Where do you all live?

[Anonymous]

Parma, Ohio. A suburb of Cleveland. I love this forum. You guys have been a tremendous help to me in building my own toy train layout. Thank you all!

[casconi]

Louisville, KY!

[spankybird]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dkselick

Parma, Ohio. A suburb of Cleveland. I love this forum. You guys have been a tremendous help to me in building my own toy train layout. Thank you all!

Another Buckeye. Welcome to the CTT forum. Be sure to check in on the Ohio Roll Call

http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?page=-1&TOPIC_ID=54295&REPLY_ID=655713#655713

If you ever make it to the East Side of town, you should stop in on the OTTS meetings. [:D]
Price is right ( FREE) [;)]

and check out The Western Reserve Model Railroad Museum at
www.wrmrrm.shutterfly.com

tom [^]

[Nick12DMC]

Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK
Not far from the East Coast Mainline.

Nick

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by spankybird

QUOTE: Originally posted by dkselick

Parma, Ohio. A suburb of Cleveland. I love this forum. You guys have been a tremendous help to me in building my own toy train layout. Thank you all!

Another Buckeye. Welcome to the CTT forum. Be sure to check in on the Ohio Roll Call

http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?page=-1&TOPIC_ID=54295&REPLY_ID=655713#655713

If you ever make it to the East Side of town, you should stop in on the OTTS meetings. [:D]
Price is right ( FREE) [;)]

and check out The Western Reserve Model Railroad Museum at
www.wrmrrm.shutterfly.com

tom [^]

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the invite. I saw in an earlier post that you live close to Stewarts Hobbies. I work on the east side in Mayfield Heights and occasionally visit Stewarts during my lunch break. He has a very nice collection of 1:48 scale vehicles.

Thanks for the info regarding the Western Reserve Model Railroad Museum. I didn't know such a thing existed so close to home. I'm going to check it out sometime in the near future. Thanks again.

Sorry for the bad quote post. I'm still trying to figure out the ins/outs to posting on this forum.

[Demon09]

My kinda place, sweet home Chicago......

[Anonymous]

South Bend, Indiana.....

[Anonymous]

Central Kansas, where the nearest O scale hobby shop is 90 miles away and the nearest GOOD hobby shop is over 200 miles away.

[dwiemer]

Southwest Georgia, where the closest hobby shop is 90 miles away and the nearest train store is much further. We have one train show a year and that's mostly HO. Makes road trip have significance.
Dennis

[laz 57]

Originally from HAZLETON, PA now reside with my wife and dog in MILLERSBURG,PA.
laz57

[Anonymous]

Beautiful North Idaho, In the middle of the Bitterroot Mountains, smack dab in the middle of Gods country, on a forest service road. Three miles to the nearest paved road, Two miles to my mailbox. Ten miles to town., and 15 miles to Schweitzer Mountain ski resort, where I plan to be skiing tomorrow night.....Whewwww...... Here's the spot........Tim

http://www.trails.com/tcatalog_trail.asp?trailid=BGW052-037

[zeames1]

Tom S.

<<<Thanks for the info. I never heard of The Locomotive Works. Where exactly is it? Do they do pre-sale or have decent prices?>>>

He's on route 425 about 4 miles north of route 104. I happen to run across him this past holiday season while I was surfing ebay. He'll do preorder with deposit required on odd ball stuff he might not be able to get rid of easy if the deal falls through. When you see mail order blow out in CTT he probably has same item at comparable price. All other prices are comparable to Artcraft. Also, if you want a ridable train in your yard, he manufactures some really nice stuff in his barn/shop. These are for the "money is no object" individual. Call him at [phone].

Jim

[AKKevinT]

In the land of the Midnight Sun for half the year and the home of the truely Frozen Chosen the other half of the year.

Fairbanks, Alaska

[crip]

Where nature smiles for seven miles

Sping Lake, Michigan

[Pennvalley]

S.E. Pa.

[nitroboy]

I live in Columbus, the capital of the great state of Ohio. But its not ALL that great.

[Anonymous]

West coast is the best coast.



(til the big one)

[Kooljock1]

Born & raised in Amityville, NY.

Went to college in New Wilmington, PA.

Lived in Mystic, CT & Westerly, RI.

Living in Colchester, VT these past 11+ years.

Jon [8D]

[Anonymous]

Southern California near Los Angeles (Glendora). Chief Eagles, you're making me homesick with all that talk about North Carolina Bar-B-Q. I was born in Rocky Mount You mentioned everything except water ground corn bread. We can't get that kind of corn meal out here. The stuff they have locally could be used for sand paper. Ray

[Anonymous]

I live in Greensboro,N.C.about 15 miles south of the farm where I was born and still piddle. Worked and lived in New York/ New Jersey for many years before moving back south in '79 [retired from Denim business in '92].

My mom was from Dennison, Ohio, one of 12 children so I have a couple of hundred Buckeye cousins . During the '30s and '40s I visited my grandmother many times via the N&W. After grandpa died she variously lived with family in New Comberstown, Urichsville and much later in Columbus and Berea. First time I ever ate grits was at the farm near Dennison where an uncle had a feed/flour mill [ don't tell Chief--it will ruin the Buckeye/Tar Heel grits feud].[:D]

[Anonymous]

N.E. Florida, also known as S.E. Georgia when Georgia and Florida play football. [;)]

[msacco]

Saint James, Long Island.
About an hour east of New York City. The original home Lionel Trains!!!!!!!!!!!!.


Mike S.

[Anonymous]

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.

Still today you see more train buffs and toy train opperaters in the north East and upper midwest that the south of the west.

[cmrj]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[cmrj]

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

[dlagrua]

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.

[Dr. John]

Wow! I'm late to this.

Prattville, Alabama, just north of the state capitol of Montgomery.

[Dr. John]

Whoops, where are my manners.

Welcome, dlagrua!