What countries are we from?

[alpineaustralia]

Out of curiousity, what cities, countries are we from?

I'll start us off:

I am from Sydney Australia

[CaptOblivious]

Currently, St Louis, United States. As soon as I graduate, who knows?

I'm of Cajun heritage, and was born in Baton Rouge; I've lived up and down the Mississippi River, but spent most of my time growing up in northern Mississippi (the state, not the river).

[Martijn Meerts]

I live in Oslo, Norway at the moment.

Was born and raised in Venlo, The Netherlands (and will likely move back there later this year.)

Venlo is known for 2 things, both of them related to it neighboring to Germany. The first one is the drugs tourists. With soft drugs being legal in The Netherlands, a lot of Germans visit the coffee shops ;)

The second one is a lot more fun though. Venlo actually has a rather large freight yard. Reason for this is that practically all freight transport to and from Germany went through Venlo, and large parts still do. I used to sit on the train station all day long when I was a kid, looking at all the trains =)

[bikkuri bahn]

Currently live in Sapporo, Japan.  Nearest subway line is the Sapporo Transportation Bureau's Toho Line. Nearest railway is the JR Hokkaido Hakodate Main Line.

Originally from the Los Angeles, CA area.

[scott]

Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

[Shashinka]

Washington, DC, though I consider myself to be a born-again Canadian.

[Claude_Dreyfus]

I'm from a small town called Pulborough in the south of England. Milepost 50 from London is on my local station platform, but despite the close proximity to the city I am in the middle of the countryside. And as of 2010/11 my town will be right on the border of the UKs newest national park.

A born and bred Sussex man.... ;D

[Darren Jeffries]

Wow we really are international... well this was always going to be, it started off an anglo-american setup with Bernard and I starting the forum.

I was born and raised in London but now live in the cotswolds in a medium sized town called Cirencester. The nearest City is 18 miles and that is Gloucester.

[Fenway Park]

Born in Croydon Surrey and have lived on the England Wales border for the past 21 years overlooking the Wye Valley.

[Bernard]

Boy do I love this thread! I glad you started it Alpine.

I'm from Glen Cove, New York, USA... work in NYC, but also grew up in Rutland, Vermont.

[to2leo]

Well born and spent 1/3 of my life in Hong Kong, Hong Kong (now China), grew up and working in Toronto, Canada.

People usually find the first third of my life more interesting!

Also, it is more fun to ask people to guess where I am from on my annual month long trip.

[Bernard]

Leo - Can you also speak fluent Chinese? I never developed an ear for languages and I am so envious of people who can speak in multiple languages.

[cteno4]

California boy transplanted to Washington DC about 7yrs back. British isle, french, and german mutt with a splash of american indian (the amount depends on which relative you talk to in texas).

cheers,

jeff

[Shashinka]

Boy do I love this thread! I glad you started it Alpine.

I'm from Glen Cove, New York, USA... work in NYC, but also grew up in Rutland, Vermont.

Get the hell out of here. My mother was born in Glen Cove, out on the Island.

[to2leo]

Leo - Can you also speak fluent Chinese? I never developed an ear for languages and I am so envious of people who can speak in multiple languages.

I speak Cantonese but write Chinese.  Unlike English, you cannot really write Cantonese down.

Hey Bernard, I also find ppl who speaks multiple languages to be an interesting bunch.  I think I am attracted to their desires to explore and learn from different cultures.

[Tenorikuma]

I'm Canadian and I live in Nagoya, Japan.

[quinntopia]

Let's have some left coast love here....Snohomish Wash., about 30 minutes north of Seattle, Washington, 90 minutes South of Canada.

[SubwayHypes]

^ Also from the left side, SAN FRANCISCO NATIVE.....now currently living in oakland.   I have lived alot in Tokyo too, mostly in the Hiro-o Ebisu area..now my grandpa lives in Shinjuku where i plan to visit him.

[disturbman]

I'm born and bread in Paris, France. I've seen a lot of this country as l lived in many places outside Paris to and I've also lived in Crete, Greece, for some months and right know I'm settling down in Berlin, Germany.

I will stay there some years and hopefully find my way to some over places in Europe or, I hope, Japan.

[Concept Model Trains]

Currently in Canberra, Australia.  Unfortunately the place has no trains!  For the previous 20 years I have lived in Sydney which has been my inspiration in rail.


http://www.conceptmodeltrains.com.au

[Bernard]

Get the hell out of here. My mother was born in Glen Cove, out on the Island.

Aaron - Ask your mother if she's heard of the Suozzi Family, for 3 generations they have been the mayors of Glen Cove, Long Island. I think they win the elections because no one wants to change the names on the signage around town.

[Shashinka]

I'll ask her sometime today, thoguh it's been like 40 or 50 years since she lived there. I guess in her teens the family moved to Nyak.

[bill937ca]

I'm in Belleville, ON Canada on the Via Rail Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto corridor.

[Tenorikuma]

I'm born and bread in Paris, France. I've seen a lot of this country as l lived in many places outside Paris to and I've also lived in Crete, Greece, for some months and right know I'm settling down in Berlin, Germany.

I read your introductory post in another thread with great interest. French and German are my two favourite languages, and I admire anyone who speaks both. :)

[bikkuri bahn]

Currently in Canberra, Australia.  Unfortunately the place has no trains!  For the previous 20 years I have lived in Sydney which has been my inspiration in rail.


http://www.conceptmodeltrains.com.au

That's surprising that a national capital has no trains...and unfortunate for a resident who likes them.  My condolences ;)

[alpineaustralia]

Well, let me give you guys more details about me.
Born in Egypt and came to Sydney, Australia as an infant about 39 years ago.
I can speak (but cannot read and write) Arabic.
And yes... before you ask....Egypt does have a train network.

[railzilla]

Hi,

I am from Switzerland and live near to Zurich. Zurich is very well connected with trains nationally and internationally. The main station is one of the busiest in Europe so there are always many different trains to look at. It has an efficient commuter network with trains, trams, trollybusses etc. Its the city with the highest modal split for public transit in Europe and considered as a public transit model city. So i guess i got a good place to stay for a train lover.

P.S. I can speak German, English a little French and a bit Mandarin.

[Shashinka]

Admins, is there any way we can a flag icon next to our user names in a similar fashion as other boards have?

[disturbman]

I read your introductory post in another thread with great interest. French and German are my two favourite languages, and I admire anyone who speaks both. :)

Thanks but I don't deserve such praises since I was born in to french, I don't have any merrit. ;)

Admins, is there any way we can a flag icon next to our user names in a similar fashion as other boards have?

Then I think we will need more than one flag for each to show. We are a lot to be born in one place and to lived in another country. ;)

[domino]

As some of you may have guest, im from Denmark, born i a town called Horsens in the main land of Jutland.

And for the languages i speak , Danish-English-German-Icelandic.

[cteno4]

And for the languages i speak , Danish-English-German-Icelandic.

Icelandic, OUCH!  :o That one will make your brain hurt!

cheers

jeff

[domino]

And for the languages i speak , Danish-English-German-Icelandic.

Icelandic, OUCH!  :o That one will make your brain hurt!

cheers

jeff

 ;D not really, i lived there for 7 years , so i had time to learn.It also have some connection to the Danish languages.

domino

[Shashinka]

As some of you may have guest, im from Denmark, born i a town called Horsens in the main land of Jutland.

And for the languages i speak , Danish-English-German-Icelandic.

I thank G-d that the Icelanders spoke English. Sadly, no trains there in Iceland. Plenty of puffins though. Not exactly a tasty bird, not fun to try and ride on either.

[cteno4]

just heard it was one of the hardest languages to casually 'pick up'! not like listing to french tapes! It was the one selected for the savant guy to master in a couple of weeks as it was so nasty to get at all good with.

i envy your language abilities. mine are very stunted, mildly dyslexic so english can be a tussle for me and 4 yrs of french was the hardest class i ever had. except at the end in conversation was the only thing i could do well at by just piecing together the little i learned into something that could at least communicate. everyone else got hung up on making it perfect, but i could never even hope to retain enough gramme, rules, and vocabulary to get anywhere near perfect!

cheers,

jeff

[domino]

As some of you may have guest, im from Denmark, born i a town called Horsens in the main land of Jutland.

And for the languages i speak , Danish-English-German-Icelandic.

I thank G-d that the Icelanders spoke English. Sadly, no trains there in Iceland. Plenty of puffins though. Not exactly a tasty bird, not fun to try and ride on either.

Thats right no trains, but they have about 100 meters of track, many years ago they wanted to see if it was possible to build a railway system there , but gave up quickly.

Puffins are the Icelandic national bird.

[domino]

just heard it was one of the hardest languages to casually 'pick up'! not like listing to french tapes! It was the one selected for the savant guy to master in a couple of weeks as it was so nasty to get at all good with.

i envy your language abilities. mine are very stunted, mildly dyslexic so english can be a tussle for me and 4 yrs of french was the hardest class i ever had. except at the end in conversation was the only thing i could do well at by just piecing together the little i learned into something that could at least communicate. everyone else got hung up on making it perfect, but i could never even hope to retain enough gramme, rules, and vocabulary to get anywhere near perfect!

cheers,

jeff

Thanks for the nice words.
I have a "flair" for learning languages, some how they just come easy to me  ;)

domino

[Tenorikuma]

Puffins are the Icelandic national bird.

Newfoundland's provincial bird too. :) And Icelandic is a cool language but I have several others I need to get down first. It can't be any harder than Japanese at least.

[domino]

Newfoundland's provincial bird too. :) And Icelandic is a cool language but I have several others I need to get down first. It can't be any harder than Japanese at least.

I think that japanese if very diffucult for all non asian.
Like all scandinavien countries (Denmark-Sweden-Norway) we understand one another sort off  ;), but icelandic is very different than scandinavin languages, althoug there are similarity to especially the Danish languages, because Iceland once was under the Danish Kingdom, but during WW2 Iceland was seperated from Denmark because of German occupation in Denmark.

[Shashinka]

As some of you may have guest, im from Denmark, born i a town called Horsens in the main land of Jutland.

And for the languages i speak , Danish-English-German-Icelandic.

I thank G-d that the Icelanders spoke English. Sadly, no trains there in Iceland. Plenty of puffins though. Not exactly a tasty bird, not fun to try and ride on either.

Thats right no trains, but they have about 100 meters of track, many years ago they wanted to see if it was possible to build a railway system there , but gave up quickly.

Puffins are the Icelandic national bird.

Man, do I have stories about Iceland, and one little one about Denmark. If I wasn't going to Asia, Scandinavia is always the next on the list.

[Sushi Train]

I'm a New Zealander, I live in Brisbane, Australia. I speak 5 languages, Kiwi, Aussie, American, Canadian and English.

[stevenh]

Currently in Canberra, Australia.  Unfortunately the place has no trains!  For the previous 20 years I have lived in Sydney which has been my inspiration in rail.
http://www.conceptmodeltrains.com.au

That's surprising that a national capital has no trains...and unfortunate for a resident who likes them.  My condolences ;)

I'm from Canberra too, still living here... we do have trains.. you just have to find them!

But yes, this town does suck for railfans....

[Bernard]

I'm a New Zealander, I live in Brisbane, Australia. I speak 5 languages, Kiwi, Aussie, American, Canadian and England.

LOL - In that case I speak 5 languages, Brooklynese, Yo Queens, New Yawk, da Bronx and Longs Island and none of them sound like English.

[domino]

As some of you may have guest, im from Denmark, born i a town called Horsens in the main land of Jutland.

And for the languages i speak , Danish-English-German-Icelandic.

I thank G-d that the Icelanders spoke English. Sadly, no trains there in Iceland. Plenty of puffins though. Not exactly a tasty bird, not fun to try and ride on either.

Thats right no trains, but they have about 100 meters of track, many years ago they wanted to see if it was possible to build a railway system there , but gave up quickly.

Puffins are the Icelandic national bird.

Man, do I have stories about Iceland, and one little one about Denmark. If I wasn't going to Asia, Scandinavia is always the next on the list.

Do tell ??

domino

[Shashinka]

Will save for another thread. I will say this, all the attractive Icelandic women work in the places where I least feel comfortable talk to them, LOL (Involving a certain notorious museum)

[Mudkip Orange]

Yo Queens

I thought that was an LL Cool J album.

[scott]

Yo Queens

I thought that was an LL Cool J album.

I hear he's into O gauge.

[Lawrence]

Thought I would add to this, I am from Fife on the North East coast of Scotland.  About 20 miles south of me is St Andrews (the home of golf) and we live on the South bank of the River Tay overlooking Dundee and from the bedroom window on my left is the Tay Rail Bridge and on the right, the road bridge. I am ex RAF so have been around a bit but am home now 

[westfalen]

I only just noticed this thread. Chalk up one for Ipswich, Australia, 38km west of brisbane.

[grumbeast]

Same here Lawrence, I just noticed it.
 
I'm Welsh,  a valleys boy from Caerfilli, but have spent the last 13 years in Canada, on the right hand coast in Nova Scotia.  Currently living in Dartmouth.  We do have a railway, in fact its the start of the transcontinental run, but only 1 passenger train a day (arrival and departure) and only about two freights (there is a little local switching traffic though) so it does suck a little.  Its nice to get home to South Wales and hang about on the main Cardiff --> London mainline

Graham

[alpineaustralia]

Dont we also have some one from Russia?
No one from Africa yet (unless you count my ancestral home) or South America.