Dave - Rrrr (Roberta my girlfriend and opperator of the Pink Fox Lines), is from Cumberland. Do you know of any good places to watch trains from ?
i'm from suffolk county long island n.y. great if you like watching the same boaring passenger trains go by, once in a while maybe a ney york&atlantic frieght will roll by. modeling conrail 1988-1990 upstate new york mohawk division.......
Living in one of the suburbs of Austin, Texas, even after reading American Dreamscape by Tom Martinson, I still think the suburbs here are horrid. Architecturally at least. About to move out to the "country" about 20-25 miles northwest of my current residence. Our house will be ~900 sq. ft. larger, and we'll have ~9.75 more acres of land (our current house is ~1500 sq. ft. and on .25 acre). Was modeling the Missouri Pacific: Austin Subdivision in Austin, Texas in 1950 on a 10'x8.5' shelf layout 1' deep, but now that I'm moving, I'm looking at 2 1'x4' modules with an attachable staging yard modeling a freelance railroad in West Texas in the late 1950s.
Yikes, that true everywhere.. Every suburban "town" in the entire twin cities are looks exactly like the rest of 'em! Oh, and I live here: My House
I'm from the original Brighton in the UK....born and bred...or is that bread! Live about 3 miles from the sea and just in sight of a tunnel ventilator shaft for Patcham Tunnel on the Brighton mainline. Oh and I model the DRGW!!!!
I've been busy on another thread and almost didn't notice this one. Does anyone really care or are we just trying to fill-up cyperspace with a bunch of hootenanny? How old is this thread? Well, if I'm repeating myself here...what do you expect from an senior. Where am I from? My handle isn't a give away? Southern California is where I hale from. Barstow, Ca., is where I was concieved, despite objections from the locals. I was born under a train bridge on the Cajon Pass and immediately told to leave as I was trespassing on railroad property. I was then taken to Loma Linda Medical Center where my paper work officially gives them credit to claim my birth right...ahh...I mean arrival. I grew-up (Is that correct?) in Hollister, Ca. Today, as in currently, trying to stay cool in Big Bear Lake, CA. I tend to model all the western type railroads with Santa Fe being the host railroad...my favorite. Perhaps this has to do with family who worked for Santa Fe out of Barstow, CA until retirement. Which doesn't make me important or famous....I couldn't handle it anyway. That's it in a nutshell. And the railroad never did forgive me for choosing under the bridge as my arrival spot to this world. They still chase me out of there. Grin! Thanks for asking.
hey frisco, i lived in pottsboro for a while as a kid. you know where that is? thats where my uncle jack lived and retired from the frisco rr after over 50 yrs.
i live in BANGS, TX. yes thats a real place. i was raised in ft.worth just north of the railyards there. now i live in a small town where the U.P. and Ferromex comes through regularly. BTW hello everyone, its nice to be alive.
I grew up in Denison, TX and after graduating high school, went to school in Oklahoma for two years before joining the Air Force. Have traveled a lot including 4 wonderful years in Germany and the UK. I have been retired from the Air Force now for 17 years and last year moved to Oklahoma to be near family. Finally, I am near enough to visit Denison again. In fact, we are planning a reunion of family and friends we grew up with this October. Should be fun to gather together again and remember some good times.
I am from Nashville Tennessee,well just outside in Smyrna and I model anything modern but I am partial to BNSF.Gotta love those paint schemes.
Of course it does. That was five years ago, which is 4-1/2 years past what I can remember on a daily basis, at least according to my spousal unit.
Tom Martinson, who wrote that book about suburbia, which is as close to neutral about the subject, and has an international city-planning practice in Minneapolis, purports that at least part of the reason as to the "blah-ness" (my word) of the more modern suburbs being the changed mindsets (starting in the 1950s, influenced by European Modernists teaching in the U.S.) of architects towards the idea that designing houses was "lowly" work. And of the disappearance of landscape architects from any important parts of the process of shaping a subdivision. He puts forth Frederick Law Olmstead's Riverside, and Ian McHarg's The Woodlands as examples of what a good landscape architect can do.
There is a song from the 60s, "Little Boxes" by: Malvina Reynolds As it is I think the reason is: cost.
I am from Singapore, model all diesels from the early diesel era to the present on a freelanced layout. My favourites are ATSF, SP and BNSF Cheers
Born, raised, and still living in Philly. In northeast Philly for the last 27 years. My freelanced Tioga & Great Lakes is set in north central PA and south central NY in 1956.
I live in Riverside Ca. Where its too hot in the summer for my garage layout. I have been in the Inland Empire most of my life therefore have been able to see Colton yard(SP now UP), San Bernardino(SF now BNSF) yard, Cajon pass,Beaumont grade, Riverside corridor to Long Beach, the Colton SP/UP diamond, etc.... There is so much action around me one could go crazy, shoot I have waited for 5 trains in the Riverside/Colton area as there is an area where you have to cross multiple tracks twice. I model Cajon loosley with a yard(Colton) grade to summit and Victorville, with staging. Anyone out there in my area, maybe we could get together and share layouts.
