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What's nice is that freelanced model railroads seem to have elevated out of the "humorous name" and "fanciful paint" levels of 30+ years ago when I started. If you get out the venerable 101 Track Plans, any two words with an "&" between them were a railroad name. All of the names that have been posted above seem reasonable and possible, some give a geographic hint (if we didn't know, where would we think CSX ran???) and some have mentioned that "my railroad isn't real, but I run it as if it was. More power to the guys and gals who model their prototype very accurately, but I bet the best of 'em can only get about 10 or 20 scale miles into their layout, even in HO or N. I have fun not only doing "the backstory," but managing my railroad in a fiscally responsible way -- all EMD (one set of parts), four axle locos (simpler, SD's not needed in the Midwest), no turbos (cheaper, simpler for the mechanics, simple paint (cheaper than fancy), as little deferred maintainance as possible (it's easier to fix small problems) -- so it seems unified and likely. Industries reflect the midwestern setting, even schedules are leisurely. This is not a high-intensity railroad. While I honor friends with structure names, I keep the humor somewhat restrained or "coded" because even John Allen said he got tired of the "Gory and Defeated" pun fairly quickly, but by then it was famous. "Sam 'n' Ella's Dinette" is about as bad as it gets... This may not get it for others, but it's just what I want. Bill M
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