Bakersfield, California... In the middle of all the UP and BNSF any one person can handle! Too bad I prefer Eastern roads. Gary
I am another Aussie! I am From Toowoomba in Queensland, Australia. This is the State people from all around the world love to holiday in. Beautiful Beaches, the Barrier Reef, Bikini's etc. I model the Pacific Northwest and and some Canadian. [ 12 March 2002, 06:47: Message edited by: MRL Mick ]
I live a few hundred feet from the ironhead of the CSX river line in bergen county nj. Sometimes it looks like at nite the trains are coming into my living room. Thirdy four maybe more or less come pass the house . I am living in seventh heaven with the proto type in the backyard and two layouts in the basement. Have fun railroading Superheater
My name is Gene Maddox, I live in Sterling Heights Michigan,but am from Dallas Texas.I have been in N scale since 1976 and I model Santa Fe and other western railroads.
My name is Garth. I live in central Connecticut. I like N Scale. It feels like I am attending a Locohaulic meeting. My favorite roads are UP, CSX & SP. My wife likes BN, Chessie System & BNSF.
I was born in Nebraska, and raised just about everywhere else in the Midwest. Back in my HO days I started modeling the Frisco, mainly due to my exposure to this fine railroad in 1973 to its merger with BN in late 1980. Since I've switched to N, I've gone to modeling a freeelanced shortline (my second favorite railroad), and am currently building my version of a modern-day Paris & Mt. Pleasant. This version is in Clifton, Colorado, an unincorporated community between Grand Junction and Palisade, CO, in the shadow of Grand Mesa and Mt. Garfield. The era is late 1970s to present, and true to a shortline heritage I have a dog's breakfast of locomotives- an ex-CNW GP7, ex-CNW SW1200, ex-BN GP20, and an Alco RSD4 on unknown heritage (but it IS a late-model Atlas product). (voice of Rod Serling) Submitted for your approval- a Nebraska native modeling a Texas shortline in Colorado, using Midwestern motive power. A man confused, but happy in his confusion. A portrait of a model railroader- stuck in a warp of space and time- in the Twilight Zone!!
I live just a bit south of Bob, near the center of the Twilight Zone !! I was born and raised in Colorado, in a little town known as Louisville, just east of Boulder. My job has taken all over the west and mid-west but I'm glad to finally be back in my home state, and glad to be on the other side of the mountains . My favorite railroad is actually the Denver and Rio Grande and after several years and several layouts with a "Rio Grande" flair, it was time to do something different. So with the switch from HO to N, so to a switch from Rio Grande to Santa Fe . Although not currently running (ask my wife why !) usually my 16, 15, and 5 year old sons enjoy operating the layout with me. In August we will be adding another engineer to the family !! John John
Lived in Chester, NY until the late 80's. Currently living in Tempe, AZ - soon moving to Chandler, AZ. Modelling EL/CR transition in Eastern NY.
I'm another Canadian EH! I live in central British Columbia in an area called The Okanagan Valley that is the lake, grape growing and wine country of B.C. I model The CNR in Western Canada in N scale from the 1930's up to 1960 and so far have only built a big switchyard for my layout using Kato Unitrack. I enjoy steamer fixing, detailing and kitbashing and scratch building scale operational signal and turnout lights for all the reverse loops in my switchyard and the rest of the proposed layout. It is great to be on board.
Ok it's great to see so many guys posting here, just remember we do have a layout topic running and it would be great if more members could post pictures of there layouts
G'day, General! Unless I am reading the information incorrectly, one needs to have a web site to post a photo and, that being the case, I cannot do it. I suspect there are many of us in that same boat.
Sorry Alan, my layout is still in my minds eye. The room for it is finished and ready for the benchwork though. I grew up on Long Island right next to the LIRR, I model (intend to) the UP and now live in Virginia in a part with no railroads. Only the bike trails that now exist are the only remnants. Jerry
Very sad, Jerry to have bike trails where once trains ran We had loads of rail lines closed in the '60's I think, during a purge of 'unprofitable' lines. Now we wish we still had several of them! The new by-pass to our town, to the next town north used to be a double track line to London, and I feel guilty driving my car along it Good luck with the layout when you get started
Dick, you are correct in your statement we are however trying to provide a service to members where you will be able to load pictures through trainboard- stay tuned for further developments soon.
Sunny southern California!! I model, well, ANYTHING! you gotta have fun, so I just buy what I want (and can afford).
I live in Petersburg, Alaska, about halfway between Juneau and Ketchikan in the Southeast Panhandle. For the geographically uneducated, that's a long ways away from any railroad! I model the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Ry. in 1969, just before the BN merger. Pat
