Do you have a name for your layout?

Pete,

My active years in the hobby (67yrs) was fill with Lionel Std Gauge trains. During this time period I enjoyed a total of three prewar era tinplate layouts. Each of my layouts carried the same base name. I named them..."The PITA Shortline" No. I, II & III   (Honestly).

I'm 72yrs old and now I'm being the, "PITA" for my kids. My kids removed and sold both of my remaining layouts this past August while I experienced an extended hospital stay. (It's a long story)

 

God Bless,

"Pappy"                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Our first home was in an area known as Ironville, our current home is in the Sporting Valley Subdivision, and I plan to retire south so its the Ironville, Sporting Valley and Southern RR or IVSV+S for short. 

Mine is the Chicago, Milwaukee, and Southwestern. The flagship passenger express is, of course, the Southwest Hiawatha. I am a Milwaukee Road fan, having been born in Wisconsin and watched the Hiawatha pass by my grandfather's house when I was a kid. I live in Tucson, Arizona, where the local railroad is the Southern Pacific (Tucson grew up as a railroad town). The CM&SW is a fictitious joint venture between the Milwaukee Road and the SP to provide freight and passenger service between the Chicago/Milwaukee corridor and the Southwest. CM&SW trains ride on Milwaukee rails from Chicago to Kansas City, then onto the Cotton Belt (an SP subsidiary) to El Paso, where they join the SP main line, on to Los Angeles through Tucson. There are connections with the Kansas City Southern and with various lines into the interior of Mexico, as well as the San Diego and Arizona Eastern (another SP subsidiary) to San Diego through northern Mexico. The CM&SW also connects with the fictional Gadsden Pacific Lines, the railroad of the Gadsden Pacific Toy Train Museum in Tucson. 

 

This gives me a legend to cover running Milwaukee Road and SP trains together on my layout, plus the Kansas City Southern's beautiful black, silver, yellow and red passenger streamliners.

 

p.s. There have been several threads on this topic - it pops up every few months. Here are links to a couple of the longer and more interesting ones. 

What is the name of your railroad and why?

Naming Your Railroad

I call it "My Train Layout"

Sort of:

- I named the 1950s small town I model on my layout San Beattadaise, and that has in some way become the name of the layout.

-Recently I made up my own railroad, the Canon City, Blanca, and Glen Canyon Railroad, and relabeled a number of locos and such in that livery, so you could say that is the name, too.

Turbine Town....

 

Gilly

What he said!  

Yep…. but I can't say it on the forum……...

This has been asked and answered before:  Mine is the "Denver and Front Range",

a fictional line that connects with the Joint Line (old north/south D&RGW/ATSF

double track between Pueblo and Denver, Colo.) south of Colorado Springs and

angles southwest.  It also has connections with the Great Western, a now defunct

sugar beet RR in NE Colorado, by use of the abandoned Colorado and Southern

roadbed that swung out into the prairie east of Colorado Springs to reach Denver.

A good excuse for lots of prairie sentinals (grain elevators) and mining. 

My is The Glacier Line.  It replicates the run around the real Glacier Park.

My layout is the Gone Broke and Busted!!

 

...keep the rails polished...

Yes.  It's "Pigpen."

 

Pete

Its called Da Layout.

As my wife tip toes around it under the tree I know she has a name for it! Does that count? 

"Walker Model Railroad" after my father-in-law, Donald S. Walker.

we lost him a year ago last July. he got me started in O gauge in 1990.

been going strong ever since and named the board I take to shows after him.

 

Mine is

 

THE" JADA" RAILROAD. Comes from our first Initials of our names

 

Alex

 

 

"Rigatoni Express Railroad" in honor of my sons and grandchildren's favorite foods.   Joe

Jamaica Central railroad. Named after the streetcar line that connected Jamaica with Belmont Park,Far Rockaway and Ozone Park. Converted to buses and renamed Jamaica Buses now part of MTA Bus.

Mine is the Grand Circle Railroad

What coincidence!  So do I.

 

We have a name and a logo!

This is our 2 rail branch-line layoit called the Longmont Terminal & Northern.

http://coloradooscale.org/long...northern-homecoming/

I grew up in central Pennsylvania, hence the name of my layout is the Harrisburg, Horningford and Western, also known as The Mattawanna Route.

Curt

No, but my WIFE SURE DOES!  

DA DUM dum tsssssss

 

hellOOOOOO!   (tap tap tap *on the microphone*)  IS THIS THING ON?!?!  

 

I don't have a name for it.  I just call it "the train room", or "upstairs", or "the layout".  My wife calls it "your room".  Valhalla maybe?

 

Just a wonderful logo.

 

B&D railroad

Mine is J&A Junction!! My first letter in my name and first letter in my girlfriends name.

We call ours Silk City as we are in an old silk mill

It's a lot older than the Fifties:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja-Da

 

Mine is the WIHABL Railroad, which is an acronym for "Wish I Has A Bigger Layout".  I'd like to think it's an original name, but if not, I apologize for any plagiarism or copyright infringement!!   After many years of using that name to describe my little 4' X 6' layout, I will probably have to retire it in 2015 when I finally get a train room...woo hoo!!

 

 

 

 

 

Mine is is the Stoney Creek branch of the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina RR. It's a fictional branchline is a real 3-footer RR which folded up in 1950.

The name is linked with the overall concept, which is the reason I built it in the first place. I didn't want a layout to start with and tried to come up with a concept, I did it the exact opposite of that as the idea for the layout was an old one for me, one I've wanted since I was a kid. It's an On30 layout. My profile has the link to my website which explains it further...

"Money Pit Central"

Om my railroad the UP and BNSF just completed a merger and haven't decided on a permanent name yet.  My upper branch line is the Milwaukee Road.  I have thought about trying to come up with a custom name, but I would still be running my favorite road names so why do it?

 

Art 

Thirty years ago, this cross buck sign was made that said the "Three J Railway" as my first name and my two sons all start with the letter "J" but recently I changed it to the "Three J and E" adding Grandson Emmett's initial. Another merger will soon be needed as second Grandson, Isaac, is nearing the age of interest in trains. I run C&O, B&O, PRR, and N&W from the 50's.

My present layout is the HPJRR, for Hidden Pass Junction Railroad. It is so name because the layout is divided by the stairwell and the two sections join behind said stairwell. The junction is under Hidden Pass Mountain, behind the stairwell, sort of hidden.

 

Before that I had an HO layout that was 100% computer controlled, and was called the K&NKRR, for Keyboard & No Knobs Railroad.

 

Before that, another HO layout served two small towns down south, and was called the DPRR, for Dos Pueblos Railroad

 

Alex

Since I have many many ideas on what I want in a layout but can't seem to get started I call what I have (single track loop)... Procrastination Station.

 

Rick

I call mine The Metacomet Central Railroad.

I'm with Spence on the name of my layout:  "My Train Layout" is all I've ever called it.  Kind of reminds me of an old buddy of mine when I was a kid:   He had a dog that followed him around constantly.  I asked him    what he called the dog and he said; "Dawg".  It was enough of a name that both of them knew what it meant. 

 

Now since I'm a big time Milwaukee Rd fan, all of the trains on the layout itself are Milwaukee Road trains and the era is 1950, a time when I was developing my own tastes and enthusiasms for railroads.  On a shelf under part of my layout is a series of tracks, about 12 feet long that store my Chicago and Northwestern trains.  But they get to see service only on very rare occasions;  Too much work to take down all the Milw stuff and replace it with C&NW stuff.

 

Paul Fischer