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Several years ago my son was living in New Jersey and I was planning a trip to go see him one summer. About that time there was a RR group that was asking for donations to "Save the Brooklyn Roundhouse" and in my reading of this place I became intrigued and decided that I would donate to the cause...
But I wanted to do it "in person", so... seeing as that I was going to be in New Jersey and just a few miles across New York Harbor from "Brooklyn", I started to search maps for the location of this Roundhouse in "Brooklyn". I hunted for a long time, following RR tracks on the maps looking for a "Roundhouse" or a "yard" or anything that I could use to find the place.
After much searching, I contacted one of the principles in the endeavour and it turns out this "Brooklyn Roundhouse" is in Portland, Oregon... about 2887 miles from where I would be. I did not get to visit
and they did not get my donation.
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Based on some random comments by some of the participants of the threads about this "Wee/Big/Little/whatever Train Show" in "Ontario", I am guessing that it is going to be somewhere in the United States, probably in Southern California, but just saying it is in "Ontario" leaves one wondering if it will be somewhere on the Northern shores of the Great Lakes, or maybe a bit farther north, up around Hudson's Bay!
After a quick search of some maps I see it could also be in any of 3 places in Ohio, as well as New York, Minnesota, or Texas!
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It took me a couple of years to learn that the "International Small Scale Steam Up" was not held on the slopes of a volcano in Hawaii! I coud not figure out how people were "driving" to it from Michigan!
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I have the same problem with Newspaper and TV web sites... There are dozens of Newspapers named "Tribune" and many multiples of others named "Gazette", "Star" and/or "News" and there are likewise many Channel 2's, 4's, 9's and all the other numbers, but many of them are apparently so disenchanted with, or embarrassed about, where they are that few of the web sites have any indication as to what city (or even State or Country) that the web site pertains to.
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Its a great big world out there... please be more specific as to a location you want to talk about... especially if you are expecting people to be planning a trip to visit the location upon which you expound.
YOU may know the where you are talking about, it might be a subject that you know like the back of your hand, but the rest of us may not know which hand you are referring to.
Thanky Kindly....

But I wanted to do it "in person", so... seeing as that I was going to be in New Jersey and just a few miles across New York Harbor from "Brooklyn", I started to search maps for the location of this Roundhouse in "Brooklyn". I hunted for a long time, following RR tracks on the maps looking for a "Roundhouse" or a "yard" or anything that I could use to find the place.

After much searching, I contacted one of the principles in the endeavour and it turns out this "Brooklyn Roundhouse" is in Portland, Oregon... about 2887 miles from where I would be. I did not get to visit


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Based on some random comments by some of the participants of the threads about this "Wee/Big/Little/whatever Train Show" in "Ontario", I am guessing that it is going to be somewhere in the United States, probably in Southern California, but just saying it is in "Ontario" leaves one wondering if it will be somewhere on the Northern shores of the Great Lakes, or maybe a bit farther north, up around Hudson's Bay!
After a quick search of some maps I see it could also be in any of 3 places in Ohio, as well as New York, Minnesota, or Texas!
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It took me a couple of years to learn that the "International Small Scale Steam Up" was not held on the slopes of a volcano in Hawaii! I coud not figure out how people were "driving" to it from Michigan!
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I have the same problem with Newspaper and TV web sites... There are dozens of Newspapers named "Tribune" and many multiples of others named "Gazette", "Star" and/or "News" and there are likewise many Channel 2's, 4's, 9's and all the other numbers, but many of them are apparently so disenchanted with, or embarrassed about, where they are that few of the web sites have any indication as to what city (or even State or Country) that the web site pertains to.
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Its a great big world out there... please be more specific as to a location you want to talk about... especially if you are expecting people to be planning a trip to visit the location upon which you expound.
YOU may know the where you are talking about, it might be a subject that you know like the back of your hand, but the rest of us may not know which hand you are referring to.
Thanky Kindly....