I have been here for a little over a year now and haven't seen a similar thread, so I thought I would start one. What is the source or motivation for your screen name? I know, for some, it is really basic--it is your name--but I am curious about the rest. I will get things started. "RideOnRoad" comes from my other obsession, bike riding. I started riding on the roads, but have since branched out to mountain biking. Last year I logged my 100,000th mile on a bike. (It took 20+ years to get there.)
What about the rest of you?
Richard
The railroad that my Mom's uncle and friend's Dad worked for. It was a block from my house growing up in western Montana. Joe
retsignalmtr = Retired Signal Maintainer. NYCTA 31 years
How did you know when you came to that point? 100k miles is a lot on a bike even at 20 years riding! thats 96 miles a week or 13 miles a day every day for 20yrs!
I was a locomotive electrician and hostler for Conrail from 1988 to 1994...hence, Conrail hostler and 61 is just short for 1961, year I came into the world.
Mark H
Modeling in HO...Reading and Conrail together in an alternate history.
Really! Why do YOU think I got this name.
Us big cats are not all that complicated.
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Swedish Custom painter and model maker. My Website:
My Railroad
My Youtube:
Graff´s channel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Chapelon
Andre
Q4B is a Mikado 2-8-2 on the B&O railroad
Kept it simple here. For Facebook friends, bike rider. Mountain/road bike on rail trails in my area. Proably fifty miles of trails in my area and along the Pan Am Railway mainline for a short ways.
Rich
If you ever fall over in public, pick yourself up and say “sorry it’s been a while since I inhabited a body.” And just walk away.
My surname starts with Bat.... So from day one as a little boy, friends would call me Batman and it continued through my working life. Out on the apron at Vancouver Airport I would have two or three radio's and a couple of phones hanging off me and just about anyone that called me would use the name Batman. My son gets called Batman and my daughter gets called Batchick at school so the tradition continues.
Richard congrats on hitting 100,000 big ones. I use to ride back and forth to work for years and that would be about 550 miles a month. I would also do long rides on weekends when I wasn't working so racking up a big odometre reading is quite possible. I am so full of Arthritis now that mountain biking is to painfull, however I do many kilometres on a recumbant bike daily. That lets me keep those isles in the trainroom narrow.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
my other hobby i have to drive slow because its low
and this is just slow
My moniker is pretty obvious if you look at the picture in my avatar.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Mine is too easy to even merit this, but I model a fallen flag in N scale...
Modeling B&O in the early 50's.
My real name. Whatever I say on here I will own.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
Mine probably has the least to do with who I am than most people's here. Rastafarr brings up images of weed-smoking Bob Marley fans in dangly hats; I'm a big fat white guy who despises pot and listens to Veggie Tales. Why the disconnect? I don't really know; old habit I guess. I think I picked the moniker about ten years ago for a video game forum because it sounded vaguely cool.
Stu
Streamlined steam, oh, what a dream!!
The mascot of the HS for which I coach baseball is the Panther
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Joined the forums as a dairy farmer, collecting HO, hoping to get a layout started. Have beef cows now and a little more time to work on the layout. (Still slow going)
Have fun,
bigray1964 How did you know when you came to that point? 100k miles is a lot on a bike even at 20 years riding! thats 96 miles a week or 13 miles a day every day for 20yrs!
I am quite obsessive and have spreadsheets for every year since 1992. Then I have another spreadsheet that accumulates the totals from all of the yearly spreadsheets. Not only can I tell you how far I rode on a given day, I can tell you the temperature and the direction and speed of the wind. Like I said, quite obsessive.
As for how to log all of the miles, it helps to live in Arizona where you can ride all year long.
BATMAN . . .I am so full of Arthritis now that mountain biking is to painfull, however I do many kilometres on a recumbant bike daily. That lets me keep those isles in the trainroom narrow.
. . .I am so full of Arthritis now that mountain biking is to painfull, however I do many kilometres on a recumbant bike daily. That lets me keep those isles in the trainroom narrow.
Miles are miles. As for the narrow aisles,
You are fortunate. Last time I rode in Western Ma was the middle of January. With arthritis in both knees, My KHS bike has a Hill Topper front wheel with PWM motor powered by 24 volt Li-On battery for hills. At near 73, only 1500 miles last year. Love the asphalt paved rail trails.
Easy enough. It's my name, beause I forgot the password for my nickname, and the e-mail account linked to it was taken over by another company years ago-so no sending it to the old email address. I got tired of trying to remember names and passwords, so I kept it simple. Since I try to be respectful of all, I really have no worries
#121 was a GP9 on the Chicago Great Western. I lived next to the CGW as a kid.
From the Book Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux. from the dust jacket: "... the Iron Rooster - an aged rattling train that continues to shudder along a four day route ..." at age 66 that somehow fits me.
Enjoy
Paul
Soo Line GP30 #720, a Proto 2000 locomotive that I have.
-Khang Lu, University of Minnesota Railroad Club
I have an obsession, some may say unhealthy, with the Canadian Pacific Goderich Subdivision. This branchline was originally chartered as the Guelph & Goderich Railway, which shortened becomes the G&G.
That's how I became the G&G fan.
Steve
It's my small nod of appreciation to Mr. George Mortimer Pullman to whom I am greatly indebted for his vision and expertise in developing the most luxurious and comfortable mode of travel known to man.
The Great Hotels and Restaurants of the World could only hope to equal Mr. Pullman's level of accommodation and attention to detail that The Pullman Company has set as THE standard in First Class Travel.
In my youth I was fortunate enough to experience only the remaining vestiges of the Pullman experience, still... grand it was!
Thanks for asking, Ed
I was and still am a big fan of the BN, with my favorite Number.
I'm still modeling the BN even if it is a freelanced version.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SGTDUPREY?feature=guide
Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
I shoot Blackpowder Cartridge rifles in competition and was born in 1956. - Mike
Well first off its my name and come up the 6s by accident of being my favorite number and added a zero. Later on a saw a picture of Conrail SD45-2 numbered #6660. After that picture my numbers meant more to me than everyone telling that their Satan numbers.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.