Somebody already had rebel. As for the meaning, I have never done things the way suggested unless they could prove it was the right way. In investments I always put everything into one basket, something evey investment planner says not to do. I retired the first time at 29 and the second at 53 making 25 to 35% a year doing what everyone says is the wrong thing to do. In school I was the same way and got picked on alot for it, guess I have always followed a different drummer. I continue the tradition in model railroading with things like beaded foam for the main base (it is more stable than the pink stuff but has its drawbacts too like not as dent proof but it can sometimes be had for free).
Mine is as follows: The 1st part is what I use for the reporting marks for my freelanced road as you can tell by my avatar (FRRY) [In theory, it should be FRY, but I didn't like the idea of any fast food references.] The 2nd part is the Kid. (While I am no kid anymore, I starting using that as my email address in college and it just stuck.)
10 years ago I dabbled in modeling CSX, because I loved the gray/blue/yellow "YN2" paint scheme and could see these locos running on the [former] B&O Old Main Line within a mile of my house. I also thought road slugs were pretty cool because they gave a 'second life' to some of my favorite older EMD locos that would have otherwise been scrapped.
My interest in CSX began to fade when they replaced their YN2 scheme with the so-called "dark future" livery . Then I saw what a PITA it can be to wire-in ditch lights. And I missed having cabeese on the ends of my trains.
So in 2009 I made the decision to return to my B&O modeling roots. But I still use my original screen name since that is how everbody knows me around here.
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
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.
I shoot Blackpowder Cartridge rifles in competition and was born in 1956. - Mike
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
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 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
Soo Line GP30 #720, a Proto 2000 locomotive that I have.
-Khang Lu, University of Minnesota Railroad Club
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
#121 was a GP9 on the Chicago Great Western. I lived next to the CGW as a kid.
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
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.
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.
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!
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,
Richard
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,
The mascot of the HS for which I coach baseball is the Panther
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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!!
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 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 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!
my other hobby i have to drive slow because its low
and this is just slow
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."
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.
Q4B is a Mikado 2-8-2 on the B&O railroad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Chapelon
Andre
Swedish Custom painter and model maker. My Website:
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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
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.