midwest

[Anonymous]

And I live about 30 minutes south of Madison, Wisconsin on the way to Chicago along I-90. Maybe 40 minutes north of Rockford...

[Anonymous]

I live in Harry Truman's home town of Independence, MO which is a suburb of Kansas City, MO. Trust me it's the midwest.

Ed

[Anonymous]

I drove through it a couple times.
Lot of locusts.
And where is Waldrug anyway??

[CBQ_Guy]

LaSalle/Peru area, Illinois which is about 90 miles southwest of Chicago, 60 miles north east of Peoria.

[on30francisco]

I'm origanally from Cleveland, Ohio but moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 70s. I had to get away from those awful winters!

[ClinchValleySD40]

Holly, MI

[Anonymous]

I live in Oklahoma. It is listed as a south-western state, but geographacly it is midwestern.

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Roadtrp

I live in a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota. We Minnesotans tell jokes about Iowans... and Iowans tell them about us. Kind of shows that neither one of us has a danged thing to do. [(-D]

Kinda like this one...

Q: Why are all the football fields in Minnesota covered with Astro-turf?

A: So the Cheerleaders wont graze at halftime....




Glad I live way out here on the west coast...

...ya'll can only throw them cheese-wheels so far...[:D]

BTW Dad's family is from Ft. Dodge. Iowa...or as the locals call it, Ft. Durge...[;)]

[joseph2]

I live in Decatur,Indiana.A small city which once had three railroads,one industrial railroad and an interurban. Joe G.

[Anonymous]

I live in arnold missouri just out side of st. louis home of the wonderful cardinals. Im right in the middle of the midwest. glad to jion the site hope to learn alot. ED

[tatans]

Just where is the American mid-west ? I would think Chicago is down east, not quite as far as Maine, but still in the east. Kansas? wouldn't that be the centre of the mid-west? ? What ever happened to North or South Dakota?? Nebraska (with all 350 people) shouldn't it be the Capitol of the mid-west.

[Ziggy]

Mount Vernon, Indiana
Most southern tip of Indiana

[simon1966]

Troy, Illinois, Exit 18 off I55 out of St. Louis, also in the heart of Cardinal Nation!!

[t-whistler]

[:)] I live in the Minneaplois area...........and that is in the midwest.

[Paul W. Beverung]

Parker County Texas. I guess midway between the Atlantic and Pacific. I was born and raised in Milwaukee Wisconsin.

Paul

[Anonymous]

Born and raised in Niles, Illinois, but have been living in Milwaukee, WI for the past 18 years.

Paul

[tatans]

Library of Congress classifies the Middle West States as; IL, IA, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, NE, ND, OH, SD, But wait, it also notes North East States as: IL, IN, MI,OH, WI, They also include in the North West States: IA, KS, MN, MO, Good Luck-- does anyone REALLY know where they live????

[Anonymous]

Somewhere outside of Fostoria Ohio, If ya don't know where that is, you must not be a railfan [:D]

[AltonFan]

Northwest suburbs of Chicago.

[Anonymous]

I know where I am, and that's White lake, Michigan. I have never understood the term MIDWEST. It would indicate the middle of the west, right? West of the Mississippi? Well, if that would be the case, the midwest would be Colorado and Wyoming. I think Michigan is the northern mideast. Make sense? Then, Missouri would be the eastwest, and Indiana would be the westeast.

[tpatrick]

I live in western New York, but I work in Findlay OH and have a B. A. from Michigan State, so I claim to be at least part midwestern.

[deevs]

I live in Michigan

[jdolan]

Dwight ,IL 70 miles sw of Chicago

[tstage]

South Euclid, OH - on the east side of Cleveland, about a 5 min. drive up the hill from the Collinwood yard. You can still see the old coaling tower from the traffic bridge that crosses over the yard. It still stands there regally - even though it's been out of service for years now.

Someone told me that the RR authorities gave up trying to figure out a way to take it down. According to the source, the old coaling tower was so well engineered or "over" engineered, and would have taken so much TNT to demoli***he thing, that the blast would have blown out all the glass windows in a substantial radius around it.

Supposedly, they also tried to pull it down using locomotives. Steel cables were tied around the support columns that hold the coaling tower up, as well as quite a number of locomotives. They pulled and pulled but the old structure wouldn't budge. Eventually, the steel cables snapped and tore through and tore up several diesels in the process.

I guess the old adage really is true: They just don't build them like they used to!

Tom

[Anonymous]

NE Mo. 120 miles north of St Louis, 15 miles from the Mississippi Go Cards!

[ARTHILL]

New Brighton Minnesota, Do the Twin City members ever get together? Do any belong the the clubs and organizations?

[Anonymous]

The true midwest is Central Illinois, right here in Peoria [:D]

[tatans]

Chicago? in the mid-west??, does anyone have an atlas? where would Montana be located? I would think Chicago is located in the North East according to the location on a map, doesn't the midwest represent the prairie (plains) states?, How can Michigan be a mid-west state when it's referred to a Great Lake state, what's going on here? Maybe Chicago doesn't have a place to be, remember anyplace you go, there you are.

[Anonymous]

Oxford, Ohio. Home of Miami University (established 1809)

Remember, Miami was a university before Florida as a state.

[Anonymous]

Cottonwood Falls Kansas about 75 miles southwest of topeka