Did you give your layout a name? If so what, & why.

[wyomingscout]

I got back into model railroading a couple of years ago with my next to youngest grandson.  Even though it isn't a large layout, we didn't have a lot of money to add on, so it is the "Day, Late, and Dollar" Short Line.

wyomingscout

[mersenne6]

Ophir and Oblivion - Because it does cost money and, since it is always a carpet central, oblivion is its terminus.  The short name is Oh Oh! which is what my wife usually says when she sees something running that she didn't recall seeing before. 

[dougdagrump]

No name on the indoor "O" but the "G" out in the yard is the SP & DW RR.

Sago Palm

 

Dry Wash

 

 

Unfortunately it is in need of some new ballasting and revised track work.

[Blueberryhill RR]

Don,

Blueberryhill RR....To be honest with you, I have always liked that song. I also live on a hill with blueberries growing on it. I thought it sounded neat. I'd love to have a car with the name on it.

[cnw1995]

Great names! I especially like Bob Keller's. I focus less on naming the layout itself (Sodor Island Railway) than naming every possible thing on it - usually for my friends ie Fortner Yard; Baker Field; Eagles Ridge, etc. Railways named everything! Then I have to make more little signs.  My next layout will be more 'prototypical' insofar as it'll follow a track plan for the Merioneth and Llantisilly Railway Traction Company Ltd. 

[KRM]

Don,

 For now it is the KMN&A Flat Line. Primarily because it has the first initials of my name and my grand-kids in the order of their birth and the layout is flat. I may have to change it when I do an addition with a raised area or more grand-kids come along. 

 

[Texas Pete]

Tuxedo Junction

Here's why: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBTYcqtaOjg

Pete

[Northwoods Flyer]

The Blueboard Central Division of American Flyer Lines  was always intended to be a temporary layout to give me some place to run the trains that I have been collecting over the years.   In its early days it also served as a place to display the trains I didn't have up on the walls.  The earliest incarnation had a loop of Wide Gauge track on the outside, but it quickly became an all Narrow Gauge layout.

 

 I have always enjoyed when folks give their layout a name, history and personality.  As I got involved with posting on SPF and other places I thought it would be fun to do the same for my display layout.  So the natural name seemed to be the most obvious.  The entire layout is built on 2" blue styrofoam, hence Blueboard Central.  And of course my collecting is primarily focused on American Flyer trains.  Chicago Flyer trains, both Wide and Narrow gauge, are almost all marked with American Flyer Lines so the rest of the name was easy.  It  is connected to the Milwaukee Road at some point, just like the city where I live, Wausau Wisconsin was a stop on the Valley Line of the Milwaukee Road.  Over the years I've had fun posting stories about the growth and development of the railroad and some of the interesting charaters whose lives are influenced by it.  I suppose I could have named it the Lake Woebegone Northern.

Thanks for asking Don.

Enjoying the World's Greatest Hobby

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

[Bob Keller]

The Cynosure Division of the New York Central.

Cynosure is a place in the comic book Grim Jack where all times and realities intersect - hence on my railroad the NYC is a transcon line and the Pennsy is a minor subsidiary!

[dbaker48]

More curious than anything, Was wondering how many have given names to their layout.

Mine is the "KC & D Railway"  When I was working on the design of my layout, and trying to get "buy-in" from my wife, I thought the name might help.  (Silly thought!)  The acronym is Kay, Chris, & Don Railway.  I do have to admit I liked the annunciation of KC.  Obviously, I got "buy-in", I'm sure it wouldn't have mattered what the name is, or if it even had one.

Interested in hearing others.