Why did you choose your screename?

[Anonymous]

WM for the Western Maryland Railway, and Lurgan is for the Lurgan Branch of the railroad.

[cp1057]

CP 1057 is the road number of a 4-6-0 steam locomotive that was restored for excursion service. When I was 11 ( quite a while ago now), my parents took me on an all-day excursion, sealing my fate as a railfan and model railroader. I still have a cassette that I recorded and have transferred it to a wav file.

CP 1057 is still around and sometimes operates on a tourist railroad in Tottenham Ontario, the South Simcoe. The dedicated volunteers that operate this rolling museum are great and I would recommend a visit for anyone who is within striking distance. I sometimes stop by and say hello to my old friend.

Charles
Hillsburgh Ontario

[ClinchValleySD40]

Mine is the name of my HO scale railroad - Clinch Valley RR Co.

[liquidcross]

Mine's the same as my website, liquidcross.com.

[eng22]

Short for Engine Company 22

[Anonymous]

mine is in homage to my fiance' less the frieght

[Anonymous]

When I went on my church's youth choir trip everyone would call me that and thats what they still call me.

Rock Island, Rout of the Rockets

[Anonymous]

i was orginaly OPRR but i forgot my password so i started another one CNWfan becuase i am a CNW fan and 5525 in a weird twist of fate comes from a kato CP rail SD40. I use digitrax and at my club 5524 was already taken so i used the next one up. kinda odd aint it?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Scottydog

I chose mine because I was born in Scotland. I was also known as Scotty in the navy.

Yo Scotty, beam me up.[:D][:D][:D][:D]

Golly Moses, I just couldn't help myself[:D][:D]

[Anonymous]

I had a couple of ancesters from the Emerald Isles, so I suppose it was a natural choice[:)][:)]

[rf16a]

I like the Baldwin rf16a shark nose diesel locomotive.

[Anonymous]

I chose mudcreek (rr) because it is an itty bitty logging road back in the swamps.... John

[douginut]

Douginut.

Because my name is Doug, And I live in Utah

Doug, in Utah

[krump]

nickname

[Anonymous]

I am "dragonslayer" (a.k.a. ðrågøñslãµër) because that is my MSN nickname, so I used it for the train forums because it would be easy to remember and thought that nobody else would use it. Turns out someone has, so I had to add the "87" (year I was born-- not 1887, 1987).

[Anonymous]

It's a combination of my nickname (derived from Joseph) given to me by my parents and my unique identifier given to me by the Federal Communications Commission in 1990 officially licensing me as an Amateur Radio operator. I still have that original callsign and use it in several other areas, including my Yahoo! mail address.

[Anonymous]

favorite hockey player at the time. Now it's jeff friesen or martin broduer (im not expecting anyone to know who they are)

[Anonymous]

Uhmm, I chose mine because no one else would choose it for me.[}:)][;)] hehehe

[Big_Boy_4005]

QUOTE: Originally posted by elias

favorite hockey player at the time. Now it's jeff friesen or martin broduer (im not expecting anyone to know who they are)

I do, there ARE a couple of things that I like beside trains, and hockey is one of them.[:D]

[sparkingbolt]

I work on real cars too as a hobby, or out of need sometimes. I wanted something with an automotive connection. I couldn't find anything i liked that wasn't taken (On another site).

Once a friend who is a pro mechanic told me that in England, in the early days of the auto, they called spark plugs sparkingbolts. That just cracked me up! So I took it as my screen name . Dan

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by elias

favorite hockey player at the time. Now it's jeff friesen or martin broduer (im not expecting anyone to know who they are)

Jeff Friesen used to play for the San Jose Sharks, was traded to the New Jersey Devils. [}:)] Marty Brodeur is the goalie for the Devils. I'd have to say that even though I'm not a Devils fan, Marty is arguably the best goalie in the NHL. He's always thinking ahead.

I probably couldn't guess who your favorite could be, but I'd be willing to bet his first name is Patrick. [}:)]

[easyaces]

Mine carried over from my days on the CB radio when it was popular back in the 70's. It just kinda stuck with me and carried into the computer age .

[Anonymous]

Its an old nick name from not so long ago middle school when i had (or so the kids said) a mullet. sailor because thats what i do when the weathers too pretty to be outside. how the w got there, i dont know

[Seamonster]

Mine is a term my (now adult) daughter gave me when she was a little girl. It's sort of an in joke between the two of us. When I first needed a screen name for something years ago, I was going to use the format we were forced to use at work for our e-mail addresses (first initial and first 3 letters of surname) but it seemed so mundane so I asked my daughter for suggestions. She said Seamonster was the only thing suitable so now I use it for all my screen names.
...Bob

[Anonymous]

My My how we learn from th past.

[dragenrider]

I chose "dragonrider" because of my love of sci fi[alien] and fantasy books, especially Anne McAffery's Dragonrider series. But, "dragonrider" was always taken on everything I signed up for. So I just use "dragenrider", a different spelling, instead.

What's it got to do with railroading? Not a durn thing! [:P]

[eastcoast]

SOME OF YOU MAY REMEMBER I POSTED THIS TOPIC.
IT WAS ENTITLED "What's in a name ?" about 4 months ago.
How is it that the same questions get rehashed over and over ?
Does anybody EVER CHECK PREVIOUS POSTINGS ???
Maybe we should !!!!!
I AM THE EASTCOAST. HEAR ME ROAR !![:(!]

[Hawks05]

QUOTE: Originally posted by elias

favorite hockey player at the time. Now it's jeff friesen or martin broduer (im not expecting anyone to know who they are)

i know who they are. i don't follow hockey closely but Broduer has been around so long, everyone should have heard about him. if i do watch hockey its usually the Wild and thats not for long. i used to watch it all the time but for some reason i can't stand to watch it. i think the hockey players at school did. i now have this impression that all hockey players are ***holes.

[dave9999]

QUOTE: Originally posted by eastcoast

SOME OF YOU MAY REMEMBER I POSTED THIS TOPIC.
IT WAS ENTITLED "What's in a name ?" about 4 months ago.
How is it that the same questions get rehashed over and over ?
Does anybody EVER CHECK PREVIOUS POSTINGS ???
Maybe we should !!!!!
I AM THE EASTCOAST. HEAR ME ROAR !![:(!]

eastcoast,
You think that's bad, check these out. They were running on the same page, at the same time. Dave

http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12307
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12294

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by eastcoast

SOME OF YOU MAY REMEMBER I POSTED THIS TOPIC.
IT WAS ENTITLED "What's in a name ?" about 4 months ago.
How is it that the same questions get rehashed over and over ?
Does anybody EVER CHECK PREVIOUS POSTINGS ???
Maybe we should !!!!!
I AM THE EASTCOAST. HEAR ME ROAR !![:(!]

I didn't see it. Honest!