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Re: Any Canadians here? - MasonJar - 12-23-2008

Sorry I'm late... Big Grin

Checking in from Ottawa, Ontario.

CNR is my railway (to use the Canadian parlance Wink) of choice, although my module(s) will be set in the fictional town of Marlpost, Ontario. It's a village, really, planned to be representative of southern Ontario in the 1930s.

Andrew

Re: Any Canadians here? - Beamish - 12-23-2008

I am sitting here wearing my bunnyhug with a Riders logo on it, freezing my but off in the city with the fastest growing economy in North America..
Mike from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Re: Any Canadians here? - TrainClown - 12-23-2008

Greetings from the prairies. I'm in Regina, Saskatchewan. I have the CN main line running past my back yard. Always lots of trains thundering past our place. So much so, our house's foundation is broken and sinking.

-41c right now [Image: muffy.gif] and the snow has let up for a while this morning.

Don't get me wrong though, I like this place and I like this weather, too. I spent too much time on the west coast, rusting away. I like a definite change in seasons. [Image: paperbag.gif]

I enjoy scratch building models in HO, Z and 1/29 scales.

HO is my favorite scale and all my trains are in HO.

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I have been experimenting building in Z scale. I enjoy the challenge to get the details on such a small scale.

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My interest in 1/29 scale has little to do with trains as I have some figures I bought with plans to build animated dioramas.

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I also enjoy military tank and airplane plastic model kits.

So that's me, a Crazy Canadian TrainClown,[Image: trainclowngif.gif]

Christopher [Image: thclown.gif]

Re: Any Canadians here? - Trains Winnipeg - 12-23-2008

Just sitting here freezing in the center of the country! Icon_lol

Re: Any Canadians here? - train1 - 01-02-2009

Count me in with the Canucks on the board.
I own too much N Scale stuff.
Trying to locate some local N scalers to possibly form a new club in my immediate area. My old club lost its layout space in Hamilton.
drop me a PM

Re: Any Canadians here? - Wayne R - 01-04-2009

Another Canadian here way up in northern Ontario. Ontario Northland Railway country. I was modeling the ONR but switched to modeling CNR steam ( circa 1956 or so ) a few years back. I am starting a new layout as soon as I get my track plan finalized. It will have a Rocky Mountain theme and I am planning on handlaying all the track. Well the turnouts will be made from Fast Tracks jigs. Smile


Wayne Reid

Re: Any Canadians here? - doctorwayne - 01-04-2009

Another Ca-knucklehead here, down in southern Ontario's banana belt. Misngth I have several free-lance railroads that interchange with both the CNR and the TH&B, so I try to keep things fairly prototypical, even on the free-lanced roads.

Wayne

Re: Any Canadians here? - Squidbait - 01-04-2009

Yo!

I'm in Southern Ontario near Paris Jct. on CN. I model in HO, N and On30. I'm a miserable, unfriendly sarcastic but helpful curmudgeon. Tongue

(Somebody has to disprove the rule that all Canadians are nice, eh? Wink )

Re: Any Canadians here? - Biased turkey - 01-04-2009

I'm Belgian but have been living in Montreal for about 30 years, does it count ?
I'm modeling the CN ( there is a CN line 100 meters down the road ) but at night, when no one can see me , I secretly runs my TH&B engines and rolling stock.

Jacques

Re: Any Canadians here? - LynnB - 01-04-2009

Biased turkey Wrote:I'm Belgian but have been living in Montreal for about 30 years, does it count ?
I'm modeling the CN ( there is a CN line 100 meters down the road ) but at night, when no one can see me , I secretly runs my TH&B engines and rolling stock.

Jacques
Sure does count. Cheers

Re: Any Canadians here? - bob_suruncle - 01-05-2009

I'm here... used to lurk on that "other" board

Like Squidbait I too am from the Paris Junction area.... actually right here in Paris Ontario and have been a model railhead since I was about 5... so that is some 30++ years Eek

I own a small LHS in Paris which only made the train addiction worse.... only difference is now I have even less time to build Icon_lol

Rail interests include the Finger Lakes Railway, New York Central and Pennsy specifically on the Elmira branch. Current plans include a freelanced HO FGLK layout backdated to the 40's once my kid and his wife finish school and move out of my train room Wink

Pic. attached is from my current switching layout which is actually our test track at the store

Re: Any Canadians here? - LynnB - 01-05-2009

Hi Bob
I see you do great work, can you post more pics.

Re: Any Canadians here? - Squidbait - 01-05-2009

Hey, nice pic Bob! When did you shoot that?

I should have mentioned that my modelling interests (when they're focused) are in the NYC/PRR operations in the finger-lakes area, specifically the Elmira Branch/Auburn road joint operations. Someday when I have a basement of my own I'll be modelling the west shore of Cayuga lake, with PRR I10 decapods and ABBA NYC FA2-s and sharks hauling coal trains to Sodus Point and Syracuse.

Re: Any Canadians here? - Squidbait - 01-05-2009

Here's a few pics from Bob's layout:

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Re: Any Canadians here? - LynnB - 01-05-2009

Some great pics, I like the pickle car.