IN WHICH CONTINENT or COUNTRY IS YOUR MODEL RR SITUATED ?

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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In which part of the world is your model railroad situated, I think most forum members are Americans modelling American railroads, prototypical or fiction, but browsing the forums I found out some of you model “a long way from home”

BTW: I am from Holland and I model the UP (this may seem like foul language to some of the members nowadays, but It appealled to me because it is one of the biggest american RR’s and have had some awsome locomotives through the years ) I guess it is as corny to you as an American modelling a dutch RR ( we have 3 or so ) with a windmill next to a canal and a dude wearing wooden shoes putting his finger in a dike seems to me.

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The best part of Canada, where else?

Lets stir that pot

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Yeah well, that was before “Juan” paid a visit.

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Lupo,

I model RhB, the proto is 9 time zones removed from here.

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WOW I didnt know Canada was its own Continent? I thought there were only five, North America, South America, Eurasia, Africa, and Austrailia

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Now if you really wanna stir that pot you should organize a phone-in for the pronounciation of “Musquodoboit”.

That should be good for plenty of laughs.[:o)][:I][:D]

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Vic,[;)][:)]

I didn’t know that USA was either; general opinion of resident population notwithstanding.[;)][}:)][:o)][:o)][:D]

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I’m sure alot of canadians WI***hey were on a seperate continent from the US .[:D]Ha HA![:p]

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Vic,

Yep, the Adams books (I guess you guys considered him one of yours) together with what Hiaasen writes are definitely a redeeming factor.[;)][:I][:D]

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[:)]Vic [:D]
[8D] I really think that its officially seven.
Add Greenland and split Europe and Asia, at the Volga River (I think).

[:)] Great idea Lupo [:)]

Of course my HO layout is actually in a Philadelphia basement – therefore on the North American continent – and I do model US railroads, part of the time – but the main purpose was as a stage for my British OO models [:D]

Therefore my layout probably likes to think that it is in Europe !!

[:D][:D]

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None of the above. My land is a fictious, very large island in the South Atlantic called Dalreada.

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[#oops] forgot the USA - CANADA politics, corrected this, so I possibly offend somebody else I think . . . .[#oops]
[:I] and I added country to the poll title [:I]

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Boys, did you had geography in school? we have 7 continents on earth:

-Asia
-Africa
-Europe
-Australia
-North America
-South America
-Arctica

I´m from germany bud i model Amtrak and electric engines in the US, germany models are too expensive for me and american engines are much nicer for me.

Micha

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The USA is where my layout is modeled after. But it is a CANADIAN railroad I am modeling.
That way I shouldn’t have problems with scenery.
It’s a lot easier to get American stuff such as cop cars, etc etc etc… than it is Canadian unfortunately.

Gordon

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I model northeastern US.

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[;)]
Supermicha’s closer on the seven continents issue.

Just need to correct “Artica” (which is all ice) to “Antarctica” (which has land under its ice)

[:D] I just knew it was one of those “big islands” covered in ice !! [:D]

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I think that a more scientific survey would have results that would show something like 90% to 95% of us choose to model railroads close to home, and the ones who don’t have visited or once lived in or near the locations that they do model.

The other factor that may influence a person’s decision of what to model is product availability. We can get European models in North America, but they simply aren’t as popular here, and most stores don’t bother to carry them.

Hey Lupo, is the same true in Europe? My guess is that American products are slightly more available there, but are they popular?

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It still looks very nice, thank you very much. We just have fewer old trees than we used to…[B)]

p.s. Fergus, do we know each other?

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I live in the Netherlands (aka Holland) but dutch railways are dull and other european countries don’t interest me. I like the exotic of american railroads and specifically of the mighty old class 1 roads ATSF, SP, UP and BN. So I took a Rand McNally atlas and looked were I was liable to find all of them at some time or other. Between Chicago and Omaha-Sioux City, so that where I situated my layout.

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American Railroads EXOTIC??? of all the terms I could use to describe US rail, Exotic isnt one of them…I’m laughing right now because I would have thought of European trains like the Eurostar or the TGV as “exotic”. Guess it really does depend on your perspective. Whats common and dull to one, is exotic and exciting to another.[;)]