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Who lives near who?

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 23, 2004 7:25 AM


I'm an hour southeast of Philadelphia in southern New Jersey, which is called South Jersey by those who live here. There are about a half-dozen of us who stay in touch through myLargescale.com, as well as by visiting.

In the Delaware Valley, which makes up the greater Philadelphia area, there are also some nice large scale shops. Although our weather can range from 0 to 100 degrees F during the course of the year, generally it is moderate so we have an excellent garden railway environment.

By the way, that photo above includes my Lehmann Porter on the left, and Rick R.’s Bachmann industrial 2-6-0 during a visit to my layout. We always try to bring something to run during a visit.

Regards,
Bill C.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 23, 2004 4:47 AM
i'm on vacouver island on the west coast of canada, I'm about 17 hours behind melbourne time.[;)]
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Posted by nalts on Thursday, July 22, 2004 11:50 PM
Best I can tell, I am very fortunate to live near OLD DAD. He's about 45 minutes away from me. I've had the pleasure of meeting Larry twice at our Garden Railroad club's open houses. If things go well, I'll see him again on Saturday to make it thrice. [;)]

I live about 55 miles northwest of St. Paul/Minneapolis in Minnesota, USA.

Chris
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Posted by Curmudgeon on Thursday, July 22, 2004 11:32 PM
A 30-06 shot east of Seattle
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Posted by toenailridgesl on Thursday, July 22, 2004 10:20 PM
Ian, there a whole bunch of Queenslanders hang out on the MLS forum, and Sydney has a very active LS club. Check their website here:
http://www.trainweb.org/lgbofozclub/
Phil Creer, The Toenail Ridge Shortline,  Adelaide Sth Oz http://www.trainweb.org/toenailridge toparo ergo sum
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Who lives near who?
Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 22, 2004 9:35 PM
We are a worldwide forum and it would be nice to know who lives near who. I think my closest neighbour is a guy who only shows up from time to time, his name i think is Tony and he lives in New Zealand about 2500 km away or more like 1500 miles. Phil in South Australia is about 4000 km and John is about another 1000 to 2000 km further on. Vic is also fairly close only 11000 km (7 - 8000 miles) across the Pacific

The furtherest away is Kim or maybe Troy, half a world and you can't go further than that un;less you start coming back again!

I am also 10 hours ahead of Greewich time and the forum is 6 hours behimd.


Rgs ian

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