Kamikaze Railroad (No round trips)
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
J Campbell wrote: I'm in the planning stages of putting together a large, freelanced, present day short line in the Pacific Northwest, yet I am having trouble coming up with a decent, creative name for it.
I'm in the planning stages of putting together a large, freelanced, present day short line in the Pacific Northwest, yet I am having trouble coming up with a decent, creative name for it.
Oh, present day. In that case, you need some tedious, meaningless 3-letter name, like "XSC" or "RZB," y'know, something without any grounding in reality. A name that marketing types would think was mahvelous for anything, from a railroad to a sports car to the secret ingredient in the new miracle drug that treats both impotence and athlete's foot.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
dinwitty wrote: I just toyed with a logo idea, a very rough hand draw, but done in one swipe draw, creates the 2 letters like so, in blue.. very simple
I just toyed with a logo idea, a very rough hand draw, but done in one swipe draw, creates the 2 letters like so, in blue.. very simple
That's pretty snazzy, too. I'll play with that one and see what I can come up with.
~ Jason
scottychaos wrote: Scot
Scot
I LOVE it!
Thanks Dude! I think it's a keeper!
Feel free to use the name of my former RR, Willammette Valley and Coast RR (WV&C), the Spruce Lumber Railroad grown up into a short line hauling lumber products, fruit and grain.
Bill
J Campbell wrote:SD80MAC he painted in the old NYC colors that I thought was pretty dope. I was thinking about doing something similar.
1. Very simple. Some solid color maybe with "V" stripes on the pilot. Letters and number on the cab.
2. Very elaborate. Some of the midwestern short line paint schemes from the mid 1980s on were outlandish and elaborate. The magazine Extra 2200 South carried photos of them. That would be an excellent reference to get a few of and look through before deciding anything.
TrainManTy wrote: Yeah! Granite River Railway!!Now we have to come up with a paint scheme!
Yeah! Granite River Railway!!
Now we have to come up with a paint scheme!
Yeah, I don't know yet. Smoke posted a pic earlier of a SD80MAC he painted in the old NYC colors that I thought was pretty dope. I was thinking about doing something similar.
Then again, I still really dig the Montana Rail Link colors too...
I dunno...maybe I should see what the court of public opinion thinks.
Granite River Railway is a lot better than anything with Thunderbird. Thunderbird is much more southwestern than it is northwestern.
Nice! I like it..
"Granite River Railway" sounds best IMO..
canazar wrote:...Sometimes it can be something rigth in front of you and not know it...
I think I finally got it!!! Indeed, it was right in front of me the whole time!
I work in the pile driving industry and I was going over some plans for an upcoming job we are bidding on. One of the structures spans a river and while looking through the soils report, I noticed there was a layer of granite at approximately -35.
THATS IT!!!
"Granite River"
What do you guys think?
Any suggestions on how I should end it? Railroad, Railway, Rail Co., etc...
Thunder Mountain and Snake River.
J Campbell wrote: canazar wrote: Where the name Kiva came from gets asked alot. Something historical? A location? A famous person? Nah, it is the name of my street that I have been living on for the last 3 years.. Sometimes it can be something rigth in front of you and not know it.Hmmm...I live on Thunderbird Road.Thunderbird Rail Co.?I'll have to play with that one...
canazar wrote: Where the name Kiva came from gets asked alot. Something historical? A location? A famous person? Nah, it is the name of my street that I have been living on for the last 3 years.. Sometimes it can be something rigth in front of you and not know it.
Hmmm...I live on Thunderbird Road.
Thunderbird Rail Co.?
I'll have to play with that one...
You guys are in GREAT company! The three most important stations on Frank Ellison's legendary Delta Lines, Colbert, Fillmore and Rochelle, were named after his home street and the two closest cross streets.
I can't see myself doing that, even if I modeled US prototype. All the streets around here have two Hispanic given names (The Carlos Ernesto and Julio Jose Western? Not!)
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
scottychaos wrote:Thanks! what did you have in mind based on the MRL scheme? colors? changes? If you give me some ideas, I can whip something up in photoshop.
what did you have in mind based on the MRL scheme? colors? changes? If you give me some ideas, I can whip something up in photoshop.
Actually, I really like the colors. In fact, I like them so much that I don't necessarily think I'll even change them. I think the only thing I would do would be to add whatever name I decide on.
It could make it easy to find pre-painted locos as well. Except for the fact that I would have to be able to color match the blue paint to cover up the old graphics. I don't think a rail company with "big money" backing it would settle for the 'ol black-out patch job.
scottychaos wrote:Whats wrong with geographically based? If your model railroad has specific geography (location).. which it does.. then "geographically based" makes a lot of sense! ;)
Yeah, I guess your right...even R.J. Corman (who I have decided over lunch, will be my pseudo-plausible prototype) seems to own/operate short lines all within the same general vicinity. I could just keep them all in the PNW.
Wow! Nice photoshop!
I'm pretty bad at names.....
Catamount Northern.
Your name train could be the "Puma".
J Campbell wrote: That's really cool, Man.I was kind of thinking about ripping off a few ideas from this paint scheme...
That's really cool, Man.
I was kind of thinking about ripping off a few ideas from this paint scheme...
Thanks!
J Campbell wrote: Which brings me to my dilemma...coming up with a name for my "rail company" that isn't necessarily so geographically based.
Whats wrong with geographically based? If your model railroad has specific geography (location).. which it does.. then "geographically based" makes a lot of sense! ;)
...and maybe something like this for a passenger line...
I'm not married to any of them yet. Still looking for ideas...all part of the fun of planning, right?
Somebody posted a link to R.J. Corman a few days ago. Apparently they're a pretty well rounded company. In addition to providing all types of rail construction services, they also run a handful of short lines.
I was thinking that might be a cool story for my line. At the very least, it would provide me with a plausible income large enough to run flashier, newer equipment.
Which brings me to my dilemma...coming up with a name for my "rail company" that isn't necessarily so geographically based.
J Campbell wrote: I want something that sounds rugged and robust, yet slightly quirky. For the life of me, I can't come up with the right moniker.
J Campbell wrote:I kinda dig "Snake River".
I like "Snake River" too! It sounds cool, and there is a real Snake River in Washington state, so its totally plusable..
You said "present day"..so im assuming modern diesels.
Color scheme for the Snake River?? an obvious choice for the Pacific NW would be green..but green doesnt work IMO with the name "Snake River"...Snake River says Red to me... with modern graphics..this is what just popped into my head:
Missouri Pacific blue scheme, with the chevrons on the nose..but replace blue with Red, and replace white with yellow..the result is this:
Modern, sleek, no-nonsense, not too flashy, but not too basic either.
(I know you werent even asking about paintschemes! but I love this kind of thing, and I had a few minutes to spare while im waiting for a program to finishing running at work..)