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Posted by steemtrayn on Sunday, August 5, 2007 6:07 PM
Vandelay Industries, makers of latex products.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 5, 2007 3:06 PM

Lastdrop's Elevator Supply

  "We have it up to here!"

If you like, you can use it. I invented this for one of my structures some months ago.

Tightwad's Warehousing

  "A hoarding facility for your stuff."

Fullboxum's Textile Company

  "With abundance of quality in our materials!"

Drafty's Window Manufacturing

  "Our products chill the competition."

Makework's Stationary Supply

  "We fill Offices to Overflowing!"

Monumental Supply Works

  "Folks are dying for our business!"

LePhew's Plumbing Supply

  "A flush beats a full house!"

Flatfoot's Boot Company

  "We will go the last mile!"

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 5, 2007 1:51 PM

All these great names! I haven't a chance!Big Smile [:D]
 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Sunday, August 5, 2007 1:45 PM
 jfallon wrote:
loathar, I have made a Sofa King billboard for my layout! Quality Sofa King good! Prices Sofa King low! Financing Sofa King easy!
Now that's funny!

Running Bear, Sundown, Louisiana
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Space Mouse for president!
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Running Bear Enterprises
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Posted by jfallon on Sunday, August 5, 2007 1:42 PM
loathar, I have made a Sofa King billboard for my layout! Quality Sofa King good! Prices Sofa King low! Financing Sofa King easy!

If everybody is thinking alike, then nobody is really thinking.

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Posted by Greg H. on Sunday, August 5, 2007 12:19 PM

Acme School Cafeteria Mystery Meat Company

"You don't know what it is, and we promise not to tell"

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Posted by loathar on Sunday, August 5, 2007 11:11 AM
Sofa King. "Our prices are SofaKing low!"
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Posted by jfallon on Sunday, August 5, 2007 8:10 AM
With the mirror in the middle, you could name the company MAXXAM, and just mount the billboard letters MAX at the mirror. They could be the printing shop for a publisher of one of those PG-13 "men's" magazinesWhistling [:-^] that receives boxcars of paper rolls and ink. The cow pasture would supply their editorial content!

If everybody is thinking alike, then nobody is really thinking.

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Posted by dragenrider on Sunday, August 5, 2007 12:06 AM

Finicky Fasteners---Home of the unscrew! 

Pandora's Box Company

Keibler Elf Wear

 

 

The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!

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Posted by C&O Fan on Saturday, August 4, 2007 9:20 PM

 Gandy Dancer wrote:
What era is this?

!950/60

TerryinTexas

See my Web Site Here

http://conewriversubdivision.yolasite.com/

 

 

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Posted by jeffrey-wimberly on Saturday, August 4, 2007 8:19 PM
Terry's security and warning systems.

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Posted by jbinkley60 on Saturday, August 4, 2007 8:13 PM

 

Wellstone Freight

Cumberland Cargo

Appalachia Shipping & Receiving

Huntington Hardware

Monongahela Mining

New River Transportation

 

Engineer Jeff NS Nut
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Posted by wrconstruction on Saturday, August 4, 2007 7:12 PM
we have a bid co here in Carlisle, PA call The Frog, Switch, & Manufacturing Co. they make, well, frogs, and switches.......
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Posted by Milepost 266.2 on Saturday, August 4, 2007 6:38 PM
Hmm, outside of Charleston along the C&O...

MacCorkle Storage

Captol Manufacturing

Byrd Sausage Company (for like, you know, pork products)

Dunbar Distributing

Goodwin Manufacturing



If it's set in the modern era, SPACE AVAILABLE FOR LEASE might be the best sign to put on it.
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Posted by Gandy Dancer on Saturday, August 4, 2007 5:57 PM
What era is this?
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Posted by MisterBeasley on Saturday, August 4, 2007 2:48 PM

Ditch the cows and put in sheep.  Make the building a Haggis factory.  Half of it could be the Wooley Bully Sweater Company.

If you have room elsewhere for an icing station, then you could have a 2-stop industry with ice-bunker reefers and either produce or some kind of meat product.

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by Greg H. on Saturday, August 4, 2007 2:26 PM
Turn you farm into a feed lot, and the building can become the place where they make White Castle frozen hamburgers, or Dinty Moore beef stew, or even Banquet Salisbury Steak TV dinners
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Posted by pbjwilson on Friday, August 3, 2007 9:27 PM
Grosse Fleisch Sausage Co. - "Our Wurst is our Best"
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Posted by PB&J RR on Friday, August 3, 2007 8:49 PM

Well some real world names come to mind from here in Springfield, Ohio... Crowell and Collier Publishers, long out of business. or William Bailey and Co., A maker of annealed steel correctional facility door and window fixtures.

Other than that-

I. P. Nightly- a maker of daybeds.

Huo Flun dung- Oriental wallpaper factory

Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe- Attorney's at law.

Discreet Eructations- a gag factory

Aunt Vickies- adult delights

R. K. Flatter Press and Stamping

its late I need a drink...

J. Walt Layne President, CEO, and Chief Engineer Penneburgh, Briarwood & Jameson Railroad.
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Posted by tomikawaTT on Friday, August 3, 2007 8:48 PM

In a completely different direction...

Your building reminded me of two examples with a single name, one prototype and one historical model railroad:

  • Prototype, overlooking New York City's Sunnyside Yard, and
  • Profile model, on Frank Ellison's Delta Lines.

The name?  Sunshine Bakeries.  (Sunshine, from the thousand window bakery.)

Chuck (who just dated himself terribly!)

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Posted by Rob2112 on Friday, August 3, 2007 8:35 PM

How about

"Fantastic Plastics", " R. U. Board Cardboard", "Text Me Textiles", "R. U. Leaky Plumbing Supply"

Boy... you could go on and on here... Smile [:)]

 

Good Luck!

Rob

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Posted by Conrail5 on Friday, August 3, 2007 8:21 PM

How about

 Lou Vers' Blinds & shades

 

Empire under construction !

The early bird catches the worm.

But, the second mouse gets the cheese!

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Posted by lvanhen on Friday, August 3, 2007 8:13 PM

How about this?Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by WCfan on Friday, August 3, 2007 8:08 PM

(Insert drection where building is located[North, south, East, West, Midtown, DownTown ect.]) Botteling Co.

How about, Mullen's Cheese. (Business in Knolton [Spelling?] WI.)

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Posted by inch53 on Friday, August 3, 2007 7:51 PM
WE PLANTEM CASKET Co.

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/4309

DISCLAIMER-- This post does not clam anything posted here as fact or truth, but it may be just plain funny
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Posted by Catt on Friday, August 3, 2007 7:08 PM
Catt's Litterboxes Big Smile [:D]
Johnathan(Catt) Edwards 100 % Michigan Made
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Posted by ARTHILL on Friday, August 3, 2007 6:29 PM

Building 7

 

If you think you have it right, your standards are too low. my photos http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/ARTHILL/ Art
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Posted by secondhandmodeler on Friday, August 3, 2007 5:51 PM
How about, (insert name) Rivet Counters! Unless that doesn't sound prototypical?Wink [;)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, August 3, 2007 5:31 PM

How about:

Charleston Granite, where we take you for granite

West Virginia Manufacturing, we're Union

Overunder Railroad Supplier.

 

 

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Posted by loathar on Friday, August 3, 2007 4:55 PM
 tstage wrote:

Al Mayo's Condiments Supply? 

Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D] Or Monster Railroad Mfg.Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]

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