How did you name your garden railroad?

[Anonymous]

Happy Holidays to All:

The Gnome Garden Railway was suggested by my wife after she brought home five twenty inch tall garden gnomes form a local discount store.

I was leaning toward a named based on our street/city/state/country but really couldn't glue anything together. I was going to use my last name but that wasn't working out to well either, not that I have an odd name or whatever, I just couldn't decide what to do.

I figured that her suggestion was pretty good and was something I could do to get her interested and "in the boat" with me on this garden railway thing. Sometimes you have to be a diplomat. Naming the railway wasn't really a big deal as far as I was concerned and was quite happy to have her interested in it.

If the railway expands to the areas of the yard where I want it to go, a name change might be in order and the exsisting railway would be renamed the Gnome Division.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!!!

Pete

[bman36]

Hi Rene,
Named mine after the kids. L D & C Mountainview RR. Laura, David and Christen. The "Mountainview" part refers to the Duck Mountains here in Manitoba. Next addition will be the "Pine Ridge Logging Co." Later eh...Brian.

[Anonymous]

Well, mine started out around the Christmas tree, and the cats and dog were always causing problems with it. The cowcatcher was never meant to deal with some of the things that ended up in the vicinity of the track. When I moved outside, it seemed natural to call it the "Hairball and Dogdrool Railway"

[Anonymous]

I named mine (well, i think this is what I'll name it) the BRRR, or Blue River Railway based on the 30 foot stream that the mainline follows in both directions around its loop, and the fact that a logging line also is located near it and winds up along and then in front of the waterfall. I have no other ideas and the river was crystal clear at the time, but has since been enveloped in huge masses of string algee.

[vsmith]

Hello Rene, and Merry Christmas to all you up in the frozen north...To everyone else, As Gumby on Saturday Night Live said "Merrdy Christdmas Dammit!"[:p]

IT WAS 80 DEGREES HERE YESTERDAY!!!!!!!!!!![8D] Mull on that while you throw another tree on the fire! Our state economy is in the toilet, but the weathers GREAT!

How did the Borracho RR get its name? My RR was originally supposed to be in a garden area behind my garage, but the missus already had her Martha Stewart plans for that area and getting the boot even with a size 5 shoe still hurts![:D]

That was going to be a mining line called the FUBAR and SNAFU RR. Two terms that come from soldiers and sailors back as far as WWII, so I wont traslate them, useless you ask really, really nice! [;)]

That layout was going to consist of about 5 buildings, the two mines, a station, water tower, and a small shed to conceal control wires.

So now I'm looking to do more Finescale type layout in the garage.I kept the mine names from above but now I lookin at a small town and either a brewery or a distillery was to be part of the layout and I wanted something funny yet not out of character for the location, a border town. [:)]

I was watching the Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon movie "The Great Race" and part of the story takes place in a brawling wild west town called "Borracho". Well the name hit me, and I decided then to call it the Borracho Railroad, and after a trip to Mexico where I got to see an old tequila distillery I came back with that as my name for the distillery. [:)]

For those who dont speak Spanish (I only pick up about 1 word out of 5) the word "borracho" means "drunkard or drunken" so the "drunkard" tequila distillery and the "drunken" railway was born. I just found the name Borracho too good to pass up. It sounds, theres a humorous sarchastic ring in the name and that appeals to me.[:o)]

Drinks are on me! Vic [:D]

[BudSteinhoff]

My name is "Myakka Valley Railway" and has been formed from living next to the Myakka State park and the area I live in is called Myakka Valley ranches.

[Rene Schweitzer]

This one should be fun. Oh, and BTW folks, I will be out of the office most of next week for the holidays so I won't post a new poll on the 26th. Happy holidays to everyone!!

Rene