How did you pick your name?

[Anonymous]

uspscsx: usps=United States Postal Service; csx=CSX(favorite railroad)

[Train 284]

Train 284, not really sure why I picked it.........

[bnnrailroad]

bnnrailroad

Ok here we go:

B= Boeville - which is a play on my last name (Boebel). It will be one of the towns on my railroad

N= and

N= Newtown - a play on my mothers maiden name (Newton). This is the other town on the railroad

Railroad= (self explanitory)

So, what we have is:

Boeville and Newtown Railroad, a fictious railroad in Maryland somewhat following the Famous Maryland and Pennsylvainia.

Some other intresting facts on the (hopefully) soon to be BNN:

Roland Park - named for my dad and granddad (both of whom have passed on) and is actually a place in Baltimore, MD

Whickert Hill - Named for my great granddad. It will be near Newtons Farm which is in Newtown

I will also have to whistle stops, Heere (here) and Theere (there). If you are in the middle of them, you are between here and there, if you aren't near them, you niether here nor there!

Sorry for rant! Keep'em rollin' partner!

[Anonymous]

I spent 10 years in the U.S.Air Force,as an Munitions systems specialist.Otherwise known as an AMMO troop.Hence Ammo,Guy is easy to figure out and the #5 just because Ammoguy 1 thru 4 were taken.leaving me with Ammoguy5,I guess I should have just went with ammoguy10 but at the time I wasn't thinking about it.

[Anonymous]

Mine stands for N scale. My favorite of all model railroad scales.

[jawnt]

Jawn Henry was a steel drivin' man.
Being down South, I have a friend who calls me John T. --- when I first went online I decided to use jawnt and if you say it fast it's kind of fun.
Have a friend in Scotland that accuses me of living in 'The Little House in the Cow Pasture' --- am about 80 miles from nearest hobby shop.
And Walter, before I moved back to the 'Cow Pasture' I put in my 30 with Itty Bitty Machine Co.
John T.

[Anonymous]

Aquadan was a nickname I earned in my teens, back when I knew everything. One day during a drug induced mind altering moment, I made a bet to some friends that I could swim from the Penna. side of the Delaware river to the New York side in Port Jarvis. (Without stopping or treading water.)
When I woke up in the hospital three days later, the name on my hospital chart said
" Marine Boy " apparently after a near drowning when they pulled my from the river, my buddies that were with me told the hospital my name was "Marine Boy".
After a few weeks of that it got old so they decided to start calling me Aquadan.
My real name obviously being Dan it just kinda stuck and has been that way for the last 20 + years.
The 005 is a take on the James Bond 007 thing. So thats the story and I'm stickin' to it.

[Walter Clot]

Jawnt, I wanted to ask you what you did at the Itty BM, but checked your profile. Did you service, computers, typewriters or other. What city were you in? I was with them when they came out with the selectric typewriter and when they sold the time clock division to Simplex.
I spent 8 years on the office staff in Miami, Fl.

[Poppa_Zit]

QUOTE: 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.

Same here. "Poppa" is self-explanatory (see above), and the rest are my initials. I once was gifted a black carry bag with my initials embroidered on it in large white letters, and thereafter it stuck as my nickname.

Now my friends yell out: "What does a teenager do before he goes on a date?"

"Pop a zit."

[Walter Clot]

Jawnt, I wanted to ask you what you did at the Itty BM, but checked your profile. Did you service, computers, typewriters or other. What city were you in? I was with them when they came out with the selectric typewriter and when they sold the time clock division to Simplex.
I spent 8 years on the office staff in Miami, Fl.

[river_eagle]

The Original Missouri Pacific Streamliner was called "THE EAGLE",, in honor of the Bald Eagles that wintered along the Missouri River at St. Louis. "The Eagle" ran from St. Louis to Omaha. When the second trainset came online, it was decided to call all the streamliners Eagles so the name was changed to "MISSOURI RIVER EAGLE".
The tracks on which the RIver Eagle ran were and still are only about 50 yards North from my house, but about 100 yards "South" (below), as I live on the bluff overlooking the river

[R. T. POTEET]

R.T.Poteet (I saw it referenced one time as R.J.Poteet but I've always prefered R.T.) is a character out of (early) Texas history. No one, however, really knows if R.T.Poteet was a real or imaginary/mythical character - probably the latter since, if you really didn't know who said it - or who did it - it was probably R.T.Poteet. His name cropped up in James A. Michener's Centennial and also Larry McMurtry used the name in a least one of his novels. I first encountered the name many, many years ago in an obscure novel about The Republic of Texas, the title of which I can't even remember anymore - that's okay, I can't remember the author's name either;there is linkage there - I can't remember the title of the book because I can't remember the author; I can't remember the author because I can't remember the title of the book - I do remember, however, recommending this book to several of my enemies. If they had not been enemies before my recommendation they definitly were after they had finished reading it. I did, however, remember R.T.Poteet; his name always seemed to have just a lttle bit of an alliterative ring to it, and when it came time for a membername that's the one I picked.
I feel fair to point out that I am not from Texas; I lived in Texas as a kid (WWII era) and, of course, I went to Basic Training at Lackland AF Patch in the late-50s; I did give some thought to the Austin area when I was getting ready to retire from the military in 1978 - I thought about it - I laughed about it - and I forgot about it. I just never forgot R.T.Poteet. I do wish I had run the name together in lower-case letters as rtpoteet but it's too late to do anything about that now - I guess!!!

[olequa]

Olequa creek ran through the town I grew up in. I thought it would be a unique name, recognized only by people from the area (SW Wa state). The dual track main carrying GN, NP, Milwaukee Road, UP and maybe SP&S trains ran alongside that creek for 20 miles.

[selector]

My work was in personnel selection for the Canadian Military. Earlier in my career, I was in tanks, British Centurions, and the main armament and ranging 50 cal. were armed using a selector lever.

In fact, in the battle drill, when the tank was to be made ready for a firefight, the crew commander would yell his order, and the first thing the gunner did was reach for the Selector Lever to turn it to the middle "Off" position so that the would not inadvertently fire either weapon. His drill, which although I was a tank troop leader, I had to know as well has he, was to yell out the following as he performed the actions:

"Selector lever off."
"All lights on" (in the gun control mechanisms)
"RG on." (ranging gun)
"Sight coolant pump on."
"Traverse indicator engaged."
"MG & RG foot-pedals down."
"Hands on my controls, observing to my front."

I remember it clearly 30 years later, yet have not crew commanded a tank in 26. Some of this terminology would seem antiquated to a modern tank gunner, but the Centurions were already old, about 25 years, when I finally got to train in them.

Hence, selector for both types of work in my professional life.

[talon104]

Well, talon is the name of the type of plane i work on ( t-38 Talon ) it was the call sign I had to use when i was a expediter...um , 104 .. um 10...4 just came into mind years and years back when i had to start all this name and password stuff on computers so, just about every name i use is either talon or talon 104. [:p] basic and easy to remember since everything these days needs names and passwords i can at least get half of it right always LMAO[:D]
C.C.

[Anonymous]

Hard Add : rail jargon for a very rough coupling when adding up motive/ rolling stock.

[bogp40]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Medina1128

Last name, date of birth.. eh.. And by the way, twcenterprises, I'll take the HEMI, too. Granted, the 440 had more low end torque, but the high end breathing advantage that the HEMI had, more than made up for it.

Same as you, Walter, asked a name and that's it.
Even though I graduated to Mopar (340), there was never a 440 that did in my ' 70 LS6.
The 426 still holds the all time nastalgia/ mean brute power record for me.
Bob K.

[Anonymous]

Easy, 4884bigboy, because the Big Boy was the greatest steamer ever, regardless of what all you non-believers think![:D]

[bogp40]

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

270 gears on any big block is going to send it sailing for top speed. I don't believe you could ever find a Hemi with gears any taller than 3.55:1, most came with 3.70 or 4.11--Gee I wonder why they would top out, but do it while the 440 you talk about is still trying to find it's final shift. 440s with 3.55 gears were being eaten alive by even the 375HP 396s also (had one of those too).
Bob K.

[sarahd]

sarahd baby girls name, chico baby is what she calls her santa fe trains
99sarahd

[BRJN]

When I was a kid, the best video games were to be found in six-foot high stands with names on the side like "Pac-Man" or "Space Invaders". They let the 10 people with the highest scores put in three letters. Most folks used their initials.

After a while, the machines were upgraded: they could hold 15 or even 20 high scores, and had room for four letters per name. Having been caught by surprise after playing a very good game, I had to come up with something on the fly. Somehow, this extra letter just looked more right.

[AggroJones]

My name picked me....

[aloco]

My member name was inspired by the Creedence Clearwater Revival song 'Porterville'. In the chorus John Fogerty sings the phrase 'I don't care! I don't care!', and when I first heard the song I thought he was singing 'a-loco! a-loco!' And being the train fanatic that I was, well, it seemed like a natural assumption.

[jxtrrx]

jxtrrx= Jacks Tracks. My two passions are model trains and 50s & 60s rock & roll oldies. Both my trains and my CDs have Tracks. [:D] Two Rs in trrx for "RailRoad" or "Rock & Roll." I know. I have too much time on my hands.

[Walter Clot]

Thanks, everyone. That was very interesting. I guess some day we need a poll of which name is the most unique. Or we could do it by phone and have a telephone pole.
ha ha.

[GN-Rick]

My first name-preceded by the railway I model. Kind of a no-brainer, but it works for me.

[ChessieFan13]

well Im a fan of the Chessie System and one of my favorite numbers is 13

J.W.

[Anonymous]

My nic is an obscure reference to Jeremiah 18:6. (This is appropriate since musicians tend to be obscure by nature.[;)][:p]) Gumby being a clay figure and "clay in the Potter's hand". The nic was giving to me by the guitar player in my first band because of the speed that I was learning the bass and the music.

Since most BBS's have a "gumby" registered, I used the fact that I'm the 4th and tagged it to the end.

[Anonymous]

Actually my Guru picked my name for me. I use Tuakram on all the chat boards I'm on. As well as for my domain (tukaram.net). Quite a few of my real life friends don't even know my legal name. It's not secret, I just don't use it anymore. (It is really Tim)

[canazar]

My real last name is Kanicsar. "Canazar" was off the hip shot at a simple way to spell my name for a qick handle on AOL screename. All though, for the record, you dont use the Z in the real one, more like a S sound .... [;)]