Formerly from the Bronx but for the past 18 years in Putnam County, NY about 45 - 50 miles north of NYC.
Mike
Wow! I really love the descriptions of your areas. What a varied bunch we are. Seems like the train shops are more plentiful in the east and middle states. My closest is in Napa, Ca. about eighty miles.
We DO have a train. It is called the "Skunk Train" (Really, that is the name!) It is an old loging line that runs from Willits to Ft. Bragg (The California one,) over a coastel range. It is all redwood country and makes a beautiful day trip. Yhere is small station at the crest where the trains from each side meet, exchange passengers and each go back to the original starting point.
My town, Ukiah is about 125 miles north of 'Frisco. We have a rail line running through, and a fine old station just sitting there. No current trains, but a lot of hopeful talk about a commuter service. Yhe rail line is owned by the North Western Pacific RR. I hope, I hope, I hope to ride that line someday!!!
Boonter wrote: We DO have a train. It is called the "Skunk Train" (Really, that is the name!) It is an old loging line that runs from Willits to Ft. Bragg (The California one,) over a coastel range. It is all redwood country and makes a beautiful day trip. Yhere is small station at the crest where the trains from each side meet, exchange passengers and each go back to the original starting point.
Just like CA. Trying to copy the great state of NC. Everyone knows that Ft. Bragg is in NC.
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
ChiefEagles wrote:Lets see. In reality, Rolesville NC. Second oldest town in Wake Co. Raleigh was laid out as the State Capital by the "powers to be". Rolesville was incorporated shortly after. We are the smallest town in Wake County but the fastest growing. Our boundries are Wake Forest to the west and Raleigh to the south. Now forum wise, it is Roseyville. The great leader of the South. Where grits and sweet ice tea are required. If you are a Yankee, be careful, you might get ridden out of town on a rail after being dipped in tar and rolled in feathers. This is the treatment for all carpetbaggers. If you are from Ohio, you already have two strikes against you.
The preceeding comment was spoken by the Mayor of a big swamp.
Blueberryhill RR wrote:Blueberryhill ( elev. 937 ft. ).....is located in beautiful Ohio. Just 93 miles east of the Famous Roger's Corners. ( elev. 936 ft. ). There is no finer area in the world. " Best location in the Nation ", as spoken by many important people. Ask Buckeye....
Roger's Corners, O-H-I-O (Elev. 936 ft.).....
just 10 miles east of THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY and one the 100 BEST PLACES to LIVE according to Money Magazine in 2007.
And just because you can't find it on a map, doesn't mean it doesn't exsist.
Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR
TCA 09-64284
Hi Boonter,
I sent you a PM yesterday...I suspected from your handle that you might live in or near Booneville - proud home of the Anderson Valley Brewing Company and the environs of the Booneville Beer, a cross between a bear and a deer.
So now I see you're really not too far away in Ukiah! What a great place. When I has in high school, many many years ago, I travelled on a school bus to Ukiah to march and play a baritone in the Ukiah Band Review Parade. I've made a few visits and pass-throughs over the years, and I still enjoy the small downtown. On one such visit, I had the grand opportunity to visit a couple with property that was adjacent to the NWP line near the Masonite plant. I spent the entire evening watching local switching moves - That was probably 25 or 30 years ago. Unfortunately, I don't think the NWP rail line has much future. Although the right-of-way has not been abandoned, so far as I know, the rails have been severed in many places - especially to the south of Ukiah.
I've ridden the Skunk enough times to have been pulled by steam, Alco diesel engines, and even the railroad's name-sake, an early 1900's bus fitted with railroad wheels. My first trip was from Ft. Bragg to Willits behind steam. At Willits there was an interchange with NWP, and I remember there being a Budd RDC on the NWP tracks to meet connecting passengers waiting to go south. My entire trip back was aboard the Skunk bus/car.
I live to the east of you in Chico, the northern terminus of what was once the Sacramento Northen Railroad, but still the proud home of the Sierra Nevada Brewery. My line through town was the Southern Pacific, parent company of the NWP. Now its turned UP yellow, as so many others have, but an occassional old locomotive in "fallen flag" livery will pass through town...haven't seen a caboose in years, though.
chicochip
"...Now forum wise, it is Roseyville. The great leader of the South..."
Roseyville? Leader? Chief, bit wrong on that one. The capital of the TRUE South is ol' Savannah, GAWGIA.
Chief, do you need to brush up on your history? North Carolina was the last state to seceed and the strongest opposer of it.....
"Lionel trains are the standard of the world" - Jousha Lionel Cowen
tiger wrote: Live in Northern Michigan, The nearest hobby shop is 2 hours away.
Live in Northern Michigan, The nearest hobby shop is 2 hours away.
Tiger.............Are you a Yuper?
I'm located in the northeast Georgia mountains, about two hours N.E. of Atlanta. Many years ago there was a mountain short line here called the Tallulah Falls Railroad. Its gone now, but the old Disney movie The Great Locomotive Chase was filmed here on the Tallulah Falls Railroad. Just up the road in North Carolina is the Great Smokey Mountain Railroad (scenic tourist rides) which was once part of Southern Railway's Murphy N.C. Branch.
Wayne, NJ. About 30 minutes to 2 hours from New York City depending on traffic. Blessed with about 4 hobby shops all within 25 miles.
Near the ole B&M Hillsboro branch(still active!!), a lil west of Nashua, NH.
I live in Dearborn, Michigan.
Home of Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum. The Village has operating steam and diesel engines and I can hear the whistles blow from my home. There is a roundhouse with engines and cars under restoration that the public can view on an elevated walkway. In the museum there are all sorts of historic locomotives and cars on display. There is a giant articulated Allegheny on display that is an amazing sight. Starting just this year, you can sit in the cab, pull the levers and see what it would be like to be the engineer of this incredible machine.
Home to Ford Motor so there are lots of CSX engines pulling autohaulers everywhere.
Also the Amtrak stops in Dearborn several times a day. There is an engine on each end so they don't have to turn it around and there are usually 5 passenger cars.
Buckeye Riveter wrote: tiger wrote: Live in Northern Michigan, The nearest hobby shop is 2 hours away.Tiger.............Are you a Yuper?
Buckeye, no I'm not a yuper, I'm Located 200 miles north of Detroit alone Lake Huron. If you look at your hand, I'm 1/4 of the way up the index finger and about 150 miles from the UP. The Sunrises are great winter or summer.
I'm located in beautiful Baltimore,MD. HON!
Carl T.
magicman710 wrote: "...Now forum wise, it is Roseyville. The great leader of the South..."Roseyville? Leader? Chief, bit wrong on that one. The capital of the TRUE South is ol' Savannah, GAWGIA. Chief, do you need to brush up on your history? North Carolina was the last state to seceed and the strongest opposer of it.....
You need to bursh up too. NC gave more troops to the great cause than any other state. NC did not have the big plantations like the rest of the South. First to charge at Gettysburg and last to retreat. Actually the War of Northern Oppression ended at Benett's Farm House between Raleigh and Durham NC. That was when the Army of the South was surrendered to Sherman. A note: Sherman was "chewed out" for giving such lenient terms of surrender.
http://www.nchistoricsites.org/bennett/bennett.htm
See Lee surrendered April 9. The largest troop surrender was April 26 at Benett's. Most folks think the war ended with Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Check the dates.
Now the war will still go on until the Yanks agree to eat GRITS and drink SWEET ICE TEA.
I live in Colchester, Vermont. It's a northern suburb of Burlington. Our condo is perched on a bluff over-looking the Lamoille River just up from the delta where it spills into outer Malletts Bay.
We have no hobby shops, so Lionel, MTH, and Bachmann/Williams are coming to see us!
You can come see me during the TCA Convention in June!
Jon
In Quay County New Mexico where the coyotes howl, the wind blows and where at one time the Rock Island, the Southern Pacific, the Dawson Railroad and the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific all met. Now all that is left is the main Rock Island-Southern Pacific Line and the UP owns it!
I live in the beautiful valley of the St. Croix River in Hudson, Wisconsin, about 15 minutes from the Twin Cities of Minnesota. The St. Croix River represents the border between Minnesota and Wisconsin. Its a nationally designated scenic waterway and I'm blessed every year with a number of bald eagles nesting a few blocks away.
Well, a few days late from when the question was posted, but it was interesting to read where y'all come from.
I live in Central Maryland, not too far from the CSX lines that go through Harpers Ferry W VA, Brunswick, & Point of Rocks, with that beautiful old train station that's restored, but just sitting there. Also over the mountain not too far away, is the Maryland Midland, a small line. They operate on trackage out of Pa. into Blue Ridge Summit and down the mountain to Thurmont, and on to Westminster and Baltimore. It has to be one of the most picturesque rail lines on the East Coast. What a pity they're not using it for passenger service any more. There is still an excursion steamer running out of Cumberland to Frostburg and back, marked with the Western Maryland logo. I stick with WM, PRR, B&O, C&O, N&W, the Ma & Pa, and RF&P.
There's at least 5 good hobby shops within a half hour's drive. That's why I'm broke all the time. Starting on layout number two. Got off to a bad start with a bunch of defective Realtrax switches. Tore everything up and returned it for Ross & GarGraves. Almost done. Can't wait to run my trains again.
Boonter wrote:I am located in Northern Californis and have seen only one other post from up here. Sad to say that my area is lacking in sources for trains and train related items. If it wasn't for this forum I'd feel like a total loaner!
Boonter,
I know of a few folks in your area. Your not alone. My area is also lacking in 3-rail train related items. Regarding "being a loaner", search around, you'll find many forums that cater to your interest, as well as this one. Here on the West coast, we may not have the numbers of "Classic Toy Train fans" as the East and Midwest, but we have the passion, and thankfully internet.
You'll find myself located at Greenacres, WA. Where Marx, New Marx and Lionel coexist on O-27 track.
Rod L.
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