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What's the name of your pike?

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, May 7, 2004 10:12 PM
My layout is the KR&NP--the Kneading, Repaire, and New Partes.

Here are some of my mottos:

“Connecting Kneading with some other places, in a little while.”

“Route of the heavyweighters”

“The grammatically and meckanically challenged lien”

“If it absolutely must get there overnight, then we might just start a new freight for you.”

“The first railroad with dispatching software designed by Archimedes and brakes by Nostradamus”

“Here at KR&NP we value tradition—that’s why we haven’t bought new equipment in 147 years.”

“We always welcome excursioning locomotives—after all, we have a nine stall roundhouse and four locomotives.”

“Our equipment isn’t made by Pullman per se, but in a little bit you might have to get out and pull, man.”

See you around the forums,
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Posted by clinchfieldfan on Tuesday, May 4, 2004 6:13 PM
As I model the coal mining region of southwestern Virginia I simply call my railroad the "Appalachian Division". I run trains from the N & W, Clinchfield, Southern, and the C & O.
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Posted by insfil on Tuesday, May 4, 2004 3:33 PM
The name of my pike, which is now in the building stage, benchwork that is,
will be "The M & P Railroad" The "M" for my wife Marlene, one terminal will be "Marlsburg", the "P" for me, Phillip, the other terminal to be "Phillipsville".
insfil "Once I built a railroad, made it run, made it race against time..."
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 3:53 PM
Heres my pike....





It is called, "my bedroom"[(-D]


I am a floor runner until I get enough room to build an organized layouy.[:D]
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Posted by FJ and G on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 8:06 AM
Here's an irreverent listing of nicknames of real railroads that may or may not inspire your quest to name your pike. Frankly, naming my pike is the least of my worries.

http://www.spikesys.com/Trains/nickname.html
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Posted by Big_Boy_4005 on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 7:31 AM
For me, finding a name for my layout is tricky, because I'm modeling parts of 4 different real railroads. Maybe something like the Twin City Central, or the Twin Cities Division, but those don't quite sound right. The slogan I have; "Route of the Amtrak Empire Builder". That really says it all.
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Posted by daan on Tuesday, April 27, 2004 2:11 AM
My old european style prewar 0 gauge railroad was the ironbrigde& clearwater RR. Called so because of a home made iron bridge in it with a span of 1m across what imaginable would be an unpolluted river. My new american based layout.. I don't know yet, something like IJ&F (It just fits) or R&B (rediculous big) I'll find one when I start building it..
Daan. I'm Dutch, but only by country...
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 26, 2004 9:26 PM
We fondly refer to ours as the TM&EMC (Throw money and eat mac 'n' chesse).[:D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 26, 2004 8:49 PM
I like the Round and Round RR!!

On second thought, since my RR consists of two loops, how 'bout "Too Loopy RR"?

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 26, 2004 8:09 PM
im waiting to name my railroad till i buy my first rideable live steamer
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Posted by guilfordrr on Monday, April 26, 2004 7:52 PM
My railroad's name is rooted in its geography: the Phillidephia and Rhode Island, a fictional division of the Pennsy.
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Posted by Jim Duda on Monday, April 26, 2004 7:46 PM
Because mine is so huge and expansive, I call it the PAP...**** Ant Pike...!

JD

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 26, 2004 7:18 PM
My current pike is the A A & E Railroad. Named after our granddaughters, Alexandra, Amber and Eladia.
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Posted by fjerome on Monday, April 26, 2004 6:41 PM
my first NYC apartment pike was the Riverside & Ridiculous RailRoad (the R&R RR). so named because we lived near Riverside Drive and the whole concept of an O (O-27, really) pike in a Manhattan apt. was ridiculous. the second version in a different apt. in the same building had the same name.

the current layout, in FL, is the Brewer Avenue & Pacific, so named because we live on Brewer Avenue (a street most people in this town cannot find) and because i have significant roots in the Pacific Northwest. the slogan? Serving Central Florida and the Far West.

Fabulous Forrest at the Brewer Avenue & Pacific
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 26, 2004 6:18 PM
Sometimes the name of my pike is the [censored] & [%-)]
Also know as the C&C LINE
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Posted by Buckeye Riveter on Monday, April 26, 2004 5:48 PM
Mine layout is named the: Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash. As a kid I rode the National Limited from Baltimore, Md, to Cincinnati, Ohio. We then boarded the NYC James Whitcomb Riley and headed for Lafayette, Indiana on the banks of the Wabash River.

Some day when we have a post about train wrecks, I'll tell you about the wreck of the National LImited in 1956.

Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum. Smile, Wink & Grin

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Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR

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Posted by nitroboy on Monday, April 26, 2004 3:55 PM
Still working on building it, so hopefully during construction, a good name will emerge.
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Posted by FJ and G on Monday, April 26, 2004 3:18 PM
Donald,

That's funny! Real railroaders often had equally colorful terms for their railroads. I can't recall them all, but WM was the Wild Mary and some other ones alluded to slow, sporadic service or lack of money (Lackawanna). Maybe some other forumites can think of some. It'll come to me but I'm in a fog at the moment, and my fog lights are not on.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 26, 2004 3:09 PM
I was born in the small Indiana town of Winamac, and my friend who's helping build the layout was born in the even smaller Tennessee town of Culleoka.

So it's the Winamac & Culleoka R.R.
The formal motto: "The Hoosier Volunteer Route"
The "informal" motto: "Send it down the W.C."
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Posted by Dr. John on Monday, April 26, 2004 1:49 PM
Mine is the Opelika & Oneonta ( O&O ) or "The Round and Round Route!" I got the idea for the reporting marks and slogan from a tiny, cigar box railroad I saw years ago. It featured a silver dollar surrounded by a code 40 rail soldered to circuit board ties. An N scale docksider went around using the coin for the inside rail. It was lettered O & O for the "Round and Round RR".

I have several other slogans for my railroad such as:

"Wherever you go, there you are"
"We'll give you the run-around!"
"You can't get there from here!"

To me, developing your own roadname is part of the fun of the hobby. I've noticed it is far more common in HO or N than in O. I guess most folks cringe at the thought of repainting some valuable piece of prewar (or expensive modern) rolling stock and hurt its value. Still, you can name your railroad, then run what you like and say it's leased equipment or it has running rights on your road.

I am planning to reletter an MTH NYC docksider with the O & O reporting marks along with a K-Line caboose. Who knows? One day I might have O & O Hudsons, Turbines and maybe even F-3s! [:D]
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Posted by Roger Bielen on Monday, April 26, 2004 11:42 AM
Mine is the E.L.M. Ry., a division of the CB&Q. The E.L.M. is the initials of my three grandaughters and the CB&Q because I've been collecting CB&Q freight cars and thus the majority of my rolling stock is such.
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Posted by FJ and G on Monday, April 26, 2004 11:34 AM
SFKent,

If/when your locomotive flies down to the slab, I bet you have some other choice names for it. :-)
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, April 26, 2004 11:01 AM
I never thought about naming mine....

Maybe I will call her "Jennifer".
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Posted by FJ and G on Monday, April 26, 2004 9:52 AM
"A broken gateman"

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Doug,

I read somewhere that one pike was named B&K or "BrokeandKantFixIt" or something like that.

Another interesting one by J. Allen, perhaps most famous was Gorre and Daphetid.

If you don't like humor, your scenery sounds like somewhere in the American Heartland so Heartland Central?

Or Pleasantville? I think there was a movie with that title. Your pike sounds pleasant.
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Posted by cnw1995 on Monday, April 26, 2004 9:47 AM
Good questions, Dave. Industries or geography can help with a name - though with me they might not clarify. I haven't any industries or stations yet (no accessories to speak of) There's two long sidings.A few bridges. A broken gateman. A farm. A lake. An airport. Roads. We run roughly three trains: a 248 mixed train: 2 passenger and a few pre-war freight cars; the Ballyhoo circus train; and an MPC-era FA-led misc. freight.

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What's the name of your pike?
Posted by FJ and G on Monday, April 26, 2004 9:05 AM
No; not Northern Pike, you fisherman; train pike.

This topic is from another post by Doug that I thought deserved its own space:

"...Have any of you have a slogan and name for 'your' railroad. My son and I have yet to name our pike: I'd be open to any clever suggestions or would like to hear about your road.

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Doug Murphy

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Doug,

Mine is the Belen Sub, a real name. Sorry can't help in the creative area.

Tell us what industries your pike serves or the name of your mother-in-law and i'll suggest a name.

Dave

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