After joining OGR I noticed that most had a name for there railroad. I had no idea on what I was building it was a making in the blind. So one day I decided to name my RR. the name Fullfillment came to mind. The name represents how I feel when working on it. I called the town and railyard that name.
I'm not sure if I posted to this thread. Even after looking through 4 pages I might have scrolled right past my previous reply but...
KODIAK JUNCTION
Because this is Kodiak or Kodi for short.
My family as far back as I can trace it was located along a branch line off the Mongehela Division of the Pennsylvania RR. This branch ran along Pidgeon Creek through Van Vorhis, Bentleyville, Ellsworth, and Cokeburg and some others.
AS a result, the more I learned about prototype RRs and the PRR in particular the more interest I developed in that area. So I built my model RR very loosely based on a section of the Monogehela Division - and hence the name is "Monngehela Division"
SOLID ROCK RAILROAD.
See my logo for it below my signature.
It all goes back about 16 years ago. I used to buy and and sell. My daughter decided to have a sign made for a Christmas gift. That name has stuck with the layout over the years. It’s even the name of my Facebook page. Even after my move to SC. The sign is proudly attached to the layout. 
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A look at R&R FULLFILLMENT
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Was born and raised in southern Indiana, we lived less than 1/4 mile from the tracks at the junction of Hwy. 60 and Hwy.111 at Bennetsville. I attempt to model (however poorly) the surrounding area. Favorite roads are Monon and L&N with a smattering of N&W (and Nickel Plate Road & Southern). I can clearly remember seeing Monon & L&N trains rolling north daily. So, in an homage to those memories I named mine the OVRR (Ohio Valley Railroad). Of course its possible that I named it that because 1. it's short and 2. I do not have the creative genius as so many folks on this forum seem to possess. bd
Chesapeake & Potomac Railroad - for the main waterways in Maryland. (Also matches my initials.)
Charlie
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Christmas in New York
LTRR, Long Time RR, since I've been trying to build one for a long time, in 7 houses in 5 states, sigh.
With 2 baseball parks on my layout and a lifetime love of baseball, my layout is called Arnold's Fields of Dreams..
As you can guess, Field of Dreams is my #1 favorite movie.
Arnold
I watch your YouTube channel RJ.
Great content!
@Oldegreybeard posted:I watch your YouTube channel RJ.
Great content!
RJ Shier has a YouTube channel???? RJ, have you been holding out on me, or am I suffering from short term memory loss? I wouldn't be surprised it it is the latter. 
@Mark Boyce posted:RJ Shier has a YouTube channel???? RJ, have you been holding out on me, or am I suffering from short term memory loss? I wouldn't be surprised it it is the latter.
Yes I do and it's overdo for a new video!
He could also be talking about one of the other RJ's on this forum??
@Redshirt214 posted:I went with Cleveland & Western since, well, I live just west of Cleveland. It also went well with the NKP\N&W heritage of my local rail line. I think it's pretty solid name for a short line, and the logo I made was based on the N&W logo. It's just on a paper label on the front of the layout... but it beats calling it "the layout" or "the pike" when speaking about it more formally. Which, admittedly, happens almost never...
I recently changed over to "Cleveland Short Line Railway", based off another real line in my area which was owned by the NYC system but nominally independent. I don't intend on strictly modeling it, beyond the fact that I now have predominantly NYC equipment thanks to some recent purchases (though the NYC was already winning out thanks to my NYC flatcar, tank car, and 0-6-0T docksider as my layout's home road by default) which increased it's presence on the pike. The real line ran from Collinwood to a yard called Rockport which is to the south of me and in the 1800s was part of the same township where I live is. The Short Line had trackage rights on the Nickel Plate to reach Collinwood, and the Nickel Plate was an New York Central subsidiary before it was sold for anti-trust reasons to the Van Swerigens, so that aspect of the line's flavor will remain (I even picked up some new Wabash cars so now I have representatives of all three lines in the Nickel Plate-Wabash-Norfolk & Western merger). The real line was a New York Central route to allow trains to bypass congestion around Cleveland. My own version will be a sort of alternative history version, and I'm keeping the big details the same (NKP trackage rights, NYC owned, semi-independent) but I think will go in my own direction in terms of it's other details like it's route, level of independence, traffic ect.
I really enjoy tapping into my local history, but of course freelancing your own line's history\name might be what's best for you. Or picking a real line and strictly modeling that. But I think that whatever one decides on that front, the idea of an interchange or shared trackage rights with one of the big Class 1's is an idea to keep in mind. It can help make even the smallest of layouts seem more like a little link in a much larger chain. With the NYC, I can easily imagine cars bound for Michigan's car ferries, or New York or even Chicago, and I find that very captivating. One day I'd like very much to have this extend to some other famous model railroads as well, like the Delta Lines. In this way, I think, the story of your layout starts to grow beyond just what you are physically depicting on the board to a story with greater scope.
In terms of naming things, just generally, I think short and straight to the point is the best way to go. If I'm writing a character in a story, for example, I tend to go with a short and simple name so I'm not misspelling or forgetting it constantly whilst I try to work our dialog.
