What is the name of your railroad?

[Anonymous]

Hi
I am also just getting started . I live in the south of France and I have only american material.
I think for name " USFR" like "USA-South France Railway"

What do you think of that ? in't a good idea ?

Thanks

[BudSteinhoff]

My railway is 5 years old and is named Myakka Valley Railway.
It has about 1200 foot of track a. 30 turnouts, mostly parking.
The majority of track is on trestles due to the high water that rises several times a year.

[Anonymous]

dlmartz

I was just re-reading these railroad names and your post caught my eye.
After reading your post four or five times I finally cought on to your play on words, the spelling of the word "BARE".
I once knew a couple, about fifteen years ago, who were also nudists and model railroaders ("N" scale). They went to their club on week ends, do you actually live at yours year-round?

OLD DAD

[RhB_HJ]

Ours is called "RhB layout Grischun".

The "RhB" is specific enough (many MRR have at least a passing aquaintance with that prototype) and "layout Grischun" allows enough leeway to have an amalgam of things from the Grisons.

BTW the HOm incarnation had the same name. Even on that one there were "freelanced" stations on the "might have been" theory. That allowed for additional industries in places that are little more than a passing siding on the proto. It also allowed to move a station to the other side of the river and have it perfectly plausible. Especially as the exact km point was indicated on the timetables.[;)]

Same principle will apply on the 2m layout.

[Anonymous]

I live in Northern Virginia near Dulles Airport in a town called Reston. My (yet to be built) outdoor railroad, a Colorado-style narrow gauge, circa 1903, is the:

Dulles & Reston Garden Weeds Railroad, nicknamed "The Dandy Line"

(Get it? Dandelion - a weed?)

This way I can use many comercially available "D&RGW" models and decals without much modification and avoid a guilty conscience for lack of strict adherence to prototype.

Jack Thompson
Reston, Virginia

[Anonymous]

i need a map of the tracks the royal blue line traveled si i can seet it up out side

[toenailridgesl]

I quote from Chapter 1 in "The Saga of the Toenail Ridge Shortline":
The right-of-way ran thru mostly undulating country until it came to an un-named granite and basalt range. The survey team investigated a number of alternate routes to get the line past this obstruction, but short of a twenty mile detour, they determined that the only way thru was a ledge blasted out of the cliff face with the line clinging precariously above a sheer drop, a cliff so steep that it looked like an artificial stone wall. The head surveyor noted in his day journal "It is my opinion that the only way we will get a locomotive past this ridge is by the engineer holding on with his toenails." Thus the name Toenail Ridge was born.

[Anonymous]

B.AND J. RAIL ROAD ,AFTER MY FIRST NAME AND MY WIFES FIRST NAME BEN ,AND JEAN [2c] BEN

[Anonymous]

Hi al
I borrowed the name of the the old WAGR narrow gauge railway that used to run to my home town.
so mine is the Eastern Goldfields Railway which is also where I live the Eastern Goldfields of West Australia I concider it to be a private company that conects with the
WAGR and the Numbat Valley Tramway the NVT only just exists at the moment where as the EGR can run trains
If I can talk some sense into a friend of mine it will also
Connect to the Napier Hills Timber Mining and Light railway company
the NHTM&LRC only egsists as a name I came up with when my friend was talking about a garden railway and he and his lady like it but where not that keen on post office red Coaches which has since become the EGR coach Livery
regards John

[Anonymous]

The name of my railroad in consruction is the Great Smokey Mountain Railroad.
It was named after the famous tourist railroad from Dilsdoro NC to Andrews. But I recreated history. The linhe runs from Gatlinburg through Pireon forge to Seveirville Tennessee in the Smokey Mountains.

Nicholas Parker

[Anonymous]

Let me make a correction.

I ment Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

Nicholas Parker

[Junctionfan]

If I can get the house I am looking for I going to call mine the Great Lakes and Atlantic Railroad. A modern layout that will be some what big. My history is in 2005 a number of shortlines in Canada and the US consolidated into one railroad. This included Indiana Harbor Belt, Erie Joliet Eastern, Goderich Exeter, Trillium Railways, Rochester Southern, Massachusetts Centreal, Green Mountain Railroad. In 2009 they sucessfully completed a double track mainline from Chicago to Detroit. They also rebuilt the Detroit Tunnel and remade the old Wabash line that went along Lake Erie in Canada to Buffalo. They built a bridge across the Niagara River into Tonawanda eventually to connect into the CSX Belt line which was to be purchased a year later. Until that time the G&A railroad ran mostly steel trains between Chicago and Hamilton, Autoparts trains from Buffalo to Detroit and manifest trains between Chicago and Buffalo. In 2011 the G&A aquired the line running from Niagara Falls NY to Albany. In 2016 they built a line which nearly backrupted them from Albany to Worchester Massachusetts. In 2018 they ran their first intermodal train between Chicago and Boston. In 2019, they ran intermodals between Chicago-Buffalo, Chicago-Toronto, Chicago-Rochester (triple crown) and Detroit-Albany. In 2026 they ran 200 trains a day of which 50 were mainline runs. In 2030 the G&A purchased running rights to run into New York on CSX River Line. My railroad would simulate the CSX River Line in 2030 with G&A trains, CSX and Amtrak. I just wish by the time I can afford it some one will bring out Autoracks and more containers in G as in HO. I would also like to see P42 and AC6000CW engines.

[Anonymous]

Well I have never cared for the past even regurgitating it and calling it the future. As the past is the past and theirs not much you can do about it as much as you might like too. I have named my railway for the present and the future. I live on Kawana Island and that is in Queensland in the tropics, so i call it Kawana Island tropical railway, even using our Australian idiom of Railway and not Railroad as I live in Australia not the USA.

Howver I was going to add botanical to the name as I like to run my trains through flowers, ferns and the like as that is how I think the world should be.

Regards ian

[nalts]

I'm still in the early idea stage of my RR. I'm leaning toward the Snake River Railroad. The Snake River runs through our land that we affectionally call the Snake River Ranch, hench the name.

Chris

[Anonymous]

hi y'all,
my railway is named after a sea-side mine railway in wales (england) and is called the
levant mine railroad, or lvrr,
hope you like it,
me[?]

[Anonymous]

I think mine will have to have a Mexican theme so I can justify calling it
the 'COSTA LOTTA RR'[:)]
Cheers,
Kim
[tup]

[jmozz]

Middle bay juction jmozz

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by kimbrit

I think mine will have to have a Mexican theme so I can justify calling it
the 'COSTA LOTTA RR'[:)]
Cheers,
Kim
[tup]

Sunday I went to Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico and got a good view of Northern Mexican Railroading. You are going to have to do a lot to dpulicate the lack of maintenance. The railroad lacked signals, was overgrown with weeds and brush (to the point of looking abandonded-it was only a passing train that dispelled this belief).

In times past I have seen families living in old sidetracked Maintenance of Way coaches (?) complete with lassos, clotheslines for washing . Seems like an unusual attempt at public housing.

[Anonymous]

I was going to use the same name for our garden railroad that I used for our HO layout in the basement, but that idea was nixed by my wife and daughter.

They started me off in garden railroading in 87 with gifts of trains, etc and so they declared they had the right to name the garden RR. The name given is the "Fawn Hill & Stepney Railroad". Fawn Hill is the area of our town where we live and Stepney is located on the other side of town.

George

[Anonymous]

I loved Costalotta, just great

ian

[Anonymous]

Thanks Ian, it will probably turn into 'Costa Lotta More' before I've done!!
We've hit 15 degrees by the way - positively tropical!
Cheers,
Kim
[tup]

[Anonymous]

Life-like

[Anonymous]

Kimbrit
I agree with you , IT COSTA LOTTA MORE and your never done, you go to train shows and get to many ideas and see to many goodies. ben ----of---- penna. [:D][:D]

[vsmith]

Sticking to the Mexican theme wouldnt COSTA LOTTA MORRO be a little more subtle and subversive?

[Wild Bill]

I was thinkin' of "Eastern Sierra Nevada Desert Railroad" A consolidation of old Southern Pacilfic, Union Pacific, And Virginia and Truckee right of ways Serving Reno, Virginia City, Yerington, Carson City, and several desert comunties around the area.
The fictional back story: It is the late forties, and farming, as well as the mines, have all boomed after the war, and there are many abandoned roads. ESNDRR bought all this up and exsist as a trunk line for both UP, and SP, and operate mostly on the old Virginia and Truckee RR right of ways that it bought up before it went under. They lease trackage to the UP, And SP, so you can see SP, UP, and V&T rolling stock on it at any time! Some right of ways are truly spectacular, crossing desert, through mountains, around lakes, crossing farmland, and going to several mines. Lots of industry to serve here!
Name was selected by chance. A ceremoney was held for the signing of the incorporation papers. As the president of this new and daring enterprise signed the documents, and the railroad became a reality, He stated " May good fortune and saftey rule our future, and may no man put us under!" (ESNDRR)
Wild Bill

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Wild Bill

I was thinkin' of "Eastern Sierra Nevada Desert Railroad" A consolidation of old Southern Pacilfic, Union Pacific, And Virginia and Truckee right of ways Serving Reno, Virginia City, Yerington, Carson City, and several desert comunties around the area.
The fictional back story: It is the late forties, and farming, as well as the mines, have all boomed after the war, and there are many abandoned roads. ESNDRR bought all this up and exsist as a trunk line for both UP, and SP, and operate mostly on the old Virginia and Truckee RR right of ways that it bought up before it went under. They lease trackage to the UP, And SP, so you can see SP, UP, and V&T rolling stock on it at any time! Some right of ways are truly spectacular, crossing desert, through mountains, around lakes, crossing farmland, and going to several mines. Lots of industry to serve here!
Name was selected by chance. A ceremoney was held for the signing of the incorporation papers. As the president of this new and daring enterprise signed the documents, and the railroad became a reality, He stated " May good fortune and saftey rule our future, and may no man put us under!" (ESNDRR)
Wild Bill

Wild Bill, you are a railroader after my own heart! Visit my site below, I have not solidified by backstory yet, but I do have some such material on my Passenger Coach and shop pages.

[TheJoat]

Mine is the Jackson & Burke Railway. Named mostly because I wanted something to tie in with my wife Jean, and myself - Bruce. So, the J&B RR.
More info over on my home page

[Anonymous]

1) Skagit Valley Lines - a narrow guage conglomerate

2) Sloan Timber Company - a logging line

[Anonymous]

When rewiring a real caboose to a 12 and 120 volt operation, a know-it-all conductor inquired why we were increasing the size of the wire. After a brief explaination of watts and current, he exclaimed, "WATTS DON'T MATTER!".
Hence the beginnings of a G scale railroad known as WDMRR

[Anonymous]

hello the name of my rr is (its going be ) hopefully
A@R IS ANGELS RULES EXPRESS
THANKS pansy