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Oops, getting back to this thread a little late. Missed it, somehow. Where do these names come from? My imagination or elsewhere. I'm not the stickler for prototypical accuracy that some are and nitpickers will never be able to tell me that the hardware store is on the wrong side of the street in that town. Muddy Creek, as I said was the original name of the town I grew up in until sometime in the late 1800's some town bigwig changed it to the totally pretentious name of Pearl River. I always liked the name and gave it to my layouts as they were built and abandoned over the years. The new N scale Muddy Creek will be loosely based on Saranac Lake, where the D&H and the NYC both had tracks at one time. Ranakena is the name of the N Scale town with the sawmill and the Tofu plant, a combination of my vegetarian daughter's name and Wanakena, a small logging/sawmill town up here in the Adirondacks. Tiger Hill is a nickname I'm told the D&H oldtimers called Lyon Mountain a former iron mining community just north of here. Robyn Lake will be a resort community with a small, private sanitarium, named after my psychologist daughter. Naming areas of your layout for family members or friends often offers up suggestions for businesses & scenes that suit that individual. Wayne
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