Some of our forum names are fairly easy to figure out, such as those with an obvious reference to a specific railroad. Others are not so obvious.
How did you come by your forum names? What do they mean?
I think mine is one of the more obvious ones - I like critter engines.
How about yours?
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Fastball ... sounded better than Fast Express. And a cool band from the '90s.
-Paul
Well, I was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and lived in downtown San Francisco with my lovely wife for many years. Hence: sfcouple. We are now retired living in a small town in Montana and love our new life in the "Big Sky Country." Our new Montana town has zero traffic lights and zero parking meters....somewhat different than San Francisco. And, best of all, our new (to us) home has a basement where my layout is located.
Wayne
Modeling HO Freelance Logging Railroad.
I work on big concrete trucks, actually I've worked on trucks of all kinds all my life. So at the time I was sighning up I noticed a lot of members used fictitious names so I came up with "Truck".
Truck.
Former owner of a 1971 Fiat 124 Sport Spyder. Had it for 22 years. See the picture in my avatar.
Tom
Life is simple - eat, drink, play with trains!
Go Big Red!
PA&ERR "If you think you are doing something stupid, you're probably right!"
From the book title Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux. Also the rooster is a popular symbol in the Cursillo movement in which I was active at the time. Just appealed to me when I joined the forum.
Enjoy
Paul
I used to drag race up at St. Thomas Dragstrip back in the early 1970's...one of my ...erm..coff coff ...traits was for blowing engines up...
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Mine is a shortened version of my whole online screen name and email address. How I came up with the part I use here- GALAXY-is that once, while trying to come up with a new screename, everything I wanted was rejected as "taken" by my server.
Finally, I was looking around for anything to use as a name, and saw the computer's speakers had the label "galaxy" on them. SO that started off my screen name..the rest of it that I DON'T use here was found in an even more stupid rediculous way so I won't bore you to tears with that part. That part, by itself, was also rejected as "taken". COmbining the two together was a winner though .
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Mine Refers to my love of heavy metal music and the 92 refers to the last year when 80's metal was popular before the big rush to cash in on grudge and alternative
Joel
I always liked dowop music, and I graduated in 1962, theyb just go together.
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It is also a show I performed in high school.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merrily_We_Roll_Along_%28musical%29
My screen name is actually a shortened form of the name of my freelance coal-originating railroad, Tomikawa Tani Tetsudo - literally translated from the five kanji pictographs as Rich Stream Valley Iron Road. The first T wasn't capitalized because I was too lazy to hit the caps key...
As for my reasons for modeling Japanese prototype, the second biggest one is the fact that I lived in Japan for close to half of my Air Force career. I've been married to the biggest reason for almost 51 years.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
My name came about when I was 12 years old. I had just gotten into model railroading and I had trains on my mind almost constantly.
My oldest brother had a Creedence Clearwater Revival album with the song 'Porterville' on it. As I was listening to the song I heard John Fogerty singing "i don't care, I don't care", and to me it sounded like "A-loco, A-loco". Having trains on my mind at the time, it couldn't have sounded like anything else.
It's simple. It's my initials and they won't change.
Justin
My wife has a friend/coworker who was helping me sign up for the forum. He cant remember my name (Thayne) so he calls me Thor, So he signed me up as Thor. I tried to change it a few times. But i dont have very good computer skills so I gave up. I guess I am Thor???
thortenney My wife has a friend/coworker who was helping me sign up for the forum. He cant remember my name (Thayne) so he calls me Thor, So he signed me up as Thor. I tried to change it a few times. But i dont have very good computer skills so I gave up. I guess I am Thor???
Don't be so shy about teh name Thor...Thor in mythical legend carried a mighty big hammer....!!!
Berry, I would have never guess Blonout Cylinder came from drag racing. All wise figured had to do with steam engines.
How I came up with Cuda Ken started at a Dodge Charger site. I tried to sign up as Charger Ken, but name was taken. All so tried Road Runner Ken, it was all so taken. Had one car left, my 70 Cuda so I tried Cuda Ken and I got that name!
By the time I got into trains, well Cuda had became my nick name at car shows so I stuck with it.
Car showed in my Icon is my 69 Charger, not my Cuda or Road Runner.
Cuda Ken
I hate Rust
Name appears to be the one thing you cannot change. Probably is or part of the unique key/id for each member. I tried to change mine a while back from all caps to one cap and lower case, but was not allowed.
I was flying during the "CB" rage and my CB handle was Yankee Flyer.So, the first thing that came mind was my old handle.
Have fun
Lee
I was born/raised in the Harrisburg (PA) area. Growing up in the late '60s, '70s and early '80s, I was obviously influenced by Penn Central (because that's was we had rolling through town).
When establishing a screenname, PennCentral was already taken or unavailable. So, I just threw 99 on the end to eliminate the the chance that someone had already used it and I wouldn't be sitting in front of a computer trying to figure one out. I also use this screenname for my YouTube channel to keep things consistant.
You just gave me an idea.....I now need a Penn Central loco with road number 99
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I'm boring. It's the name of my fictitious railroad. As you can probably tell by my signature block.
Connecticut Valley Railroad A Branch of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." -- Henry Ford
My initials. And the number ("90") was my assigned number when I roadraced GP motorcycles.
Ken:
I have always believed that 1969 was the best year the auto industry ever had. There were many wonderful cars, and I owned several of them.
My screen name:
The only passenger train I rode was the Erie Lackawanna Phoebe Snow.
I was in the Navy when I was riding her.
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
The prototype Western Pacific had seven subdivisions in my 70s era. I model a fictitious one, hence the 8th.
Rob Spangler
Mine is another of the obvious ones. while my name is Gary, i'll answer to owen. as longtime fan of the NYO&W , o and w was an easy pick. owen was used by the O&W in advertising
I worked 31 years as a Signal Maintainer. When I was working my ID was sigmtr. When I retired 12 years ago I made it retsigmtr. Due to a credit card theft I had to change my user name and made it retsignalmtr. I use this name for everything I do online.
Last name
Mark P.
Website: http://www.thecbandqinwyoming.comVideos: https://www.youtube.com/user/mabrunton
nick name ,I have an enormous head ,both figurative and literally ...Jerry