1 - Like spence and handyandy, I tend to go with "my train layout".

 

2 - Or, on bad days, I have a name for it that I cannot post here.

Do you have a name for your layout?

Yes • Detroit & Mackinac Railway • The logo & name is on my coffee mug.

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No, never though of one that would fit.

When it gets built -- Northwestern and Santa Fe. UP will have trackage rights.

The High Plains Division of the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway Company represents the rough country just off the caprock that would have been encountered had Santa Fe built its Coleman Cutoff (between Coleman, TX and Texico, NM) on its original survey through Abilene, crossing the Jensen Ranch, and coming up onto the caprock near Crosbyton.  C.W.Post convinced the railroad to build through Sweetwater and Post instead, thereby coming up onto the caprock at Buenos and avoiding what would have been a helper district at Crosbyton.  That much really happened.

 

The model railroad is centered around the fictional town of Caprock, Texas, at the edge of the rolling plains and is set in 1952.  The newest vehicle is Roadmaster Harry Burris' spanking new 1953 Ford pickup.  The newest engines are a GP7 and an E8, both built in 1952.  The oldest engine is a 3800-Class 2-10-2.  The oldest engine will be a 2-6-2 when Sunset produces it next year.  The trains are all Santa Fe, except for one: T&NO (SP) runs a local freight on a fictional branch from Tucumcari to Abilene.  The T&NO line used to wash out frequently in the canyons, so trackage rights were negotiated over the Rock Island from Tucumcari to Amarillo, and then over Santa Fe from Amarillo through Lubbock and Caprock, to Dickens, where home rails took it to Abilene.  There is one foreign line engine on the railroad -- an SP Baldwin-Westinghouse AS-616 -- for the T&NO trackage rights train.

Yes. The Central Connecting.

My own railroad .... early 1950's New Jersey ....

 

 

My Railroad is named the FLNYCLVPR which stands to honor the present and past railroads that ran through Phelps, NY where I live. It stands for Finger Lakes (Railway) New York Central Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania Railroad. The layout is named Slackerville as normally I'm working 2 jobs and being a volunteer firefighter I don't get much time to work on building it bigger.  I had knee surgery last winter and now this year I fell on ice and tore up my rotator cuff and had surgery to repair that. I start probably 3 months of physical therapy to get full range of motion and strength to lift 50 lbs ( required with both my jobs) tomorrow so probably not much work for awhile on the layout again this winter so Slackerville fits the name for it. Arm has to be in a sling for another 4 weeks except during Therapy & exercises to allow all the repairs to heal, as arm had to be cut open to do all the repairs to all the muscles.  Had surgery 2weeks ago Wednesday and got the 5 staples removed last Thursday.  Just got a long road of recovery in front of me but hopefully be back okay soon to get but to work on the jobs and the layout.  Merry Christmas everyone!

Michigan & Ohio Valley Lines.

I mainly have trains that run/ran in Michigan and/or Ohio or that sport Lionel Lines deco.  No time period...any era can run on my toy train layout.

No name.  It's just "The Layout" in the "Train Room".

Mine is called "Money Pit Central"

 

Ed

 

Sorry - couldn't resist

I have a two track suspended layout under a covered patio attached to my garage. I call it the WWRR (Wrong Way Rail Road). This because every time I would bring the trains out of the yard inside the garage, I would have one or more switches in the wrong direction.

Don

I enjoy reading all the replies. Especially the ones where they are named "train layout"

 

LOL Too funny.

 

My respects to all.

 

Pete

Yes.  The Brisbane and Bushong RR.

Mine is the MISC prounounced MISSY or MESSY
Short for MISCELLANEOUS....because its a hodge podge of trains.
But I run duplicate cars but they must be diffrent numbers...

Manchester Intermodal Switching Co.

Unbuilt

Usually it's the Susquehanna and Allegheny Rail Road but some times it's the What The @#$%&* Is Wrong Now Railway .

 

jerry

Well if the HO layout ever gets finished it will be the Coos Bay, Grants Pass and Roseburg railway. As for the o gauge, it is well the O gauge layout.

No name for my layout...it's just "the layout".

-Greg

My house mates call it "That cr**" sometimes, unless they are showing it off .

 Post War, and nothing being glued down it changes often, and drastically. So I take artistic license in changing absurdities at will. This mornings babble will be absurd².

 Nobody seems to like my cities, Sketty, Bools.

 But they are great places, no taxes no tolls.

 In the city, Bools, there is "City Oil", spicing our small city life to full boil.

  The city Sketty, though sloppy, is saucy, and sweet, till cheese isn't something that's only to eat.

 If they meet there at all, its always a ball, having the penchant, for strong alcohol. That's what they drink, till they fall, and that's all.   

  Four railroads pikes, bring folk their likes.

 Attached old forks leading to sides, noodling endlessly, dishing out rides.

On their way in, and then out, and then up and around, between Sketty, and Bools are the railroads bound.

 Twisting forks driven if autos the ride, the yard track divides, the street signs they hide. And a low speed is given, thin bricks, bumpy rides.

 

 "Jar Jar-ing" sesa me, "lets walkie, lets talkies, and check out the steads of the big irons jockeys".

 "My onions always in the cutter" "Husks of garlic cause my clutter".

The talkie cream, the walkie salt. Better butter be there not?

 

"Fire pan rust", as ties dip in dust around boots, as they thrust

 "They source all mounds of these ashes I trust?".

"Sure hope that boilers is not gonna bust".

"A replacement is due, no time to rue".

"Oil, electric, to test, I just don't like the diesel the best".

"Narrow?"

 "You know...those tea pots make dough".

 "We have a nice el"

"There's room, it'll sell"

  "Its Sketty! That's why it is city. Besides if done right, they are kind of pretty".

 

 "Look at the crusty boss of the yard. Pound out the bread, work them all hard, loading drains made for waste water, and lubes based from lard".

 

  Serving the hottest items in the humps sieve straight to Bools before going into the city Sketty. the crusty yard boss stops for a chat, yeast he give himself a stroke not counted on.

  "At one point someone said we should shire our city, Sketty, so part of the city, Sketty got shire-ed, and is no longer really city, it improved with age, but is still under Sketty/Bools cover. Bools is wrapped all 'round the city, Sketty. Shire-ed Sketty is not under Bools. It is in the Wood Bools Valley. The city, Sketty, is off to one side in Bools. The Sketty shire'd to the other. That is how we have shire-ed our city, Sketty. The history authority is on top of it all. Cheesy, old, but no one else is worrying about the age of the city, Sketty, that's what's cookin' me". 

  "Hey, There was a new construction site on parcel E of Sketty Mountain too".

A dig into the mountain of Sketty?

 Oregenolly, a mushroom farmer was digging deep into a second cave. Near the underground mine turned veal, and cheese factory, rumors say the cheese guys seemed shaken about something, and are expanding too.

 Maybe the other rumors are true too. Silver, gold, jewels. Those were in Bools before.

 That would be butter with those carats in Bowls. I don't need them in my city, Sketty.

Hey stop at the Mian road diner, they have my favorite, its so fen.

You mean fun.

That's what I said.

What is it.

Wanton soup.

Rrrhhaaaa man! Im getting breakfast.     

 

*woods-Bools woods, next to Tang Spooners, Pan & blade factory. 

... I'm done?.....I'm done!

 

     

 

 

No wait, with the way my track used to be, and eggs and bacon chosen over cold spaghetti, it makes this the Pressed Bacon Lines todays. (still good in Sketty, Bools) 

Some of you have put a lot of thought into naming your layouts.  I'm afraid my names aren't very original:

 

We've got "the basement layout" in the basement and the "Halloween layout" which turns into the "Holiday layout" upstairs.

 

I have considered naming the town, the mountain, and the beach but first I need to finish the town, create the mountain, and the beach. 

Shartzville Railroad, every time I buy something new my wife S*%#'s herself lol

Yes!

 

My layout is,

 

The Union Eastern, Thomaston and Williamstown Railroad.  It connects Thomaston, Connecticut and Williamstown, Vermont.

 

 

Of course, insiders know the the U.E. T. & W. stands for Uncle Ed (me), Thomas (grandnephew 1) and William (grandnephew 2)

 

Ed

 

ps. check this thread:

https://ogrforum.com/t...your-railroad?page=1

My 4'X8' is the Cisco RailRoad - same as the OGR article in the previous issue.   Cicso is a real small town on the Georgia side of the Tennessee border.   Along the old L&N mainline, now CSX.   Almost nothing there, just a gas station, post office, stone church and a couple houses, but lots of trains.   We own property up the mountainside near Cisco.

 

My larger 6 X 12 layout (unfinished) does not have a name yet.

Ken,

 

When I read your article, I was asking myself' "How did he fit an O48 FT curve on a 4x8 sheet?"... seems like the combination of O48 and O36 in the curve let you squeak by!  Good idea!

 

Congrats on the article,

Ed

My Railroad is the CBS Railroad (Clayton NM, Buffalo Ok and Springdale AR or Crystal, Brent and Stacie). The line runs from Clayton, New Mexico to Springdale, Arkansas across northern Oklahoma.  The railroad is owned by the Santa Fe, Frisco, C&S, MoPac and KCS.

"Still Hollow Junction."

 

Fictional small town USA 8x12 layout, though I usually refer to it, "the layout." My daughter built me a wooden sign for it, and I've yet to come up with a proper logo, but will when the muse strikes.

 

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As I mentioned earlier, my actual layout doesn't have a name; just "my layout" and the RR is primarily the Milwaukee Road.  However, I have taken a few liberties with the names of towns along the way.

 

First, the main town, the  town from which all trains begin is a little like Chicago in real life.  However the Union Station is only six tracks wide, not 14 like C.U.T. has.  Now the Milwaukee station had six tracks under the train shed but the tracks were right at the same level as the station itself is.  In Chicago the tracks are under the actual station building, not right behind the station. 

 

My terminal has the tracks beneath like Chicago but the buildings around the station are generally four to six stories, like in Milwaukee, not the skyscrapers that surround the Chicago Station.  So, since it's a cross between the two, I call my main station city: "Chiwaukee". 

 

First station on the line heading West is a small town station within 1/4" scale sight  of a bunch of bridges and trestles, so I called the location "Bridgeview"

 

Next town is named after a real location where, in South Dakota the Milwaukee crossed over the Missouri River.  The abbreviation for Missouri is MO and the RR named the location MO Bridge.  When a town located at the spot, the town became Mobridge, SD and it is still there even though the Milwaukee Road has been gone for more than 40 years.

 

Further on up along the way, my track reaches it's highest point, some 60" above floor level.  So I called the station up there: "Onatop"  because it was "On the top".

 

Works for me.  I like these little silly digs at what was once real life.

 

Paul Fischer

My son had this made for the shop. It was one of the last pieces of Walnut from a tree I cut down about 35 years ago.

Don

 

Yes, It took me looking at the diagram to see that too, Ed.  I am seriously considering Ken's plan for an after Christmas layout, next layout to get back in the layout building business.  It has been over 20 years since I had my last layout.

 

I am thinking of calling the M&K Junction.  B&O fans will know this as the Morgantown & Kingwood Junction (or simply M&K Junction) in northern West Virginia.  Having grown up a half mile from the B&O that would be appropriate.  Mine will stand for my name and my wife's name.  Mark & Kim Junction.

Mariah

Pete,

   Our layout has been called the Pine Creek Railroad for a long long time.

PCRR/Dave

 

The latest Pine Creek Railroad Christmas layout.

The incredible ever expanding NIGHTMARE.

Penn American Railroad

 

As a fan of the PRR, and since a lot of the trains I own are roads from all over the country I created this name for my model railroad.  As the story goes, I, being the evil and powerful Railroad Baron, slowly over the years acquired and took control of all of the railroads operating in the U.S.  Due to government regulations, in spite of having most of them in my back pocket, I was forced (actually begged) to allow Amtrak to continue operations.  Being the magnanimous business man that I am, I relented.  The competition for passenger service was best for business I was told,

 

Since this was an enormous process, most of the trains operating will still be in their fallen flag paint scenes.  These will be called the Penn American Railroad Heritage Program.

 

Have fun everyone!

 

 

Really exceptionally beautiful SD70. My compliments and since I happen to like bears, particularly, Polar Bears, I think it is that much cooler. No pun intended, since Polar Bears love the coolness.

 

 

Pete

LOL. Ha, I know what you mean.

We've been trying to come up with a name since we started the design of the layout, 2 1/2 years ago. It's tough to find one that fits the idea/concept of what we have and what we run.

THE SHARKBAY RAILROAD COMPANY.

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Porvoo Modelrailroaders.

 

https://www.youtube.com/user/P...flow=grid&view=0

 

The above picture is fantastic. Just a picture and yet so full of life and detail. This is why I love this hobby. Perhaps the names are not as important as the efforts made by many in here to recreate scenes not seen in decades. Such artistry is really quite under rated. My compliments, not only in the name, but also in the art!

 

Pete