My Dad and my Uncle both worked on the Pennsylvania Railroad years ago, my Uncle was a steam engine engineer during world war two, my dad came home from the Navy after WW2 and got a job as a brakeman.My Uncle ran a lot of K4's and Many of them pulled the trains my Dad worked on, and my first HO steam engines were K4's, thus the name "TheK4Kid".My avatar came from a picture I bought several years ago, of the legendary races between the Pennsy's "Broadway Limited" and the New York Central's "20th Century Limited" coming out of Inglewood Illinois, headed east on parallel tracks, headed for Indiana.
The picture is named "Steel, Steam and Thunder"Dad and my Uncle both said that the races betweeen these trains sometimes got above 100 miles per hour.On occasion they both came out of the Inglewood area about the same time of day, and both railraods were very competitive for good PR, and the "occasional races" were good for this.
Mine is the license plate on my streetrod. It's very low, in fact it's "in the weeds". Marty
Well, "Arjay1969" comes from a username I've used forever, "Arjay", and my year of birth. As for where "arjay" comes from, it's my first and middle initials, made into a word.
As for the Laughing Hippie, well....
See, back in 1999, a bunch of my friends got together and chartered the caboose on the Cumbres and Toltec. One of them bought the cab ride, and was in the cab when the engineer spotted me climbing aboard with my long hair. The engineer immediately asked "Did you see that G-D-M-F'in HIPPIE climbing on the caboose???" Well, from that day forward, my nickname was "F'in Hippie", or just "Hippie". Of course, most forums won't allow me to use the TRUE form of the nickname, so "Laughing Hippie" it is.
Robert Beaty
The Laughing Hippie
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The CF-7...a waste of a perfectly good F-unit!
Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the
end of your tunnel, Was just a freight train coming
your way. -Metallica, No Leaf Clover
I got mine from my radio station disc jockey days....boy were they fun at time and the people i met..:)
Bob Berger, C.O.O. N-ovation & Northwestern R.R. My patio layout....SEE IT HERE
There's no place like ~/ ;)
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
Claymore - My Family has its roots in Scotland and I am a big fan of Medieval weaponry.1977 - First Apple Computer, First Star Wars debut and I was born ;)
Dave Loman
My site: The Rusty Spike
"It's a penny for your thoughts, but you have to put your 2 cents in.... hey, someone's making a penny!"
Eriediamond wrote:Guess!!
How many guesses do we get?
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
TA462 wrote: Brandon, post some pics of the 69.
Here you go!
Would you believe that they actually trust me, a 17 year-old, with this beauty? Yep!
Otto Ray Sing wrote:Printer that brings back some memories. That same year I had a chopped 52 Harley. Unfortunately it was also the bike I learned to ride on. It had a hand shifter on the left side of the tank that I'm not sure whether it was original, or if it was somebody's idea of a sick joke. It ruined me for bikes, and after I sold it, I've never been on one. I do enjoy a well built bike, and yours looks sharp.
Spidge=Southern Pacific in Dads Garage. I am the dad.
John
My user name here comes from the Occam's Razor theory, which essentially when boiled down is, the most logical cause for something is the factual cause. You see it used a lot in cryptozoology as a supporting argument. I first came across the term when writing a school paper some years ago about sasquatch (the class was a Pacific Northwest history course), and they used it in the sense of so many people see SOMETHING over such a wide range, that there must be SOMETHING there. I thought the theory (Occam's Razor, not sasquatch) made a lot of sense, so when it came time to register for a forum name here I thought why not?
Mine is rather complicated.....or not so. You see my wife is an avid dragon collector,heck any kind ,color,shape or size for that matter. So while I was trying to think of a name for my steel mill....ding the light went off in my head.
1. I get the wife into my hobby by naming my steel mill after her hobby. By the way this didn't work.
2. She gets into my hobby and doesn't nag me about all the money I spend on my hobby.This didn't work either.
3. I get a cool name for my steel mill and the wife still doesn't have anything to do with my hobby.
So this is how I got my MR forum name. Dragon River Steel Corp......................
Patrick
Beaufort,SC
DRSC
Fear an Ignorant Man more than a Lion- Turkish proverb
Modeling an ficticious HO scale intergrated Scrap Yard & Steel Mill Melt Shop.
Southland Industrial Railway or S.I.R for short. Enterchanging with Norfolk Southern.
As far as nicknames are concerned, I am named after my father and when I grew up we lived in the south- So everyone here now knows I spent my early years called junior, which implies that you're a smaller version of someone else. My father and I were nothing alike ... More on that story later...
As far as my user name... ( One of my favorite subjects ) My railroad, The Penneburgh, Briarwood, and Jameson Railroad or the P.B. & J. This is simple and complex all at once which makes for a great story, and all railroaders real, imagined, or modeled should be good storytellers.
The P. B. & J. first these are classic letters, but my railroad should not be confused with the sandwich of the same name. My kids love this, and I think that the letters of the railroad on some of their clothes and the fact that I make it a family affair for them is one reason I am allowed to budget as much money to the railroad as I am. ... More on that too.
Penneburgh's five and dime was the store that soldtrains in our little town, owner's long deceased. Some of the kindest people you ever met. Briarwood is the stock from which some of the finest pipes are made, and I am James' Son.
I hope this cleares the smoke so to speak.
CP5415
CP = Canadian Pacific
5415 = the # of the first locomotive I bought after getting back into the hobby which happens to be an Athearn CP Rail SD40-2
Gordon
Brought to you by the letters C.P.R. as well as D&H!
K1a - all the way
I use this screenname (sometimes with extra numbers) on all the other forums I frequent. I also use it as a screenname on the rare occasions I play online video games. It's a lyric from one of my favorite songs, "Ruin," by one of my favorite metal bands, Lamb of God.
A true friend will not bail you out of jail...he will be sitting next to you saying "that was friggin awesome dude!" Tim...Modeling the NYC...is there any other?
Mine doesn't move.......it's at the station!!!