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Nicknames and Usernames, how did you come by your's?

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Posted by CNCharlie on Friday, November 16, 2007 10:55 PM
 Mine came from 2 sources, the first being that I model largely CNR and my second name is Charles and the second and perhaps most important is that my grandfather worked for CNR and his name was Charlie to all who knew him. I sort of remember him taking me to the very large shops CN maintained in Winnipeg when I was about 3 or 4. I found the engines, all steam, a little frightening but exciting nonetheless. Perhaps that was when I was bitten by the RR bug.
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Posted by retsignalmtr on Friday, November 16, 2007 6:49 PM
i worked as a signal maintainer for the NYC transit for 31 years. when i retired i changed from sigmtr to retsignalmtr.
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Posted by on30francisco on Friday, November 16, 2007 3:53 PM
I chose my screen name from On30 - the scale I was modeling at the time. The Francisco part came from my middle name and the city and county of San Francisco.
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Posted by njtaxland on Friday, November 16, 2007 1:18 PM
hi, i live in NJ the land of the taxed and the poor. so that is how i came up with my nickname
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 16, 2007 1:04 PM
Well.......um..... I was trying to find something I could remember.
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Posted by TheK4Kid on Friday, November 16, 2007 12:53 PM

My  Dad and my Uncle both worked on the Pennsylvania Railroad years ago, my Uncle was a steam engine engineer during world war two, my dad came home from the Navy after WW2 and got a job as a brakeman.
My Uncle ran a lot of K4's and Many of them pulled the trains my Dad worked on, and my first HO steam engines were K4's, thus the name "TheK4Kid".
My avatar came from a picture I bought several years ago, of the legendary races between the Pennsy's "Broadway Limited" and the New York Central's "20th Century Limited" coming out of Inglewood Illinois, headed  east on parallel tracks, headed for Indiana.

The picture is named "Steel, Steam and Thunder"
Dad and my Uncle both said that the races betweeen these trains sometimes got above 100 miles per hour.
On occasion they both came out of the Inglewood area about the same time of day, and both railraods were very competitive for good PR, and the "occasional races" were good for this.

 

 

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 16, 2007 11:36 AM

Mine is the license plate on my streetrod. It's very low, in fact it's  "in the weeds". Marty

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Posted by Arjay1969 on Friday, November 16, 2007 11:30 AM

Well, "Arjay1969" comes from a username I've used forever, "Arjay", and my year of birth.  As for where "arjay" comes from, it's my first and middle initials, made into a word. Smile [:)]

 

As for the Laughing Hippie, well....

 

See, back in 1999, a bunch of my friends got together and chartered the caboose on the Cumbres and Toltec.  One of them bought the cab ride, and was in the cab when the engineer spotted me climbing aboard with my long hair.  The engineer immediately asked "Did you see that G-D-M-F'in HIPPIE climbing on the caboose???"  Well, from that day forward, my nickname was "F'in Hippie", or just "Hippie".  Of course, most forums won't allow me to use the TRUE form of the nickname, so "Laughing Hippie" it is. Laugh [(-D]

Robert Beaty

The Laughing Hippie

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Posted by luvadj on Friday, November 16, 2007 10:00 AM

I got mine from my radio station disc jockey days....boy were they fun at time and the people i met..:)

 

Bob Berger, C.O.O. N-ovation & Northwestern R.R.        My patio layout....SEE IT HERE

There's no place like ~/ ;)

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Posted by rs2mike on Friday, November 16, 2007 9:27 AM
I love the alco rs-series locos 1-4/5 + I have probable 16 rs-2 right now in various stages of being done.

alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)

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Posted by claymore1977 on Friday, November 16, 2007 7:25 AM

Claymore - My Family has its roots in Scotland and I am a big fan of Medieval weaponry.
1977 - First Apple Computer, First Star Wars debut and I was born ;)

Dave Loman

My site: The Rusty Spike

"It's a penny for your thoughts, but you have to put your 2 cents in.... hey, someone's making a penny!"

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Posted by Phoebe Vet on Friday, November 16, 2007 7:21 AM

 Eriediamond wrote:
Guess!!  Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]

How many guesses do we get?

Dave

Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow

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Posted by Eriediamond on Friday, November 16, 2007 6:32 AM
Guess!!  Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]
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Posted by myred02 on Thursday, November 15, 2007 10:19 PM

 TA462 wrote:
  Brandon, post some pics of the 69. 

Here you go!

Would you believe that they actually trust me, a 17 year-old, with this beauty? Yep!

Modeling (and railfanning) the CSX mainlines since... ah fudge I forgot! http://myred02.rrpicturearchives.net/ http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=myred02
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Posted by Printer on Sunday, September 16, 2007 10:36 AM
 Otto Ray Sing wrote:
Printer that brings back some memories.  That same year I had a chopped 52 Harley.  Unfortunately it was also the bike I learned to ride on.  It had a hand shifter on the left side of the tank that I'm not sure whether it was original, or if it was somebody's idea of a sick joke.  It ruined me for bikes, and after I sold it, I've never been on one.  I do enjoy a well built bike, and yours looks sharp.

Thanx. My Scoot was a '48, first year for Panheads. I always ran a "jockey shift". just an arm welded to the top shift gate on the tranny and a foot clutch. When my third child was born, I realized that children were really time consuming and expensive so I parted with it suffering much sobbing and wailing as she was loaded on a trailer and faded out of sight.
damn I miss that bike. and those days of my youth.

Scoot
Head Robber Baron of the Cache & Carrie Railroad *everything I own fell off a train*
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Posted by travon on Sunday, September 16, 2007 9:43 AM
Mine is in honor of my first Grandson who is five years old now, who loves trains. No. 2 grandson has his named honored on a large train site.
Travon Sacramento Valley RR in 1906, On30 DRG&W in 1890, Polar Express. If we ever forget that were one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.   -  Ronald Reagan
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Posted by Dustin on Saturday, September 15, 2007 11:27 PM
No explanation needed!
Dustin CN- Par for the course!
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Posted by spidge on Saturday, September 15, 2007 7:06 PM

Spidge=Southern Pacific in Dads Garage. I am the dad.

John

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Posted by Occams Razor on Saturday, September 15, 2007 5:15 PM

My user name here comes from the Occam's Razor theory, which essentially when boiled down is, the most logical cause for something is the factual cause.  You see it used a lot in cryptozoology as a supporting argument.  I first came across the term when writing a school paper some years ago about sasquatch (the class was a Pacific Northwest history course), and they used it in the sense of so many people see SOMETHING over such a wide range, that there must be SOMETHING there.  I thought the theory (Occam's Razor, not sasquatch) made a lot of sense, so when it came time to register for a forum name here I thought why not?

-Matt S. Modeling in HO & N
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Posted by dragonriversteel on Saturday, September 15, 2007 10:38 AM

 

  Mine is rather complicated.....or not so. You see my wife is an avid dragon collector,heck any kind ,color,shape or size for that matter. So while I was trying to think of a name for my steel mill....ding the light went off in my head.

 1. I get the wife into my hobby by naming my steel mill after her hobby. By the way this didn't work.

2. She gets into my hobby and doesn't nag me about all the money I spend on my hobby.This didn't work either.

3. I get a cool name for my steel mill and the wife still doesn't have anything to do with my hobby.

 So this is how I got my MR forum name. Dragon River Steel Corp......................

 

 Patrick

 Beaufort,SC

 DRSC

Fear an Ignorant Man more than a Lion- Turkish proverb

Modeling an ficticious HO scale intergrated Scrap Yard & Steel Mill Melt Shop.

Southland Industrial Railway or S.I.R for short. Enterchanging with Norfolk Southern.

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Posted by PB&J RR on Saturday, September 15, 2007 5:24 AM

As far as nicknames are concerned, I am named after my father and when I grew up we lived in the south- So everyone here now knows I spent my early years called junior, which implies that you're a smaller version of someone else. My father and I were nothing alike ... More on that story later...

 As far as my user name... ( One of my favorite subjects ) My railroad, The Penneburgh, Briarwood, and Jameson Railroad or the P.B. & J. This is simple and complex all at once which makes for a great story, and all railroaders real, imagined, or modeled should be good storytellers.

The P. B. & J. first these are classic letters, but my railroad should not be confused with the sandwich of the same name. My kids love this, and I think that the letters of the railroad on some of their clothes and the fact that I make it a family affair for them is one reason I am allowed to budget as much money to the railroad as I am. ... More on that too.

Penneburgh's five and dime was the store that soldtrains in our little town, owner's long deceased. Some of the kindest people you ever met. Briarwood is the stock from which some of the finest pipes are made, and I am James' Son.

I hope this cleares the smoke so to speak.

J. Walt Layne President, CEO, and Chief Engineer Penneburgh, Briarwood & Jameson Railroad.
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Posted by CP5415 on Saturday, September 15, 2007 5:09 AM

CP5415

CP = Canadian Pacific

5415 = the # of the first locomotive I bought after getting back into the hobby which happens to be an Athearn CP Rail SD40-2

Gordon

Brought to you by the letters C.P.R. as well as D&H!

 K1a - all the way

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Posted by carknocker1 on Friday, September 14, 2007 3:54 AM
I am a Carnocker   Supervisor so it only seemed proper . I am lucky ,I get to play withith Real trains by day and model trains by night . So I get the best of both worlds .
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 14, 2007 1:53 AM
Printer that brings back some memories.  That same year I had a chopped 52 Harley.  Unfortunately it was also the bike I learned to ride on.  It had a hand shifter on the left side of the tank that I'm not sure whether it was original, or if it was somebody's idea of a sick joke.  It ruined me for bikes, and after I sold it, I've never been on one.  I do enjoy a well built bike, and yours looks sharp.
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Posted by Printer on Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:12 PM
i've done the reason for my screen name but as for my nickname...
scooter...
these may help explain it.
from 1969, just before i was drafted.


from 1972, after getting out of the army.


so that's how i got called scooter.

scoot
Head Robber Baron of the Cache & Carrie Railroad *everything I own fell off a train*
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Posted by ArtOfRuin on Thursday, September 13, 2007 9:53 PM

I use this screenname (sometimes with extra numbers) on all the other forums I frequent. I also use it as a screenname on the rare occasions I play online video games. It's a lyric from one of my favorite songs, "Ruin," by one of my favorite metal bands, Lamb of God.

-Jonathan Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel, Is just a freight train coming your way - "No Leaf Clover," Metallica
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Posted by fireman216 on Thursday, September 13, 2007 9:23 PM
Easy..I'm a fireman....badge #216...

A true friend will not bail you out of jail...he will be sitting next to you saying "that was friggin awesome dude!" Tim...Modeling the NYC...is there any other?

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 13, 2007 7:48 PM
It's been almost a year since I've been here, so this looks likes as good of a place as any to reintroduce myself.  My handle is actually Otto Ray Sing which is a play off of a hobby I was into years ago.  I drove dirt track stock car in the 70's at Oskaloosa and Eldon speedways in Iowa.  At that time I lived in Oskaloosa.  I now live in Kodiak Alaska.  On some other forums there were changes in their operation which caused me to have to change my handle, and on them I'm known as Kodiak Island Modeler.
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Posted by ho modern modeler on Thursday, September 6, 2007 11:33 PM
I was looking for something that would never go out of style...

Mine doesn't move.......it's at the station!!!

 

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