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Posted by route_rock on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:10 PM
Quad Cities but I have been everywhere.Where I hang my hat is home lol

Yes we are on time but this is yesterdays train

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Posted by Awesome! on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:17 PM

 videomaker wrote:
  Central,Tx. About 15miles from BNSF and 5min from UP(when they run on the Katy) 

How far are you from Austin, TX?

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Posted by swoodnj on Monday, August 25, 2008 5:32 PM
Great Meadows NJ, western part of NJ close to PA Pocono region.
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Posted by fafnir242 on Saturday, August 23, 2008 11:43 PM
I'm that disheveled-looking hobo you see hanging around Track 2 in Newark Penn Station.lol
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Posted by steemtrayn on Saturday, August 23, 2008 11:56 AM
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Posted by Awesome! on Saturday, August 23, 2008 10:23 AM
Austin, TX; where the UP only track pass only 20 trains a day or less. Really sucks! Blindfold [X-)]
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Posted by eolafan on Friday, August 22, 2008 5:19 PM
Aurora, IL and before that Chalfont, PA and before that Severna Park, MD and before that Laurel, MD and before that Naperville, IL and before that Wausau, WI and before that Tuckahoe, NY and before that Pleasantville, NY and before that Yonkers, NY and originally from Mt. Vernon, NY.  Whew, that took alot of typing.
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Posted by Phoebe Vet on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:38 PM
 daveklepper wrote:

NYC Manhattan     Born 1932  -  1949

Cambridge, MA      1949 - 1954

Fort Bragg, NC       1954 - 1956

Boston, Watertown, MA    1956-1957

Cambridge, MA      1957 - 1967

Westmont, Downers Grove, IL   1967 - 1970

NYC Manhattan  (office in White Plains)     1970-1996

Jerusalem, Israel        1996 ---------------------------------------------------------

Places frequented very very often:

East Haven and Branford, CT, Detroit, MI, Fayetteville, NC, Charlottesville, VA, Winter Park and Lakeland, FL, Chicago, Toronto, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francisco

Dave:

Next time someone asks you should reply "I'm not sure ... let me check and get back to you".

Dave

Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow

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Posted by JasonH on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 2:34 PM

lafayette, IN for now, but hoping to move back to Wauseon, OH very soon

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Posted by milepost426 on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:01 PM
In Elkhart, Indiana 2 miles north of the n&s yard. Great railfan area along the highway there.
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Posted by squeeze on Friday, April 25, 2008 2:46 PM
5 miles North of Connellsville, Pa. yard. (CSX) 1/2 mile from Southwest RR
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Posted by Ster1 on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 9:24 AM

Hello From Wooster, Ohio

CSX 2507 East on 2 Slow-App-Slow Sterling and Restricting at the top of the Wye entering Ster1 Block Q354 is OUT!
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Posted by Papadiesel on Friday, April 18, 2008 10:17 PM

Sterling Heights, Michigan Just north east of Detroit

Thanks for asking.

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Posted by videomaker on Friday, April 18, 2008 9:42 PM
  Central,Tx. About 15miles from BNSF and 5min from UP(when they run on the Katy) 
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Posted by sovablunt on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 8:25 PM
 Originally the San Francisco Bay Area, now Newton, KS by way of Washington, DC, Norfolk and Virginia Beach, VA.
A Dutchman was explaining the red, white, and blue Netherlands flag to an American. "Our flag is symbolic of our taxes. We get red when we talk about them, white when we get our tax bills, and blue after we pay them." The American nodded. "It's the same in the USA only we see stars too!"-courtesy of Herman de Zwaan
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:23 AM

I'm in the 2nd largest rail hub in the country, Kansas City!! Great train action here!

SteveCool [8D] 

 

 

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Posted by daveklepper on Thursday, April 10, 2008 2:13 PM

NYC Manhattan     Born 1932  -  1949

Cambridge, MA      1949 - 1954

Fort Bragg, NC       1954 - 1956

Boston, Watertown, MA    1956-1957

Cambridge, MA      1957 - 1967

Westmont, Downers Grove, IL   1967 - 1970

NYC Manhattan  (office in White Plains)     1970-1996

Jerusalem, Israel        1996 ---------------------------------------------------------

Places frequented very very often:

East Haven and Branford, CT, Detroit, MI, Fayetteville, NC, Charlottesville, VA, Winter Park and Lakeland, FL, Chicago, Toronto, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francisco

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Posted by Engineer wanna be on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 10:36 PM
I live in Trempealeau Wi. Right along the Bnsf mainline
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Posted by Flint Hills Tex on Wednesday, April 2, 2008 8:07 AM

Just another message from Dinkelsbühl, Germany, located on the Imperial City Branch. The local railroad museum ran a steam special over Easter, and since we had a lot of snow on the ground, it was quite a show. The link below is a short video of a run-by! Enjoy!

http://www.naturschutztagebuch.de/tagebuch11.html#230308eisenbahn

 

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Posted by SD60M on Monday, March 31, 2008 10:00 PM

Memphis,TN i live about 1 mile from NS and about 4 from BNSF's Tennessee yard at the beginning of the Birmingham Sub. If you go downtown you will see BNSF, CSX, NS, UP, CN, and Amtraks City of New Orleans. Also R.J. Corman was given BNSF's industry jobs so they switch cars right by my work a nice treat to see GP7's and 9's still running around! Especially when your on break at work!

Long Live The Burlington Northern!
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Posted by passengerfan on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 11:06 PM
Stockton Ca and its six RRs UP, BNSF,ST&E,Amtrak,ACE and PofS. And how many citys besides Stockton have two active Amtrak stations and a third station that still stands although no tracks pass it.
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Posted by BB-61 on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:04 PM
Yuma, AZ along the old SP Sunset Route.
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Posted by ralphie on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:32 AM
Hey I'm about 5000 feet from the UP Alhambra  subdivision
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Posted by killer dragonoz on Monday, March 24, 2008 9:16 PM

Mocksville,North Carolina 30min from NS Linwood Yard

NS is the Best
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Posted by CaptainChuck on Monday, March 24, 2008 1:39 AM

Orono Maine, 1 mile from the Pan Am Railways main line to Mattawamkeag and probably 20 minutes from the MM&A At Northern Maine Junction. My home however is in Norway Maine, 2 miles from the St. Lawrence & Atlantic railroad. If I'm lucky I can see 6 trains in one day but I have to hunt for them mostly because I live in the dark ages of Form D's... However me and the pops have managed to venture outside our nice corner of no where to real railroads so I've had my fill of mainline action. =)
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Posted by Boomer Red on Sunday, March 23, 2008 1:08 PM
Petitcodiac New Brunswick, about 30 minutes west of Moncton on the CN line to Saint John.Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by MStLfan on Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:02 AM

Rotterdam, the Netherlands. I have a good view of the Rotterdam - Dordrecht 4 track mainline in leafless season (can't call it winter in these globally warmed days and calling it an extended autumn makes me shiver from all the rain). Plenty of passenger trains, too numerous to mention here. Freigth traffic is good too, for as long as it lasts (more and more trains go via the new Betuweroute to Germany). There are paths in the timetable for 2 freight trains an hour in each direction going to or coming from the largest harbor after some Asian ones. Mostly containers, 6 loaded coal trains, some mixed freigth, unit grain trains, steel and increasingly tankcars. What actually moves at what times seems te be mostly on a first come first served basis, not to mention the influence of troubles at the borderstations or track problems.

greetings,

Marc Immeker

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Posted by BNSF_GP60M on Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:46 AM
Hanford, Ca.  Half a mile from San Joaquin Valley Railroad's Huron line and 500 ft from BNSF's Bakersfield Sub. My advatar pic was taken from my front yard.Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by THayman on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 2:15 PM
 RicHamilton wrote:
 THayman wrote:
 THayman wrote:

Johnstown, Ontario....

right at MP 110 on CN's Kingston Subdivision (VIA's Quebec City- Windsor Corridor) 

..... in Antigonish Nova Scotia....not great railfanning,

Hello to Antigonowhere from Berwick in the balmy Annapolis Valley.  At least you have trains to watch....

true...I do feel fortunate to at least have the occasional one....still, compared to living next to the country's busiest corridor, well, it's just a bit of a shock (a sort of withdrawal perhaps?) 

-Tim

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