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Does your pike have a name?What's the origin of the name?

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Does your pike have a name?What's the origin of the name?
Posted by mackb4 on Sunday, November 20, 2005 1:33 AM
I'm building a pike that in realality doesn't exsist,but at one time was once a near realality.I live in Eastern Kentucky where the C&O and B&O(CSX) both ran,and across the Ohio River from the old N&W(NS),and in the same county where back in the 1930's a little railroad called the EK Railroaad(Eastern Kentucky) once roamed.It can still be read about in Jesse Staurt books,mainly "Huey the Engineer".At one time the EK just about built a bridge from Greenup,Co(KY),to Scioto Co.(OH).But the depression wiped out the railroad.So based on these facts,my fictional railroad theme is named "The Eastern Kentucky & Ohio R.R.".What's your pikes name,and how did you come up with it's name?[^]

Collin ,operator of the " Eastern Kentucky & Ohio R.R."

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Posted by daan on Sunday, November 20, 2005 1:38 PM
Salt River Canyon RR.. No origin, based on small bridge on my layout next to a small canyon where a river runs through. In my fantasy world this river contains salt water, first in mind because the river is close to the sea and has tidal influences, but it can also be because the origin of the river lies in a salty clay plane further inland.
Operating on the SRC RR are Pennsylvania, Norfolk and Southern and Santa Fe. Erie also has a pair of alco's sometimes running there. Those railwaylines are common together (found pictures on the web where several of these RR names are photographed together) I don't know about the erie though..
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Posted by Buckeye Riveter on Sunday, November 20, 2005 1:55 PM
The Baltimore, Cincinnati & Wabash Railroad
Main Offices: Roger's Corners, Ohio

CEO: Mrs Buckeye Riveter

President: Buckeye Riveter
The BC&W RR is a major carrier of plastic people and unsold commodities and has not turned a profit in many years. The motive power and the rolling stock are in great condition except for a broken Santa car. Real estate has been purchased for a major expansion. Capital expenditures currently include new wiring and signal projects. New motive power is to be delivered on December 25, 2005.

The BC&W RR's main competition is the Roseyville and Southern Railroad that lacks a good roadbed and route through the mountains of the east. The Roseyville Road, we believe will be filing bankruptcy any day now due to political corruption. (We have heard a rumor that the Mayor of Roseyville has been taking kick backs from the Roseyville and Southern. It is indeed a sad situation.)

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Posted by csxt30 on Sunday, November 20, 2005 2:09 PM
Well, we're just gonna have to go down there & clean up some of that corruption going on down there ! It's time for the BC & W to start makin' some money for our OTTS subsidiaries, & trip to Jons' house out west !! [:D][:D] Boy, the nerve of some of these RR Tycoons nowadays !! http://www.bassfiles.net/parachute.swf
Here's a plan I have for dropping in down there unannounced . Just click on !!!!! [:D]
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Posted by spankybird on Sunday, November 20, 2005 2:13 PM
Buckeye – Just to add to the whoaes of the Roseyville and Southern Railroad its main line is closed do to a land slide from Wedding Present Mountain.

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 20, 2005 2:13 PM
Mine is a fiction rail road. Since I am from Alaska and like the outdoors I came up with the Buck River Rail Road. Or for short BRRR[:D]
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Posted by ChiefEagles on Sunday, November 20, 2005 4:02 PM
Ithink the S&R is in great shape. It has more rolling stock and engines than the BC&W. [this is shown from photos]. My main mover is real coal. [not plastic nor fake] Now the next in line is John Deere. So the scallowags of the Nawth spin their untrue yarns. Just like a bunch of Yankees. [;)]

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Posted by nitroboy on Sunday, November 20, 2005 5:36 PM
The DM&M Railroad. That's the Dave(me), Michelle(wife), and Mya(daughter) Railroad. The DM&M is going to be demolished for the new and improved DM&M Railroad the first of the year.
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Posted by fjerome on Sunday, November 20, 2005 7:16 PM
My pikes always have something in the name that is specific to my locations. The Brewer Avenue and Pacific http://homepage.mac.com/fjerome/BAMenu.html is so named because our house is on Brewer Avenue and any decent railroad has "Pacific" in the name.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 20, 2005 7:39 PM
No name yet although I've left ample room on my control panel for the name once it is dreamed up. I haven't even named the town. The signs remain blank on my station. Being a shelf RR I'm thinking something like "blah blah Narrow Top RR"

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Posted by laz 57 on Sunday, November 20, 2005 7:43 PM
YES that S&R Railroad, ahh the road bed down there still looks like recycled carpet fibers.....hmmmmm.
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Posted by Buckeye Riveter on Sunday, November 20, 2005 7:55 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by spankybird

Buckeye – Just to add to the whoaes of the Roseyville and Southern Railroad its main line is closed do to a land slide from Wedding Present Mountain.


[(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D] Tom, that must be your best line of all time! [(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D]

Where do we get the dynamite to take care of the land slide problem? [:D] I also heard that they had to have major engine overhauls to get the darn things to run. Obviously, the CEO has not been devoting enough attention to the Roseyville and Southern and has been preoccupied with fishing.

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Posted by cnw1995 on Sunday, November 20, 2005 8:09 PM
Currently the Illinois Pacific, the best 027 pike stretching from here to there. I'm musing about a traction subsidiary which would share the same initials as Johnston Traction Company - any ideas?

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Posted by Jumijo on Monday, November 21, 2005 5:28 AM
Our pike's name is The Jumijo Railway. The name comes from the first two letters of each of my children's names - JUlia, MIchael, JOhn. Set in New Hampshire, Halloween, the colored foliage, and the presidential elections are all clues that the time period is set in autumn of 1956. Liveries of several different RR's can be seen there, including the SF, NYC, and B&M. A locomotive or two from the Island of Sodor has also been known to run along our countryside.

Jim

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Posted by mersenne6 on Monday, November 21, 2005 6:14 AM
Whenever I come home with a new addition my wife's first words upon seeing the new package is "Oh Oh!" So the original name was just O&O RR. Since I had to come up with something for the two "O's" I chose Ophir & Oblivion - Ophir was the site of a lot of silver mines. People use silver for money, and it does take money to purchase trains. All of my layouts are of the rug central variety so they are temporary in nature thus, their final terminus is Oblivion (of course I do have the pictures [:)] )
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 21, 2005 1:06 PM
MS& B for the Mouse Creek and Buffalo.

It is a coal & lumber line linking the mines and cuttings to the C&O.. J iI Dorsey owns it.

He was my grandfather, he owned a small store, backed by a lumber company for their requirements. Later many years afterward he rebought the land at a tax sale and gave it to my dad had who build a camp on it to hunt and fish. That was on mouse Creek in Nicholas Count y W Va.

Dad grew up on a stream called Big Buffalo and being in the South at that timed the area was named for the watershed.

My Grand dad in fantasy owns the who shebang under the name he operated his business with, J I Dorsey Stores.

He actually was nearly a millionaire in the 1940's.

He owned interests in lumber, a chain of movie theaters, banks and built two volunteer fire departments.

He was also was on the county executive comity for his political party.

I wish I had the sense to pick his brain when I was young, heck he only had a third grade education.

His first real store and home was in Finwick W Va, where the Ely-Thomas Co. was and also up the street the Big Mill at Richwood.He helped start the hospital there.

He was very generous and helped half the county in the depressen, during miners strikes and many families whos husbands were in WW11. That is why he "almost" a millionair.
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Posted by railfanespee4449 on Monday, November 21, 2005 1:57 PM
My new O-gauge line is called the Shalayan & Northeastern (The Shalayan Route)I
got the name from a layout design book that advised against cute, family names like the PS&P(Patrick, Shalayan, & Patty) Bingo!!
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Posted by tgovebaker on Monday, November 21, 2005 2:47 PM
The Grand Lake (CO), Alta (UT), and Truckee (CA) serves the modern-era Mountain West, though rolling stock somewhere makes it elsewhere. If you see a Center Flow hopper or modern 50' foot box car with GLAT markings, its one of ours.

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Posted by jimsandman on Monday, November 21, 2005 2:55 PM
Bankruptcy bound RR[:D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 21, 2005 3:58 PM
"Grandad's trains", so I guess that would make it the GTRR. Joe
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Posted by Big_Boy_4005 on Monday, November 21, 2005 4:37 PM
My railroad is very closely based on the real raliroads of the Twin Cities. The name is not very clever, but it is desctiptive. If you haven't figured it out yet, it's in every post I make.[;)]
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Posted by siberianmo on Monday, November 21, 2005 8:45 PM
Can-Am is the name - HO is the scale. My railroad is set in a place where Via Rail and Amtrak operate together on dual mainlines. BC Rail and Via Rail RDCs run the mountain division. Can-Am City is where Union Station is located. CP and CN are the freight haulers, but passenger railroading is "boss." The origin of the name should be fairly evident by now! [swg]

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Posted by FJ and G on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 6:48 AM
The name of a previous pike (2 pikes ago) was Tequilla Sunrise.

The name was derived from the sunrise backdrop and purple mountains (backlit by the sunrise) and the tequilla was from the juice that the tracklayers enjoyed drinking.

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