anonymous]

Before we had CoffeeShop threads, we did stuff like this.

[ondrek]

anyone from Vermont? I want to start my layout this summer and i am hoping to go to a few local garden layouts to get some pointers.

thanks

kevin

[Anonymous]

I am amazed and pleased to associate with such a great bunch of people from such a wide range of geographical spots. This is how it should be. I ve been out of it a bit, i have my no 3 grandchild visiting at the moment and she takes up a fair bit of time. She is ten and wants to go surfing all the time.

To Cap; Yes it is the AFL that I follow and I agree it is awesome "the big men fly high". For all those who do not know about this spectacle. 36 very fast men on the field at once, three umpires (it moves so fast) played on an oval pich about 180 yards long, four sticks at each end no crossbar. No padding, not even arms in their shirts for most and only 4 reserves. Although I live in Queensland i come from Sydney, so of course i follow the Sydney Swans. Coming third at the moment out of 16. I hope you didn't take offence about your problem with Mobey ***.none was intended.

Sorry about the other week John the Dockers were ok though.

And Phil i'm also sorry about the Crows, sad time at the moment wth the wooden spoon.

Regards to all. Ian; Kawana island Tropical Railway.