Originally posted by Steve Frame I am near Morgan's Landing wWVa. Berkley Springs, a resort town, has more massage therapists than lawyers. During the Cold War, a sprawling 112,000 sq. ft. Bomb shelter was built to shelter members of congress in the event of a nuclear attack. It's located beneath the famous Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, WV. .In 1921, West Virginia became the first state to have a sales tax. At the end of the "Guilded Age" in the late 1890's, the town of Bramwell, WV had more millionaires per square mile than any other city in the US Many of their mansions have been restored and can be visited by the public. The first brick street in the world was laid in the city of Charleston in 1873. The first concrete street in the world was laid in the town of Webster Springs, WV in 1903. In 1956, Cecil Underwood (age 34) became the youngest governor in the US In 1996, Underwood ran again and became the oldest governor in the US West Virginia has the oddest shape of any state. This was because Union officials, during the Civil War, arranged all the pro-Union counties of Virginia into a state which then seceded from that Confederate State. And lastly, WV was the first state to utilize food stamps! TCA#09-63805 Reply dwiemer Member sinceMarch 2005 From: Southwest Georgia 5,028 posts Posted by dwiemer on Saturday, February 25, 2006 5:47 AM Leesburg, GA, of course I posted earlier on this thread, but I wanted to extend a welcome to new folks and invite y'all to the coffee pot where we have fun and pick at each other in a friendly way. Dennis TCA#09-63805 Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 25, 2006 5:29 AM 85% Dixie and yes I might have a few Confederate Dollars laying around. Want to trade for some oil? Noel Reply Edit Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 25, 2006 4:32 AM Marion, VA Where the Bristol spur of the NS (Norfolk Southern) RR runs through the town of Marion (population 4000+ and elevation 1990' above sea level) Noel Reply Edit marxalot Member sinceDecember 2003 From: Southern Indiana 432 posts Posted by marxalot on Friday, February 24, 2006 6:11 PM My wife and I were born and raised on the west side of Cleveland Ohio. Most of the family still resides there but we moved to Bloomington Indiana 30 years ago. My son just wrote his second novel --- a mystery based in Cleveland (on the west side) .... go figure! This forum has helped me a lot, thanks all.......... Jim [:D] Reply andregg1 Member sinceAugust 2003 From: Delray Beach, FL 311 posts Posted by andregg1 on Friday, February 24, 2006 4:04 PM Hi Me and my family are living in Delray Beach, Florida. Like 45 min north Miami. Andre. Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 24, 2006 3:30 PM My wife and I live in Hermon, Maine, a bedroom community of Bangor home of the famous writer Stephen King. Neil MacDonald Reply Edit woodsmanmark Member sinceJanuary 2006 From: Owego, NY 5 posts Posted by woodsmanmark on Thursday, February 23, 2006 3:48 PM Owego, NY.....Thats Upstate NY....Approx 4 hours north and west of NYCity.....1 hour south of Syracuse.....10 minutes north of the PA border......Gods country ....4 seasons all with ther own appeal.....lots of other seasons too - hunting, fishing, boating etc..... Train season is year -round. Just getting back into toy trains after my 7 yr old son discovered my old Post war O27 Lionel stuff in my attic. My dad had (lovingly)packed it away when i went off to college and chasing women...at this point I'm not sure who's hooked more - me or my son. Planning and building our new "1st layout" trying to make it modular in 4x4 or 4x3 sections. Using a variety of maunufactures stuff mostly post war Lionel with some K-line (particularly K-Line O27 Remote switches,some other accessories, and a Lackawana Porter) Great Fun! Mark Reply lyle_styles Member sinceApril 2005 46 posts Posted by lyle_styles on Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:13 PM I live in Sturgeon Bay, WI If anyone is curious where that is, it is on the peninsula north of Green Bay next to Lake Michigan. Kind of a big tourist area. Lyle R Ehlers Reply phillyreading Member sinceJanuary 2005 From: Lake Worth FL 4,014 posts Posted by phillyreading on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 9:00 AM Just below West palm Beach FL, Lake worth area, or near FL Turnpike exit 93 by two miles. Been in south Florida just over 21 years but have moved a few times, moved to Homestead first then Stuart then Lake Worth. Thinking about leaving hurricane ally in a couple of years, probally after my wife gets her retirement years in with the county. Origanally from Scranton PA, lived in Reading PA for about eight years, also lived in Stratford CT for about 10 years growing up as a child, parents moved to Reading PA because of my dad's job. I liked Stratford but not the cold climate, beautiful area. My grandfather worked for the Reading Company, the passenger division of Reading Railroad, had good retirement plan. Currently I can watch either Florida East Coast Railway or CSX or Tri-Rail here in Palm Beach County FL Lee Fritz. Interested in southest Pennsylvania railroads; Reading & Northern, Reading Company, Reading Lines, Philadelphia & Reading. Reply drums1427 Member sinceDecember 2005 From: Bristow, VA 45 posts Posted by drums1427 on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:09 AM My wife & I are originally from Virginia Beach, VA. We moved to Northern VA 6yrs ago & now live in Haymarket, VA (about 40 miles west of DC). We're about 2 miles from the NS tracks & can hear the trains in the distance throughout the day. We have pretty good locations for wathing them as well. Reply drums1427 Member sinceDecember 2005 From: Bristow, VA 45 posts Posted by drums1427 on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:08 AM My wife & I are originally from Virginia Beach, VA. We moved to Northern VA 6yrs ago & now live in Haymarket, VA (about 40 miles west of DC). We're about 2 miles from the NS tracks & can hear the trains in the distance throughout the day. We have pretty good locations for wathing them as well. Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 9:40 PM The Bluegrass State - Kentucky Reply Edit ChiefEagles Member sinceFebruary 2004 From: Rolesville, NC 15,416 posts Posted by ChiefEagles on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 9:17 PM QUOTE: Originally posted by brwebster Gormley, Ontario, Canada Located about 20 miles north of Toronto. I think I'd go crazy in the winter if I didn't have the trains to play with but I'd say work is pread pretty even out over the year. In Gormley the population has held steady at 73 for the last 50 years....cuz as soon as a gal gets pregnant she leaves town. Bruce Webster I use to hang out in Perth. Then my buddy died and don't get up there anymore. God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 9:02 PM Gormley, Ontario, Canada Located about 20 miles north of Toronto. I think I'd go crazy in the winter if I didn't have the trains to play with but I'd say work is pread pretty even out over the year. In Gormley the population has held steady at 73 for the last 50 years....cuz as soon as a gal gets pregnant she leaves town. Bruce Webster Reply Edit Buckeye Riveter Member sinceMarch 2004 From: Jelloway Creek, OH - Elv. 1100 7,578 posts Posted by Buckeye Riveter on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 7:54 PM NSTRackman....I've been to Bluefield, WV and it is one great spot to watch trains rolling through the mountains of WV. In fact, WV is a great state to watch the big coal trains leaving the mines. PE Tim, you would like WV especially in the vicinity of Davies or Smoke Hole. 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 Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 19, 2006 6:56 PM Live on the state line near Bluefield. on the south side if the NS Main Line MP-N369. nice place to live. better spot to watch trains. not far from the yard and CV juction. Reply Edit lstriebeck Member sinceFebruary 2006 From: Homecroft 2 posts Posted by lstriebeck on Sunday, February 19, 2006 6:37 PM Homecroft, in Indiana...actually a suburb of Indianapolis- near Southport. I do tend to do more with the layouts in the winter. The summer seems to be filled with yardwork. In the summer, I tend to just go downstairs and play with the layout, and leave the work on it for the winter. Ah, it's great to be "7 years old" again...(in real life, I'm almost 55). By the way, I just "discovered" Gargraves flexible track. It sure is great; especially for those "impossible" curves and little jogs I had to make on my latest expansion. (now if I could get the fireplace out of the room, or make the basement bigger...) Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 19, 2006 6:25 PM After reading above , I am thinking of moving to W VA..................Tim Reply Edit superwarp1 Member sinceJanuary 2001 From: US 102 posts Posted by superwarp1 on Sunday, February 19, 2006 5:12 PM Western Mass, Near a old NH line and B&A(CSX) used to cross Regards, Gary Reply Dr. John Member sinceMarch 2004 1,774 posts Posted by Dr. John on Sunday, February 19, 2006 4:23 PM Whoops, where are my manners. Welcome, dlagrua! Reply Dr. John Member sinceMarch 2004 1,774 posts Posted by Dr. John on Sunday, February 19, 2006 4:22 PM Wow! I'm late to this. Prattville, Alabama, just north of the state capitol of Montgomery. Reply dlagrua Member sinceApril 2014 120 posts Posted by dlagrua on Sunday, February 19, 2006 3:43 PM We reside in Hillsborough NJ which is in Somerset County in the Central/Western part of the state where folks still have some acreage, own horses and maintain small hobby farms . It's heavily wooded around here and the terrain is mostly rolling hills. It's actually a very convenient and nice place to live but super expensive. Thats the price that you pay for living midway between Phila and NYC. Its also a great location for train show buffs. Within an hours drive there are over a dozen trains shows. York in about 2:45 away but that is still not bad and only a twice a year deal. Reply cmrj Member sinceJanuary 2004 From: morris il. 102 posts Posted by cmrj on Sunday, February 19, 2006 3:39 PM vibraphonusrex , Corn fest is still a tradition around here get's bigger every year. The County Fair is second to it . We look forword to it every year, Mike Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 19, 2006 3:20 PM I live in Kenosha, Wisconsin, pretty close to the border with Illinois. We live about 2 blocks from Lake Michigan--I love it! Talking about Morris, Illinois--I grew up in Rock Island, Illinois, (which is why I love the Rock Island Lines). When I was in the marching band at Rocky, we would go win, I mean compete, in the Morris Corn-Monster parade every autumn. I remember they would give us a chicken dinner at the courthouse, or at least I think it was the courthouse, in downtown Morris. Yes, I've been to Morris! Bob Blomberg Reply Edit cmrj Member sinceJanuary 2004 From: morris il. 102 posts Posted by cmrj on Sunday, February 19, 2006 9:34 AM I live in Morris IL. about 70 mile's SW of the windy city. A small farm town with growing pain's, and a couple of nuclear power plant's with in a stone's throw, [ I80 & RT47].My back yard look's out at a nature preserve,and the Illinois river just beyond. Have a great day Mike Reply Anonymous Member sinceApril 2003 305,205 posts Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 19, 2006 8:43 AM I am near Morgan's Landing wWVa. Site of Sid Morgans packet boat service and pre 1918 market hunting and guiding service. All so a landing site for the Ohio and Indiana Yankees that weer driven out of the Kanawha Valley in 1826. We live along the Midland Trail and James River and Kanahw Turnpike. The middle passege to the West. The C&O RR followed the Turnpike a great distance. West Virginia is the only state to be created from another state (Virginia...in 1863). Berkley Springs, a resort town, has more massage therapists than lawyers. Berkley Springs is the only place in the US to boast:"George Washington bathed here." W.V. has had the nation's lowest crime rate for the past 26 years. During the Cold War, a sprawling 112,000 sq. ft. Bomb shelter was built to shelter members of congress in the event of a nuclear attack. It's located beneath the famous Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, WV. White Sulphur Springs has the only private residence in the US that is made out of coal. The city of Bluefield, WV bills itself as "America's Air-conditioned City." They back up their boast by serving free lemonade anytime the temperature reaches 90 degrees. St. Andrews Methodist Church in Grafton was the site of the first Mother's Day celebration in 1908. Two West Virginia men have built castles for their wives. Stephen Elkins built "Halliehurst" in 1890 for his wife Hallie Davis Elkins...the only woman in American history to be the daughter, the wife, and the mother of a US senator. In 1885, whiskey distiller Taylor Suite began building Berkley Castle for his new bride, Rosa Pelham, who was 31 years his junior. He died in 1908, a year before the project was finished. Rosa completed the castle but went on the squander her inheritance on extravagant living and wild parties and ended up losing the castle and living in a shack and raising chickens make ends meet. Philippi, WV was the site of the first land battle of the Civil War. The first officer killed in the Civil War was General Robert S. Garnett (Confederate) at Corricks Ford (Near Parsons in Tucker Co.) In 1921, West Virginia became the first state to have a sales tax. The mother of Abraham Lincoln, Nancy Hanks, was born near Romney, WV. The largest single shipment of matches...20 railroad cars full...was sent from Wheeling, WV to Memphis, TN in 1933. In 1947, Chuck Yeager, a native of Hamlin, WV, became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound. The Old Stone Church, in Lewisburg, was built in1796 while George Washington was President and has been in continuous service ever since. (It is Presbyterian) At the end of the "Guilded Age" in the late 1890's, the town of Bramwell, WV had more millionaires per square mile than any other city in the US Many of their mansions have been restored and can be visited by the public. With an average altitude of 1,500 f! eet, WV is the highest state east of the Mississippi. The first brick street in the world was laid in the city of Charleston in 1873. The first concrete street in the world was laid in the town of Webster Springs, WV in 1903. Indirect artillery fire (action against an unseen target) was used for the first time in military history at the Battle of Fayetteville on May 20, 1863 by a 19-year old Confederate, Sgt. Milton Humphreys. Virtually all modern artillery fire is now indirect fire. James Rumsey of Shepardstown, WV invented the first steamboat. After he died suddenly in England, while raising funds for his project, his friend, Robert Fulton, took his plans and completed the work and is now credited with the invention of the first steamboat. In 1956, Cecil Underwood (age 34) became the youngest governor in the US In 1996, Underwood ran again and became the oldest governor in the US The hardwood flooring in the famous Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York was manufactured by the Meadow River Lumber Co. of Rainelle, WV. West Virginia has the oddest shape of any state. This was because Union officials, during the Civil War, arranged all the pro-Union counties of Virginia into a state which then seceded from that Confederate State. And may we add, Mingo County, WV, the Heart of the Billion Dollar Coal Field is home of the "Coal House", which holds the Chamber of Commerce. It is located in the county seat, Williamson and is constructed entirely of local coal cut into blocks. And lastly, WV was the first state to utilize food stamps! Great site for W Va trains http://mountainstaterails.net/ The reason why trains were more popular here and in new England was that is where Lionle markeeted them. Flyer for example went to the west coast only after WW!! and that was becuase Lioel had not tried selling trains there. An other eason is that the large cities were a better market, they had large stores, transpotaion, infostructure, ie., electric and the salaries that rual american did not. 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QUOTE: Originally posted by brwebster Gormley, Ontario, Canada Located about 20 miles north of Toronto. I think I'd go crazy in the winter if I didn't have the trains to play with but I'd say work is pread pretty even out over the year. In Gormley the population has held steady at 73 for the last 50 years....cuz as soon as a gal gets pregnant she leaves town. Bruce Webster
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