How did you pick your name?

[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.

[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!!!

[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

[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.

[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.

[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]

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

[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.

[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!

[Train 284]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[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?

[CMSTPP]

CMSTPP is in my sig. In big bold letters.

James

[Isambard]

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

[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.

[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

[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)

[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

[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.

[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

[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

[prospekt mira]

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

[icmr]

One of my email addresses is [e-mail]
nsicmr = Norfolk Southern 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]

icmr = Illinois Central Model Railroader.



Victor

Happy Railroading.[swg][swg]

[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.

[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