Where is everyone from?

[wm3798]

I grew up in Bawlmer, Murlin, but now I'm on the Easun Shore.  The layout's in the attic, no basements here, either, and we're about as East as you can get!  (without getting the feet wet...)

Lee 

[Texas Zepher]

I am FROM:

1. born & early childhood in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado.
    Grandparents & Uncle had farms on the Santa Fe mainline in Lamar & Granada respectivley
2. childhood in Wichita Kansas (RI, MP, AT&SF, Frisco)
3. 1 year of college  in Greenville South Carolina (no time to look at trains)
4. College rowing crew for short times I was from Austin Texas & Philadelphia PA
5. First job St. Louis Missouri - 4 years. (wow, it seemed like every railroad imaginable except Santa Fe)
6. Then my big break I got to move back to Colorado and that is where I AM not FROM.

[NS SD70M-2]

I'm from Eastern Michigan. There is a few of us from Michigan on here. 4884Bigboy is from Western Mi. and Engineer Joey is belive is from Southern Michigan

                 I'm from michigan too!

                          Dearborn ,Mi

[IRONHORSE77]

Fort Worth, Tx. via Atchison, Ks. Topeka, Ks. and Houston, Tx.

Chuck

[UnionPacific3985]

North Little Rock, AR but I go to school in Fayetteville which is about 200 miles from NLR. It's great to be home for the summer so I can work on my layout.

[GAPPLEG]

Love to respond to some people, lived all over at times. Stationed at Vint Hill Farms in Warreton VA. back in the 60's.  Anyway, Born in Ill. Lived most of my life in El Paso Texas. Have lived in Erie PA. for 38 years. I work at the GE locomotive plant. I model the SP because of my life in West Texas.

[Teditor]

Corny gay topic!  Where you from? Blah blah blah  Wanna date them or something!

How can you be so hard on yourself dude...

Love the names, says it all, I should change from Teditor to Terdinator

"I come from the land down under!" Hey! that would make a good song title!

 

[myred02]

I live in Hopkinsville, KY on the CSX Henderson Subdivision. There are lots of places to watch trains, including two passing sidings (one to the north of town and another to the south) and an old L&N station in the middle of downtown that is now the home of the local Arts Council. In fact, my avatar pic was taken at the passing siding north of town, known as the Latham Siding.

-Brandon

[dehusman]

a test

[Annonymous]

Another Norwegian here, Bjørkelangen is about 55km / 34 miles east from Oslo. I met another train friend (steinjr) on this forum, and he lives only 28km / 18 miles away. That's rather weird, two Norwegian "neighbours" getting together on a US forum..!

Anyway, this forum is a great inspiration, even though we're modelling two totally different prototypes (US diesel era vs Norwegian steam era).

 

[Anonymous]

Olathe, KS.  Suburb of Kansas City.   BNSF, UP and KCS all cross here.  Great for watching TRAINS!!!  Get to see all types of locos and rolling stock! 

[jblackwelljr]

Pottsville, PA...not the most exciting place on the map, but we do have Yuengling.

[AggroJones]

  I'm from the western region of Antartica.

Al you're only the second person I've ever seen with a negative post count.

[DavidH]

Also the site of the 2010 Olympics, but beautiful North Vancouver.  Eat your heart out Burnaby . . .  Modeling SRY (former BD Hydro Rail) in N.

 

David

[ssgauge]

Idaho.

[ChessieFan13]

West Virginia  

[Medina1128]

Clinton, MO - Home of the Clinton-Golden Valley RR... a fictitious short line pike for MoPac, with service from the Missouri/Northern Arkansas and the Frisco lines.. MOPAC Rules!!!!!!!!

[frisco kid]

Springfield, Missouri. Deep in the heart of Frisco country!!! BNSF who???????????????

[CPRail modeler]

here is a clue...the site of the 2010 Olympics.

i think...

anyways, my rails currently carry CP Rail equipment, yet seeing the same logo going around gets quite boring so i'm looking for other stuff. there are (as far as i know) three hobby shops within one hours drive and another one in Surrey that i want to check out.

[woodlandtoots]

I live in Collinsville, Illinois, just across the line from St. Louis, Missouri and most of time considered to be part of the Greater St. Louis Metro Area called "Metro East St. Louis" although I don't understand why those here in Illinois want to be considered part of "St. Louis". I work in St. Louis, but I live in Illinois and I'm proud to be from Illinois. (But I don't hold a grudge against St. Louis, I just want to be recognized for being from Illinois.)

Woodlandtoots 

 

[yougottawanta]

Poteet,I have always been interested in history, you almost have to living where I have grown up. The county where I was raised George Washington owned property, Mosbys Rangers gave the Union Railroad and the Union Calvary fits (Mosbys Confederacy), I drove through a gap in the mountains that was discovered by Daniel Boone,have found mini balls from the civil war era and near a creek I found many arrow heads of varouis sizes and shapes. Not to mention being near five major battle fields of the civil war era,homes to the first Presidents of the US of A...I could go on and on about the history. But I still Love trains.

[Robby P.]

From good ole NC, but moved to PA almost a year ago.  About 30 miles south of Pittsburgh.  Also I am about 5 minutes from the Monongalia river which it's one of the few rivers that flow north.  One side of the river, the tracks carry CSX and the other is Norfolk Southern.   So I have a good pick of what I want to view......

[Anonymous]

Born in Hutchinson Ks Living in Houston Tx for the 2nd time.

[grumpy61]

Evansville, Indiana.  HO scale of L&N and C&EI in basement.

[faraway]

I'm in Sindelfingen/Germany.

The layout shares(actually dominates) a room with my home office. It's great to do some switching during boring telephone conferences;-)

[bogp40]

Weymouth, Ma and is just south of Boston.

[outdoorsfellar]

Central Ohio here.... Newark area.

[don7]

Hi, live in NW British Columbia near the tracks of the Grand Trunk Pacific - Now the CN. Layout is HO.

I am near Prince Rupert. So much early history here, what with the founder of the Railroad being one of the ill fated passengers on the Titanic.

[R. T. POTEET]

I am in the middle of no where (and like it like that) in a place west of Warrenton Va. Which is approximately 2 hours west of washington depending on traffic 1 1/2 hours in light traffic. I am very lucky in that there is a great LHS in warrenton. The owner (Tony) has actually hired some model railroaders who know the hobby. He also automatically discounts everything 10% plus you can sign up for a hobby card which gives another 5% off. And it is only about ten minutes from my house. And its nice they know most of their customers by name.     

You are not in the middle of nowhere; you are west of the middle of nowhere.  Actually, you live in an area that is rich in both Frontier America history as well as American Civil War history.  If I had grown up or now lived there I would probably long ago have abandoned any interest in model railroading and turned myself over to historical exploration.

I live in a MAJOR metropolitan area but we do not really have a plethora of hobby shops in this area.  Several, however, are outstanding and two of these are exclusively trains which makes it very nice.  We have bad summers - it is headed for 105º today - when everyone hibernates indoors - we are, incidently, the swimming pool capital of the nation - but we wear short-sleeved shirts in February and that makes this an area given over to outdoor activities in the late-fall, winter, and early-spring.  One would expect that, considering the population,  we would have more model railroading in this area.  I have seen the volume pick up since the Air Force transfered me here almost thirty four years ago; the population has tripled in that time and, perhaps, the number of modelers may have quadrupled but we are still far from being a virtual hotbed of model railroading activity.