Ours is pretty simple. Truck drivers are sometimes called gearjammers. My husband, Larry, is a truck driver. Since I drive too, it was fitting.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
CSX_road_slug wrote:Now I question the wisdom of using this name, given the widespread hatred of CSX [which I was unaware of until ~6 months ago.] It might be time for yet another name change...
RedGrey62 wrote:Gryphon, I like your signature with the prayer from the Red Green show!Rick
Gryphon, I like your signature with the prayer from the Red Green show!
Rick
Hey I thought other's besides myself would enjoy it.
jeffrey-wimberly wrote:Mines the first and last part of my real name. Jeffrey Scott Reneau-Wimberly. My grandparents, being hardcore Native American (Cherokee) called me Running Bear.
My Jeff, we have connections, My grandmother is(or should I say was) full blood Cherokee, other sides had trickles. Had relatives over in Greenwood Miss.
Anyway my screen name is just my first intial , G , and the first 6 letters of my last name APPLEG .
Cherokee brave Jerry
Jerry SP FOREVER http://photobucket.com/albums/f317/GAPPLEG/
When I first joined this forum back in 2003, I simply strung my first + lastname together. Then I read an article warning against divulging my full name on high-traffic internet locations because of security concerns, identity theft etc. So I nuked the old account and rejoined under my current moniker, which I chose because I had just finished kitbashing an ex-GP35 road slug from an RPP shell.
Now I question the wisdom of using this name, given the widespread hatred of CSX [which I was unaware of until ~6 months ago.] It might be time for yet another name change...
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
Piedsou wrote: Piedsou is a short version of my freelanced model railroad, the Piedmont Southern.You will be able to see the Piedmont Southern in Great Model Railroads 2008. Dale Latham
Piedsou is a short version of my freelanced model railroad, the Piedmont Southern.
You will be able to see the Piedmont Southern in Great Model Railroads 2008.
Dale Latham
Hey Dale, I like your nickname! Looking forward to seeing your layout in the GMR2008 issue.
Cheers,
Ryan
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
From the book title "Riding the Iron Rooster" and I was active in the Episcopal Cursillo movement at the time which uses the rooster as one of it's symbols. It's all caps because I don't see as well as I used to and hit the <caps lock> key instead of the <shift> key when I was typing it in.
Enjoy
Paul
I tried GoldenSpike first in honor of the famous ceremony at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory, but it was taken already so I tried SilverSpike next and it took!
Golden Spike National Historic Site
Mine was inspired from the colors of my favorite RR, the Burlington Route, whose locos were painted Red and Grey. The 62 is simply the year I was born.
I was in the middle of building my present layout, and was just beginning to lay the track when I climbed aboard the forum, so I called myself Tracklayer...
It's a combination of my wife's name and mine. Rhymes with "Gordon." If we ever go into business together we will call it Cordon Enterprises. Or Cordon Model Railroads or Cordon Computers or, you get the idea.
Mine is from the vehicle I drive, a Nissan Pathfinder. It is my work truck.
On other forums, I am known as Trainman. Hope I do not have to explain why here
"Cederstrand" was my mothers maiden name. Following her death, I changed my professional Wildlife Artist name from R.B.Scott to Cederstrand as a tribute. She was my early mentor, an inspiration and a fine portrait artist in her own right. I would like to think she is still represented today in the best of my work.
Rob
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
MisterBeasley wrote: Mrs. Beasley, by the way, was the name of the little girl's doll in some old sit-com that I didn't watch.
Mrs. Beasley, by the way, was the name of the little girl's doll in some old sit-com that I didn't watch.
Family Affair......ahh yes, Mr. French, Buffy, and was it....Jody?
The name of one of my first RPG characters. I first thought of it while looking in a mirror.
Karl (spelled backwards sounds like ...)
The mind is like a parachute. It works better when it's open. www.stremy.net
In my latter military career, I was a Personnel Selection Officer (PSO). The specialty was part of the wider work done by the branch of Military Psychologists, which included applied psych research, teaching, recruiting policy, departure programs (for those leaving/retiring), and selection*. When I was considering joining the forum, I had learned a bit about DC ops and found that there is such a thing as a selector. Personnel Selection, selector. What are the odds?
*This process involved several facets of military psychology, but under the auspices of the greater Industrial/Organizational Psych. We would do the research to validate selection tests, and then use them to predict success in primary or basic training, or for specialized employment, such as on submarines, for the Joint Task Force (special ops...the secret squirrels), Search and Rescue, and so on. So, a person comes to me, with permission from his CO, and wants an occupation transfer. He has served in the Combat Arms for a minimum of three years, and wants to be a transport driver, a Medical Assistant, a Search and Rescue Tech, whatever. I was the selecting officer who would rate the person's candidacy in terms of potential, but mostly his chance of not wasting a training space and have him//her fail partway through only because of a lack of aptitude. The other factors that might contribute to failure are not often foreseeable, so not measured. Also, they are poor predictors of success anyway. As is the MBTI, for those who know what that is. And FWIW, the grad entrance exams in most cases are not strong predictors of success.
See the picture at the bottom of this post.
3798 was re-numbered by the henchmen at CSX in 1983, and as 6573 was the last locomotive on the CSX roster to still wear her original Western Maryland heraldry (except for the sloppy numbering....) At a WMRHS convention, the good guys applied the new number in the proper WM script, and touched up the nose herald, as well. I believe that's when the tag "The Last Western Maryland Diesel" was put on the battery boxes as well. Anyway, a short time later, Chessie's goons patched out the original looking numbers again, and slapped their far less authentic version back on. Anyhoo, 6573 - nee 3798 soldiered on into the 1990's, being retired without ever having to endure wearing the Cat Leisure Suit, or any CSX paint scheme. She was sold to some shortline in the midwest, which gave her a thorough overhaul, and finally a fresh coat of their paint scheme.
I think of myself as something of a hold-out, so I chose to use this venerable number as my handle.
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
When I was a Boy Scout, I achieved the lofty title of Junior Assistant Scoutmaster. That entitled me to a name tag, which was first-initial-last-name: B. Leslie. My train buddy, who had the nickname "fungus," did some scrambling and started calling me L. Beasley. This name, acquired in middle school (The School Formerly Known as Junior High) has followed me until as many people know me as "Beasley" as do my real name, Bruce. I've had this nickname for 45 years now.
Mrs. Beasley, by the way, was the name of the little girl's doll in some old sit-com that I didn't watch. The most obscure Beasley was Mrs. Drysdale's chauffer on The Beverly Hillbillies.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Conrail92 aka Conrailv92
Let's break them down.Conrail-92
Conrail: A railroad company I like.
92: My favorite Number
Conrail-V-92
V: My intitial of my last name. Also Favorite Letter.
92: Favorite Number.
My handle is actually the short form of the name of my original, freelance Japanese prototype model railroad. The Tomikawa Tani Tetsudo (Tomikawa Valley Railway) dates from my birthday in 1960, and a gift of a Japanese prototype steam loco from the young lady who would become my wife later that year. (I still have both the wife and the locomotive.) The discovery of my favored prototype, railroad (Japan National Railways) and location (upper Kiso Valley) had to wait for a second dour of duty in Japan, as the date indicates.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
railroad...well, err...well, you see, I thought of the word "railroad" after many weeks at a covert underground lab deep in the White Mountains...
Yoshi, that's my alias. Back in the day (the day being a few years ago), I had an obsession for a puffy green video game dinosaur named Yoshi.
I will give everybody one guess why many call me Smitty. The csmith9474 is just some generic garbage that I started with because I didn't plan on being on this board that much. Oh well.