username. Why did you pick it?

[BR60103]

I wanted a loco number in a hurry and didn't want to use the one on my bank card, [:I] so I chose the post-1948 number of Flying Scotsman.
With apologies to my friend who does business as :The Flying Scotsman".

(Flying Scotsman had 5 numbers over the years: GN 1472, LNER 4472, LNER 502, LNER 103 and BR 60103.)

[Anonymous]

I've had mine for years- it's easy to remember for all the email accounts. I took it because it's my name (Erik) and because my uncle, the family geneologist, linked my family to Erik the Navigator, aka Erik the Red.
(BTW, no one in the family managed to accomplish much after ETR... they became shepards, sea captains who sank their ships, and criminals... as well as cops!)
Erik

[SOU Fan]

last name[:)]

[alstom]

I like the "Alstom Demo" unit or GCFX 3072. I've been obssesed with it for a couple years. I use it for almost anything, so if you see alstom anywhere else, it's probably me!

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[AggroJones]

AGGROvated

[CMSTPP]

I like the Milwaukee Road alot. So the name CMSTPP is Chicago Milwaukee ST. Paul & Pacific or the Milwaukee. This was its full name.

James

[DrummingTrainfan]

I'm a drummer, and I'm a trainfan. Mine is one of those that should be self-explanatory [;)].

[ZephyrOverland]

Easy....my passion is the passenger train. I wanted a name that would cover the heavyweight and streamline eras. My interest is the passenger train from all lines and all times, from the famous ones such as the Super Chief and 20th Century Limited to the ones that don't get much press, such as the Brazil and Mudlavia Express (C&EI) and the Caribbean Mail (FEC).

[Kevin C. Smith]

"Brazil & Mudlavia Express"? I love the name! When (what years) did it run?

[ZephyrOverland]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Kevin C. Smith

"Brazil & Mudlavia Express"? I love the name! When (what years) did it run?

That's one of my favorites too. This train was operated around 1904 on the C&EI from Terre Haute to Chicago by way of the Brazil division, a route that ran north mostly in Indiana where it joined the more well known Danville route at Momence, Illinois.

[PBenham]

I am lazy. There.

[Anonymous]

My user name combines my aviation background with my love for trains. MKE is the designator for Milwaukee Mitchell Field, and RD is the contraction of Road. So, my user name stands for my favorite railroad - Milwaukee Road!

Cheers!

Joe

[ValorStorm]

I submitted a story to the "Strange New Worlds" short story contest (StarTrek) entitled "ValorStorm"... I lost. But it seemed like a good domain name for my web site (www.ValorStorm.com), and a good screen name for everything else. So why did I name my car "Mavis?"

[emddd40x]

Mine happens to be my favorite locomotive, the EMD DD40X. In the time of 2000 and 3000 hp locomotives at the end of the 70s and early 80s, the folks at EMD found a brute force solution to the horsepower game. While it couldn't handle the tight radii worth a darn it was able to start and pull the heavy trains over the mountains. While one of these trains might have required 4 to 6 SD25s or U30s on the front and another two at the back, a pair of DD40s on the lead and another on the rear could run this same train.
It wasn't until the mid 90s that EMD and GE found ways to get 4000+ hp out of their single engined units. The DD40 might not be as sleek or as sexy as the modern 4000+ hp units, but as a brute force solution, nothing could match it at the time.

[Anonymous]

For me, the UP Big Boys were the greatest machines of them all in any respect. That´s why I chose the name, though I´m German and, sadly, never have seen the Big Boys in actual service. Also, UP, for me, is my favorite US railroad system.

But, I grew up with the last of steam in Europe during the 50s, 60s and 70s and luckily managed to photograph them still in action, as well as still standing at the tracks nowadays with my camera, having improved my photographing skills more and more over the years, preferably inheriting landscape in the train-scenes. Two years ago I turned to a Digital Camera(Minolta Dimage A1, that is)...Hope I can post some of my favorites later.

Tom from West Germany