what is your 10-20

[wisandsouthernkid]

i thought that i should throw a question out there for fits and giggles. where is everyone from??

[joe-daddy]

i thought that i should throw a question out there for fits and giggles. where is everyone from??

 

Sure, you go first. . .

 

Joe 

[wisandsouthernkid]

me, i am from iron ridge wisconsin

[bobbo]

I'm from Slough, Berkshire, England. Bobbo.

[chad thomas]

I am from California, but spent some time in Washington and Nevada. Just about everywhere I have lived has been a stones throw from a SP line (or subsidiary line). Lets see.....

Oxnard on the SP coast line.

Belmont, Ca. on the SF-SJ commute line.

Alturas, Ca. on the Modoc line.

Anaheim, Ca. on the Anehiem branch.

Modesto, Ca. on the east Valley line.

Van Nuys,Ca. on the Coast line.

San Jose, Ca. on the Coast line.

Palm Springs, Ca. on the Sunset Route.

Palmdale, Ca. on the Palmdale cutoff.

Stevenson, Wa. about 45 miles from Portland, Or. (furthest I ever lived fron an SP line)

Dorris, Ca. on the Shasta Line.

Lathrop, Ca. on the Altamont Line.

Elko, Nv. on the Overland route.

Chula Vista, Ca. on the SD&IV (a SP subsidiary)

[J. Edgar]

1.47 miles due north of milepost CH 52 Plymouth sub Detroit div CSXT

[ShopsYardMaster]

i thought that i should throw a question out there for fits and giggles. where is everyone from??

 Just up the road from you......

BTW-my ex-wife lives in Iron Ridge....[censored]

[espeefoamer]

L.A. CA.

[JoeKoh]

defiance ohio(between toledo and ft wayne on us 24) on the garrett sub of csx.

stay safe

joe

[bigbird_1]

Winnipeg, Manitoba about 1 km west of the CP Rail Winnipeg Beach sub and 5 km north of the Weston yards.

[CNW 6000]

i thought that i should throw a question out there for fits and giggles. where is everyone from??

 Just up the road from you......

BTW-my ex-wife lives in Iron Ridge....[censored]

North of both of you in Oshkosh, WI.  If I spend much more time in NFDL taking pics of trains at the yard I might have to change my address.

[mj5890]

I live in Middleton WI, which acording to Money magazine is the Best place to live in America!!!

And since some would say that America is the best place to live in the world, that means I live in the best city in the world!!!!

 

Joe

[Lord Atmo]

Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the worst railfanning location in the whole world

[caduceus]

Baudette, Minnesota.  One mile south of the CN.

[steam_marc]

St. Louis, Missouri. #3 railroad freight city in America.
1 mile northeast of BNSF
1/2 miles north of UP
1/2 miles north of Amtrak run-throughs
3 miles west of the McArthur Bridge
2.5 miles west of TRRA

Did I leave anyone out?

[SSW9389]

Crestwood, Kentucky within three miles of the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant on CSX. It's a little further to CP O'Bannon on the CSX line between Louisville and Cincinnati.

[Amtrak77]

Fontana, Ca.

10 Min from the El Cajon Pass
7 Min from the San Berindino, Riverside, Colton yards
40 Min from Mission Tower in Union Station

All great places to watch trains go by 

 

[Flint Hills Tex]

I live in Dinkelsbühl, a small, lovely medieval town in the province of Central Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. The 52.4 km long Imperial City Branch line runs through town. It connects the main line running from Nuremberg to points West and the Augsburg-Stuttgart main. Unfortunately, daily freight traffic only serves customers at the northern and southern ends of the line, which are switched from the respective mains, leaving a big chunk of the railroad unused. Except, of course, in the Summer, when the Bavarian Railroad Museum of Nördlingen runs steam excursions. If you're interested, you can check out the Web-site at:

www.eisenbahn-woernitz-franken.com

P.S. The picture at left shows a vintage DMU departing the Dinkelsbühl depot.

[frontierfan]

Red wing MN great railfaning spot CP on one side of the river and BNSF on the other

[ValorStorm]

East Missoula (try to say THAT with a lisp) Montana.

[tomikawaTT]

Sin City, on the UP, LA&SL route.

Chuck

[THayman]

Johnstown, Ontario....

right at MP 110 on CN's Kingston Subdivision (VIA's Quebec City- Windsor Corridor) 

[THayman]

Johnstown, Ontario....

right at MP 110 on CN's Kingston Subdivision (VIA's Quebec City- Windsor Corridor) 

I should add to this....I'm currently studying at St.FX University in Antigonish Nova Scotia....not great railfanning, especially since VIA cancelled the Bras D'Or....but I can see the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway's line from my window....the CB&CNS often runs one train in each direction each day through town.

 It's quite a change from the 30-40 + CN and VIA trains that run past my house every day at home....

[RicHamilton]

Johnstown, Ontario....

right at MP 110 on CN's Kingston Subdivision (VIA's Quebec City- Windsor Corridor) 

..... in Antigonish Nova Scotia....not great railfanning,

Hello to Antigonowhere from Berwick in the balmy Annapolis Valley.  At least you have trains to watch....

[trainfan1221]

Northern New Jersey here, home of the changing rail scene.

[THayman]

Johnstown, Ontario....

right at MP 110 on CN's Kingston Subdivision (VIA's Quebec City- Windsor Corridor) 

..... in Antigonish Nova Scotia....not great railfanning,

Hello to Antigonowhere from Berwick in the balmy Annapolis Valley.  At least you have trains to watch....

true...I do feel fortunate to at least have the occasional one....still, compared to living next to the country's busiest corridor, well, it's just a bit of a shock (a sort of withdrawal perhaps?) 

[BNSF_GP60M]

Hanford, Ca.  Half a mile from San Joaquin Valley Railroad's Huron line and 500 ft from BNSF's Bakersfield Sub. My advatar pic was taken from my front yard.

[MStLfan]

Rotterdam, the Netherlands. I have a good view of the Rotterdam - Dordrecht 4 track mainline in leafless season (can't call it winter in these globally warmed days and calling it an extended autumn makes me shiver from all the rain). Plenty of passenger trains, too numerous to mention here. Freigth traffic is good too, for as long as it lasts (more and more trains go via the new Betuweroute to Germany). There are paths in the timetable for 2 freight trains an hour in each direction going to or coming from the largest harbor after some Asian ones. Mostly containers, 6 loaded coal trains, some mixed freigth, unit grain trains, steel and increasingly tankcars. What actually moves at what times seems te be mostly on a first come first served basis, not to mention the influence of troubles at the borderstations or track problems.

greetings,

Marc Immeker

[Boomer Red]

Petitcodiac New Brunswick, about 30 minutes west of Moncton on the CN line to Saint John.

[CaptainChuck]

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Orono Maine, 1 mile from the Pan Am Railways main line to Mattawamkeag and probably 20 minutes from the MM&A At Northern Maine Junction. My home however is in Norway Maine, 2 miles from the St. Lawrence & Atlantic railroad. If I'm lucky I can see 6 trains in one day but I have to hunt for them mostly because I live in the dark ages of Form D's... However me and the pops have managed to venture outside our nice corner of no where to real railroads so I've had my fill of mainline action. =)