Nicknames and Usernames, how did you come by your's?

[SqueakyWheels]

Mine kind of gives me away:

 

Grumpy old TROLL- ER I mean MAN!

[on30francisco]

I decided on mine because I modeled On30 and live in San Francisco, hence, On30francisco.

[SteamFreak]

I suppose it's self-explanatory, because I've always been nuts about steam locos. I'd seen plenty of trains as a young kid, but the bug didn't bite until I rode the Durango & Silverton at the age of six.

I came up with it 3 or 4 years ago when I was trying to sign up with Trains.com to read some of their articles, but all of my better choices were already taken. I wish I'd rethought it when I signed up for the forum, but I can't change iron horses in midstream now. I'll leave it up to all of you to decide if the 'freak' part fits.

[0-6-0]

Hello  my dads first train was a mdc 0-6-0 and he gave the same train to me and it was my first train. So I took the 0-6-0 for my user name.Thanks frank

[Walter Clot]

I ran this thread in the spring of 06.  I'm glad its back.  I found it interesting.  My name came from my name.  When I was signing up, I didn't realize I could use something else.  The last name is pronounced "Clo" which rhmes with "depot." 

[loathar]

Loather , Really ? I thought it was Loath her . Like in Loath her ex wife . You just never know.

That's hysterical!! I never thought of it that way! (that works too I guess!)

I spell it Loath A r

 

[ShadowNix]

Nix = nothing, so my name is the "shadow of nothing"... basically an ol' hacker handle I have had since the 80's...

Brian

[Anonymous]

I took my user name from a road that I pass rather often- Foul Rift
Rd. It's unusual and the more I thought about the more I liked it. It
is also the name of my under construction switching district.

There
is another  road with an unusual name but it is way too long to be
used-Shades of Death Road. No joke this name is for real. It is so
unusual that the street sign has been stolen more than a dozen times.
That event even made it to our local newspaper. Bob

[inch53]

Inch was a nickname I got in Boy Scout's, when a guy from another troop couldn't remember my name [Myles] and it stuck for a long time. The 53, the year I was hatched.

My CB handle is, pinball, hung on me because I use to bounce from one project to another.

[CAZEPHYR]

 

The California Zephyr inspired my User name.

 

I am not a cowboy, I just found the hat!!

 

Cheers

[Gandy Dancer]

Mrs. Beasley, by the way, was the name of the little girl's doll in some old sit-com that I didn't watch.

Yup, that is what I think of every time I see your name on a post.  That sitcom would be "Family Affair". 

[SOU Fan]

Now I question the wisdom of using this name, given the widespread hatred of CSX [which I was unaware of until ~6 months ago.]

I am still unaware, who hates it and why?  Is this like the 1800's Granger's hate of railroads?

I don't know why people hate it but here is the site.  csx-sucks.com  check out the top bar for some photos.

-Smoke

[Gandy Dancer]

Now I question the wisdom of using this name, given the widespread hatred of CSX [which I was unaware of until ~6 months ago.]

I am still unaware, who hates it and why?  Is this like the 1800's Granger's hate of railroads?

[claycts]

Mine was simple CLAYCTS was a business my wife and I had a long time ago. Clay County Technical Services.

[Anonymous]

Hello all,

I find it pretty cool how people's nicknames, etc. come about.  I find it most of the time that you, yourself don't come up with your nickname, etc.  For instance, mine.  LilBeckett.  I'm the youngest of three brothers, and the people that met my oldest brother would just call him Beckett, then the middle brother middle beckett, and then when they learned that there was another one, they just nicknamed me Little Beckett, but that has since be shortened to "Lil".  That's my .50 cents of the story (Have to adjust for inflation)

LilBeckett

[egmurphy]

Interesting stuff.  Thanks for posting.  While I know this has come up before, it's always interesting to hear some of these stories.

I joined the forum back when I was still working (pre-retirement) and was used to using my initials and last name in documents and emails.  Without really thinking about it I just automatically typed it in when registering.  I have a similar username on Yahoo groups related to trains, and Ed M on another RR site.

By the time I thought about choosing a catchy moniker, it seemed like too much trouble to reregister.

Regards

Ed Murphy (who really lacks enough imagination to come up with a catchy nickname....)

[loathar]

Loathar (of the Hill People) A Steve Martin character from the old Saturday Night Live. (re-done by Mike Meyers) He was the smart caveman that walked up right, possessed language and had opposable thumbs.

I always wondered if it was related to Lothar and the Hand People, a 60's band that most people have forgotten.  They never achieved much success, but some credit them with being the first band to tour using synthesizers and a weird electronic instrument called a Theramin, which was played by moving your hand around a central wire.  The electronics converted the changes in capacitance to audio tones.

Interesting. I've never heard of them. It's been my E-mail name for over 15 years. I spell it different so I don't have to add any #'s after it. Lothar is already taken on most ISP's.

[Virginian]

I am one, and rather proud of it.  And, my Great Grandad helped build the railroad of the same name, and my Grandad worked for the N&W.  I am glad I got to see, and even remember, some of the finest steam locomotives that ever were.

[yougottawanta]

Loather , Really ? I thought it was Loath her . Like in Loath her ex wife . You just never know.

[Hoople]

Hoople wasn't my idea. My grandad made it up for all somewhat "silly" and/or train enthusiasts. Of course he always called me that when I was younger... but in 2002 we found out he had lung cancer and he passed away in july of 04.

I decided to keep the name to remind me of him.

[whywaites]

I got my username by just adding "why" to my surname but my nick name in the RAF was Terry. I got this name from Terry Waite who was one of the Beiruit hostages back in the 1980's (along with John McCarthy and American hostages Terry Anderson and Tom Sutherland). I served 17 years with the RAF and some of the guys who I worked with didn't realise that Terry wasn't my real name until a few months before my discharge.

 

Shaun

[yougottawanta]

That is a riot , aloco , CCR "a-loco !a-loco ! I love it  ! 

[dr.bones]

well it's kinda work related,

I'm an Orthopaedic Surgeon south of the border.

[steamage]

"steamage" is short for Steam Age Equipment Company. A resource for older steam power plant equipment. So if you need a 70 ton Corliss stationary steam engine to generate a megawatt or two.

[CSX_road_slug]

  I thought your's was cool and did not know of the CSX hatred myself.

It's out there for sure - there's even a web site called "CSXsucks.com" or something like that.  Apparently many Western Maryland fans also hate it because one of its ancestor railroads, Chessie System, acquired and liquidated the WM.  (As a B&O fan I've never been too fond of 'Cheesie' myself actually...!)

[secondhandmodeler]

The equipment I started with came form my uncle when I was younger.  It sat in storage for eighteen years.  I had to try and make something out of second hand equipment.  I also kind of copied Spacemouse's old layout.  Once again, second hand.  Secondhandmodeler.

Moving forward,  I've ended up using only a few hoppers, and a few buildings.  The diesels and 50' boxcars are too new to have in my era.  I did end up using the brass sectional track, atlas flex track, and the old MRC power pack.  They work fine for me right now.

[Dave Vollmer]

Mine was the result of days of careful creative thought and diliberation...!

[MisterBeasley]

Loathar (of the Hill People) A Steve Martin character from the old Saturday Night Live. (re-done by Mike Meyers) He was the smart caveman that walked up right, possessed language and had opposable thumbs.

I always wondered if it was related to Lothar and the Hand People, a 60's band that most people have forgotten.  They never achieved much success, but some credit them with being the first band to tour using synthesizers and a weird electronic instrument called a Theramin, which was played by moving your hand around a central wire.  The electronics converted the changes in capacitance to audio tones.

[johncolley]

I love big broad curves and use my initials plus the radius of a one degree railroad curve in feet (5,729'). The radius of any railroad curve can be found by dividing it by the degree of curvature (i.e.: transit offset for a chord length (surveyor's chain) of 100 feet.)                                  jc5729 John Colley, Port townsend, WA

[loathar]

Loathar (of the Hill People) A Steve Martin character from the old Saturday Night Live. (re-done by Mike Meyers) He was the smart caveman that walked up right, possessed language and had opposable thumbs.