How did you pick your name?

[IRONROOSTER]

From the book "Ride the Ironrooster". It's all caps because when I was keying it in I didn't realize the caps lock key was on. Oh well[:D]
Enjoy
Paul

[GAPPLEG]

Another real origional Gerald APPLEGate , my first initial and first 5 letters of my last. Easy to type.

[METRO]

Mine is pretty self explanitory. I like commuter railroads, and what do commuter railroads serve? The greater metro area of larger cities, ergo METRO.

haha, sorry if that's a little boring compaired to men riding pies or whatnot

Cheers!
~METRO

[spidge]

Southern Pacific In Dads GaragE.[:D]

[RedGrey62]

Red and Grey for the color of the Bulington's motors (diesels), 62 for the year I entered the world.

Rick

[Walter Clot]

Thanks guys! That was interesting to read. I feel like I know you all a little better. I also enjoy reading profiles when I see an interesting name, location or comment. I hope a few more of you guys ( and gals, I'm sure must be out there too) will add to the fun.

[amtrakjackson]

I've had the same one for years; 1998 or so. Easy. Amtrak 'cause I work for Amtrak, and Jackson 'cause I live near there. Plus it's my e-mail address so I don't get confused. LOL.

Way back it was "amtkjxn" and "amtk2846" ... that was many a moon ago. On some sites I go by "conrail767596"- that was my employee number when I worked for Big Blue. (Which is now Baby Blue.)

Ian

[Walter Clot]

Ian, I used to work for "Big Blue" too. But that was what IBM was called on the stock market.
That was when their stock for $300-$400 a share. It hasn't been the same since I left in 1964. (ha - ha)

[dragonriversteel]

Hello all,

My forum name is hmmm , well Dragon River Steel , pretty easy huh. It all started two years ago, my wife love's collecting dragons.

So I figured ...if I name something after a fire breathing beast it will be sure to get her into my hobby....wrong!!! Anyway, dragon river steel corp , sounds cool for a name of a model steel mill complex.

Patrick
Beaufort,SC
DRSC

[wraitheau]

huh....wraithe is from stargate atlantis but thats not why i chose it...
my surname starts with W and the wraithe is a shadow person...
I like to hide in the shadows and my past is very much a secret so to hide from an interesting past i use my nickname and not my real name...
mind you my email addy is my real name, so kind of defeats the purpose but hey i'm totally mad and dont mind saying so...
i run my pc's 24/7 for processing..(boinc network)...
and have my models sittin above me on shelves...at the moment i have not got my new home organised but will build another layout soon...
making a new quilt is more important at the moment...

kathy aka wraithe..

[Anonymous]

ifunny stories here. mine's an old nick already, used it on ebay, on a backgammon website, on all kinds of websites... it's about actually putting your thoughts into action, a lifelong challenge to me!

[MisterBeasley]

Back when I was a Boy Scout in the Eisenhower administration, our Scoutmaster had name tags made up for us, first initial and last name. Mine came out B. Leslie, which my train buddy at the time perverted to L. Beasley. "Beasley" has stuck with me ever since. It's still my hockey name. When I joined here, it was taken already, so I put "Mister" in front of it.

"Mrs. Beasley" was the name of the little girl's doll on a TV show (Family Ties?) and "Beasley" was Mrs. Drysdale's chauffer on "The Beverly Hillbillies."

[Anonymous]

mine is state i live in then my last name

[Anonymous]

Well, Live in NY most of my life
C - First initial
56 - the year I was born

Or NYC for one of the Roadnames I model
and 56 for the year I was born.

LOL

[91rioja]

Rioja is a region in Spain that produces a great wine.
1991, in my opinion, was the best year so far.

Thus 91rioja. Not train related, but I like to have some wine while working on my railroad.

[icmr]

icmr = Illinois Central Model Railroader.



Victor

Happy Railroading.[swg][swg]

[Anonymous]

kb (my initials) fcsme (Four County Society of Model Engineers) the club I'm in.[:D]

[icmr]

One of my email addresses is [e-mail]
nsicmr = Norfolk Southern Illinois Central Model Railroader.



Victor

Happy Railroading.[swg][swg]

[prospekt mira]

I took the name of the train I used to ride quite often, the "Krasny Strela" or "Red Arrow".

[HoosierDaddy]

QUOTE: Originally posted by MisterBeasley
"Mrs. Beasley" was the name of the little girl's doll on a TV show (Family Ties?) and "Beasley" was Mrs. Drysdale's chauffer on "The Beverly Hillbillies."

Family Affair was the name of the show. (Buffy, Jody, Sissy, Mr. French and Uncle Bill) I'm sad that I have apparently used some of my memory capacity to store those little nuggets.

I've been using my name for awhile now. Hoosier(born and raised in Indiana)Daddy(father of 3 boys). Put together it's a fun play on words.

HD

[johncolley]

I'm slightly bent (the radius of a one degree railroad curve) Any railroad curve's radius for a chord of 100 ft. can be found by dividing 5729' by the degrees of curvature. The 10 degree curve is used a lot on prototype, with a radius of 527.9 ft. which scales out to an 88 inch radius in HO. The jc is my initials. jc5729

[Pdragon]

It's short for the name of our studio, Pen Dragon Productions. We specialize in video and animation. This is a frame from an animation job we did. The H-8 is composited unto a live background getting ready to leave to the yard.

[Anonymous]

Mines been my e-mail name in some form or other since I got my 1st PC about 20 years ago. I'm a model builder and my 1st name is Bob

[Anonymous]

Mine came from being a long time Star Wars fan (saw Ep 6 in theaters when I was about 5 - I actually liked the ewoks back then). Anyway, Chewie was always my favorite because he's a badass. I always thought it would be funny if Han pissed off Chewie, and Chewie just ate him. Kinda morbid, but kinda funny too.

Kevin
(chewie8han)

[Bill54]

My nick name is Bill and I was born in 1954 so I went with Bill54. Although mine is not one of the catchier, interesting ones I'll live with it.

Bill

[Milwhiawatha]

I went with Milhiawatha cause I am a fan of the Milwaukee Road Hiawatha's. Always been A Milwaukee Road Fan when I was a kid but never go into Model railroading till I was 18. Righ tnow all I got is one Hiawatha for the layout since I do model modern era with fallen flags still in place. But I have tons of train artowrk of the Hiawatha along with shirts.

[Isambard]

Isambard, after Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1806 to 1859, a great British railway, bridge, ship and other things designer and builder.

[CMSTPP]

CMSTPP is in my sig. In big bold letters.

James

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by twcenterprises

QUOTE: Originally posted by GEARHEAD426
GEARHEAD, and the size of the baddest motor to rumble out of the seventies--426 Street Hemi.
GEARHEAD426
[8]

Surely you jest, the 426 being the baddest, you've GOT to be kidding. The 440 King Kong (Police Interceptor) motor could spank one any day of the week. Granted, it may take it nearly a mile to get up to speed, but they were built for high speed pursuit. Given the 2 of them in a pursuit, the 426 would give out first, thus the 440 would end up with the advantage. Now if you're talking about a heavily built 426 vs. a stock 440 KK, then you're comparing apples to oranges.

Oh, BTW, my user name is also my business name.

Brad

[:-,][}:)]
http://www.performanceclinic.net/images/Hemi.jpg
572 HEMI crate motor. i nearly crapped myself when i saw this.
and i quote,
A nice, mild-mannered 572-inch Elephant with a huffer. 800+ with the wrong pulleys! (We'll let you imagine the numbers with the right ones!)
an S1 made 1200 ponies on a good day. this will make more than 800.
im sorry i had to do it.
is the KK basically a bulletproofed 440 magnum?

[Anonymous]

Since is like the BNSF and also a Railfan I go by BNSFrailfan.
Allan.