Screen name meaning?

[Anonymous]

Alright here is another dumb ? what is the meaning of your screen name?
Now I know some are really obvious but what made you decide to use it?

I know some are off the wall LIKE MINE. So here is my answer Polizi = police in german if it were spelled correctly . I was a cop and I am german by family heritage. it just kinda stuck.

Ok who's next????[:o)]

[Anonymous]

My screen name comes from the "Guilford" railroad and "350" is the number of a GP40 on their roster.

[Anonymous]

mine is my CB radio handle and the nickname i use on IRC. just a big ol slimy worm[:D].

i use Trainworm on all the other forums. kind of a play on bookworm, but i always have a train in my hands instaed of a book[:D]

[Anonymous]

My is my love of passenger trains
Ch

[egmurphy]

Mine means I didn't know what I was doing when I signed up and just put my initials/name as my username. [:I] Either that or it's just that I have absolutely no imagination.


Regards


Ed (not the most computer literate person on the forums.......)

[Anonymous]

My initials, and the year I was born.

[willy6]

willy6
because people call me Willy and i'm a Nascar fan and my favorite driver drives the #6 car.

[Anonymous]

My screen name comes from Amtraks Heartland Flyer[8D]

[ericsp]

It is my first name and initials of my favorite railroad. When I signed up I did it just to read the news wires, so I just came up with something. Actually, I have wonder about the meanings of a few myself.

[Anonymous]

Take a guess.......................[;)]

[dave9999]

http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?page=1&TOPIC_ID=9225 ......[:D] Dave

[Anonymous]

Unionpacific4018

I like Union Pacific
the 4018 Big boy sits at the age of steam in Dallas
I was born in Dallas
I live in Sachse 20 minutes North of Dallas
thats it

[Anonymous]

George is my middle name, It's after my great uncle who was a semi famous stage actor around Virginia beach. And 745 are three random numbers
Andrew

[IRONROOSTER]

From the Book "Ride the Ironrooster". I have never read the book but I like the name.
Enjoy
Paul

[egmurphy]

QUOTE: "Ride the Ironrooster". I have never read the book ...

You should. Paul Theroux is a great writer in general, and his railroad journey books are extra special for rail fans. Also try "The Great Railway Bazaar" and "The Old Patagonian Express".

For those of you not familiar with the book, it's full title is "Riding the Iron Rooster, By Train Through China". Written back in 1988 by Theroux. Dug out my copy. Here are a couple of very short excerpts:

"So, philosophically, the name didn't fit. But in every other respect this thing was an Iron Rooster. It squawked and crowed and seemed to flap, as steam shot out of its black boiler and it shook itself along the tracks. It was a big, clattering thing, with bells and whistles, that went its noisy and cocksure way westward, into the desert of what used to be called Turkestan."

and...

"I was eating dinner in the empty dining car at about eight that night when we came to Jiayuguan. What I saw out the window is printed on my mind: in the summer dusk of the Gobi Desert, a Chinese town lay glowing in the sand, and rising above it, ten stories high, was the last gate in the Great Wall - the Jia Yu Watchtower - a fortresslike structure with pagoda roofs; and the train slowed at the Wall's end, a crumpled pile of mud bricks and ruined turrets the wind had simplified and sucked smooth. In the fading light of day, there was this ghostly remainder of the Great Wall, and what looked like the last town in China."


Regards

Ed

[fec153]

I lived close to the FEC yard in Medley and the 153 was the loco that brought out many of the survivors of the 'cane that destroyed the overseas rr to Key West. It is on static display with the 113 at the Gold Coast RR Museum in south Dade county.
Fla.Phil

[Anonymous]

My tattoo, and the year I was born[:I]

[GDRMCo]

Great Dividing Range Mining Company. It is a RR I made up when I was 6.

[twhite]

TWhite? My first initial and last name. Actually, I was going to go with something really cryptic like L-131 or L-105 or AC-6 or M3-2-8-8-4, which are my favorite articulateds, but I figured what the Heck, just make it simple, if not for everyone else, at least for yourself, just in case you forgot WHAT locomotive you were feeling like on a particular day.

[Hawks05]

Hawks is the nickname of my school. we're the Blackhawks, but Hawks is what's on all our jersey's and what not. and 05 is the year i graduate (senior this year) and 5 is my lucky number to.

[sparkingbolt]

Sparkingbolt is the early Engli***erm for spark plug.

There is an automotive website I logged onto and needed a name, everything else automotive I liked of was taken. Then I remembered a friend telling me that little peice of trivia, I tried it and it worked. Dan

[rexhea]

Mine required a lot of thought and imagination. Middle name (that I go by), first three letters of my last name. It used to be part of an old email address. WOW! Impressive, yes? [:D]

Actually, like ED, I didn't know any different. When I saw all the orginality used in the names, I tried to change it and couldn't. [:D][:D]

REX

[krump]

nickname - from many moons ago

polizi: I THOUGHT so...

745: are those really random numbers ???[;)][:D]

[Anonymous]

My middle initial and my nickname...

[Anonymous]

The Muddy Creek Railroad. A fictional shortline, this time set in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. A previous MCRR layout was set in the Catskill Mountains and loosely based on the Ulster & Delaware. The real Muddy Creek, however, was the original name of the town I grew up in along the New York, New Jersey border. A perfectly good, descriptive name that the town fathers saw fit to change to the utterly pretentious name of Pearl River long before I came on the scene. I'd have voted for the more honest moniker.

Wayne.

[Anonymous]

Butte, Anaconda & Pacific, a shortline that I saw daily when I was growing up.



John

[CP5415]

CP5415

CP it might me obvious --- Canadian Pacific
5415 is the unit # on the first locomotive I bought when I returned to the hobby which is on an Athearn BB SD40-2 in the dual flag livery.

Gordon

[Fergmiester]

Ferg from Fergus my First name. And Fergmiester was a nickname one of my shipmates gave me years ago. I've also been called Ferginator but that's another story.

[Anonymous]

It' s just the initial of my first name followed by my last name. At first I wondered why we needed to "sign up" to participate in these forums, but I suppose it's a way for the host(s) to control who has access when things get out of hand. To me this is just another way to share info and ideas, but I suspect some folks read a lot more than that into it. Hey! We're all in this together.

[SSW9389]

SSW9389 is the reporting mark for Cotton Belt's Bicentennial locomotive. I like the United States and the Cotton Belt. Oh, I was born on the Fourth of July too. Sort of all fits me some how.