It may be my eyes are failing due to old age, however, I look at some of the avatars of some of the members on this forum and start squinting and go, "what the heck is that".
So tell us about the, who's, what's, where's, when's and why's of your avatar.
Mine is the still standing water tower on the now extinct Kettle Valley Railroad at Brookmere B.C. I like to stop and visit when going by on the Coquihalla highway, better known as the "Highway Thru Hell" of TV show fame. It is about 8Kms off the highway.
Here is a link with a little more info.
http://www.thekvr.com/brookmere.php
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Avatar of LION is a LION (ROAR)
It is obviousy a LION, one of almost 60 stuffed animals (mostly LIONS and TIGERS) that reside in my room.
ROAR
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Mine is two of my dogs, black lab (I inherited from my grand-daughter to be trained, some how never left) and one of my Chessies, on the Eastern Branch of the Swift River up near the Canadian Border. I was looking for gold--they were looking for anything to eat--!!
My user name is the given name for commercial fishermen in Downeast Maine and the Canadian Maritimes.
Mine is Angus Sinclair's paragon of design, the Gilderfluke Perfected Locomotive from the late 1890s.
Mine is the herald of my freelanced ATLANTIC CENTRAL RAILROAD.
It is interesting that you bring up this topic, I too often wonder what some of them are.
And, I must say, I have not always been totally comfortable having mine displayed.
While I am pretty open on here, I would not post a personal picture like some do.
I know I post pictures of my home, but it has been in the newspaper and on national television, so that cat is out of the bag.....
Sheldon
Mine is a free logo that I made a while ago. It will be replaced with the logo that I am going to make that will be put on locomotives and rolling stock.
Batman, my brother watches Highway Through Hell (cue AC/DC)
A suggestion for another question, what's the meaning of your username? Not trying to hijack.
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
To be a ...chops... buster, my reply from when we did this thread in December last year :
Exactly as it appears; a rather custom-design no parking sign on Export St. in Port Elizabeth (there were at least 2 mounted on that fence) in an area where it's entirely feasible that a errently-parked truck or freight car could block access to the Terminal Corporation office. The No-Truck image is standard MUTCD iconography, but the No-Train image (No-Bar Circle over a cab-unit loco) seems somewhat custom, the loco likely extracted from the standard "Railroad Station" icon.
NWP SWPA suggestion for another question, what's the meaning of your username? Not trying to hijack.
Good idea.
My forum name is just what everyone has called me my entire life since I was old enough to go out and play. Friends and all the kids and sometimes teachers at school and it carried on through my working life. I would have multiple radio's and phones draped over me when out loading airplanes and the crackle on the radio would be "Batman............" I had a direct line to Ottawa and they even would call me that.
My Surname is close to Batman, so there you go.
My avatar is a Alco C425m from a local shortline, Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad.
Interesting back story to this picture, the snow on the ground was leftover from a massive snow storm, and had melted significantly, as the air temperature was by then up to 60F! Was quite a sight, that snow still on the ground and most people walking around in t-shirts! You would think I was in Minnesota instead of Pennsylvania...
My username, is my first name, Rick, my favorite thing, trains, and the two cars I rooted for in NASCAR at the time I made my username. (Johnson & Gordon.)
Ricky W.
HO scale Proto-freelancer.
My Railroad rules:
1: It's my railroad, my rules.
2: It's for having fun and enjoyment.
3: Any objections, consult above rules.
My avatar is a Lionel electric that I refurbished to look like the one presented at the 1955 Toy Fair. It had NH colors and scheme, but has L I O N E L in large letters on each side.
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
My picture is a trio of Walthers B40-8W locomotives in the warbonnet livery. They are the old Trainline models from the 1990s which I added some aftermarket details. They run pretty nice and are my favorite locomotives from my collection. My user name is the name of my layout. Lone Wolf is a fictional town located on Wolf Mountain on which the railroad passes over on it's way between the valley and the desert. It is named after the only wolf left in California. Sadly they have all been hunted to extinction just like California’s grizzly bears. Before it became part of the Santa Fe system, The Lone Wolf Railroad was a shortline which served the local logging industry and some mining interests. The mill closed in the 80s and was replaced with urban development.
Like Sheldon's, mine is the herald of my freelanced model railroad.
My user name is the ID number my employer assigned me 28 years ago (cu190). I just use it for everything.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
My username is for the initials of my freelance railroad.
Just a Reading Railroad logo, my (duh!) favorite prototype.
ANd my first initial, last name. But I tend to sign my name to every post anyway, just seems more 'friendly' that way.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
Visit my web site at www.readingeastpenn.com for construction updates, DCC Info, and more.
This is a picture of the center platform of one of my subway stations. I think he's a Preiser or Woodland Scenics figure.
I was called "Beasley" by my friends, particularly my best friend that I did trains with when I was a teenager. The name stuck. A hockey buddy added the "Mister" part and I liked it.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
In June,1988 Union Pacific's 844 (8444 then) came to Denver's Union Station. My two and a half year old son saw something about it on the news,and decided we needed to see it. I was not involved with trains in any way then,but I took him,expecting to see some little "teakettle".
The 8444 amazed both of us. My boy eventually got over it...I never have.
I'm the third of five brothers - hence my forum name.
Mike
As you can see, my avatar took a lot of planning and consideration, as I wanted something generic
My ID ? The first 2 letters are my initials, and the last 6 deal with what part of Wisconsin I live in.
I do have a some what complete profile filled out, and I always sign out with my first name, it just seams right.
Mike.
My You Tube
I went to Penn State. That's about it.
Great topic idea!
My avitar is a 1/24 scratchbuilt crane. It features 9 functions operated by RC. It weighs 33 lbs in working order, swings 7 feet of boom.
"Southgate" is the fictitious industrial park that is my layout. I originally used that name on a 1/25 tow truck model cuz I just liked the sound of it. "Southgate Towing". I've used it as a forum name on other model building forums, even before I carried the name over to my layout. Dan
Mine is basically of a 1973 Diamond Reo day cab tractor that I restored and painted when I started in trucking on My own, 1982. Getting a lift-on with a side loader at N&W Intermodal yard in Chicago. Little did I know at the time that I would wind up with a very profitable business yrs. later, with drivers of My own and brand new trucks along the yrs. Two of My drivers stayed with Me until We all retired:
Take Care!
Frank
Actually just changed my avatar, so this is rather opportune.
My old avatar, the red-tailed hawk, is my favorite bird, and also my totem (I'm 1/4 Lakota). My new one is the herald for my freelanced model railroad in progress, the Tiorunda and Thrace.
My name is taken from my totem, and was my first email address (at the time I was living in Virginia, hundreds of miles from the rest of my family, so I was very much a "lone hawk"), and now also serves as my gamer tag/callsign.
- Adam
When all else fails, wing it!
My avatar is a drawing of the engine from the children's book " The Little Engine That Could".
"I think I can" is probably the most remembered line in the book.
I hope I never grow up.
Avatar? Well, this is my redesigned herald for my Wishram Oregon & Western. It shows the scenic high light of my RR, the Three Sisters just west of Bend, OR.
User name? I navigated KC135s for my AF career and we were called Tankertoads by those we passed gas to. The 70 is my graduation year from USAFA.
My avatar is a Lego figure that came out earlier this year that gave me a chuckle at how much it looks like me. So I posed it sitting backwards on a chair on an unfinished stretch of my layout, and put it through a black & white filter to imitate a family photoshoot were my current Facebook profile photos comes from. So,its a Lego guy imitating my real-life portrait.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
The HS baseball team I coach is the Panthers. My avatar is an image of my first Lionel locomotive that I received for Christmas in 1956.
Mine is Chester the Cheeto Cheetah. Not some stupid lion. :)
Modeling an HO gauge freelance version of the Union Pacific Oregon Short Line and the Utah Railway around 1957 in a world where Pirates from the Great Salt Lake founded Ogden, UT.
- Photo album of layout construction -
Hello all,
It's the herald of my fictitious railroad.
The name is taken from two local waterways; Buckskin Creek- -which is also the towns water supply- -and the Middle Fork of the South Platte River, of which Buckskin Creek is a tributary.
Hope this helps.
"Uhh...I didn’t know it was 'impossible' I just made it work...sorry"