Do you "name" your layout?

I am limited by space to a small, 48" by 76". I have mostly L&N motive power.

My railroad is called the L&N RR (Loop & Nowhere Railroad)

My railroad in my own name of Michigan and Great Lakes.  The layout itself will be called "Homefront" because it depicts a small town WWII American homefront, and their efforts to help the war.  

On my railroad the UP and the BNSF have just merged but can't decide what to call the new RR.  So for now it's the UP & BNSF RR.

Art

I don't name my layout for a RR, but for the town that I have on it.

I named my HO scale railroad MANY years ago. And I have kept it on my O scale railroad. I will run about ANY road.....I like PRR and other NE roads.....but they fit into my fantasy world just fine. Mine is the .......

But not the famous D&RGW..........

Mine runs from Denver NC to Rio Grande Ohio via Weston WV......thus the D&RGW.

I did this way back in my HO days before I got into the decal biz. I liked the real Rio Grande so I picked them for my fantasy road so I'd have a easy source of decals and freight cars ready made!

It works well for me as my line crosses (or would cross if real) the C&O, B&O, PRR, NYC, N&W and a host of others. And thats why I justify running almost anything.

Turbine Town; featuring examples of Coal fired turbines from PRR, C&O, N&W and UP.

No logo, yet. I'll need to work on that....

Gilly

Mine has a name, but I have yet to come up with any logos or color schemes.  I just run whatever I want as it is.

The layout as a whole, no, but the Marx section is Lumar Valley.

Steve

Mine is called the "Not-So-Great Eastern" aka the "Never Done Lines" as from the inception i was inspired by the late Lorell Joiner's "Great Southern Railroad" (and knowing i'd never achieve his level of workmanship); hence "Not-So-Great". "Eastern" because it is an amalgam of my favorite northeastern railroads (PRR, LV, NH & NYC).

The "Never Done Lines" is self explanatory as it will never be done as i am constantly upgrading and refining it.

jackson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJmTzIFKvys

This road is the "Denver and Front Range", "The Aspen Route".  Logos in custom color decals are an aspen leaf in spruce green for yellow freight, passenger cars and cabooses, and in aspen yellow for spruce green freight and passenger cars. black tenders, coaling towers, etc.  Since it connects with the "Joint Line" (north/south shared former D&RGW/ATSF line), foreign rolling stock seen include those two as well as Colorado Midland, Denver & Salt Lake, Colorado and Southern, Burlington, MoPac, Rock Island, U.P., Utah Coal Route,  Colorado and Wyoming (Colorado Fuel and Iron), Great Western, etc.

I did name my new one, I call it the money pit

Right now it is the Going Broke & Busted!

...keep the rails polished...

This is the Blueboard Central Division of American Flyer Lines.

Yes, I did.

When completed my layout will be referred to as:

          the PC&BR

      "the Pocket Change & Barter Route"

Since pocket change & barter is how I acquired most of it.

Dave

I named my layout, "Moon Township," after my father, whose interest in trains became a part of me, too. His friends, back in the 1940's & '50's, in the U.S. Steel Mill, National Tube Division, in McKeesport, PA, nicknamed him "Moon," though I have no idea why (but I am certain it was not after the old comics-strip character of decades ago, nor after the town in PA.) The layout's name is available in these three photos.

As far as Moon Township looking like a specific location, all I can go by is that an aunt , when she saw the layout for the first time, exclaimed aloud, upon entering the trainroom, "Oh, this looks like Pennsylvania!" I have taken her word for it.

FrankM (moon's son)

Somedayville?

Officially:

Unofficially:

Rusty

Mine is called the Oh My God & expensive. 

Mine is the Lionel Lines Railroad. We often run short on motive power (due to the amount of cargo and passengers which we haul), so we lease power from wherever we can (such as PRR, LNE, LV, Amtrak, UP, CNJ, etc.).

This impressive little railroad serves the Mighty Town of Plasticville, runs through Times News Mountain (named for the newspaper that contributed to it's construction, one paper mache strip at a time), through Packerton Yards (the only place on my layout named for a real place, a local yard that was being wiped off the map with nothing done to preserve the memory), past Placticville Airport, and back to the Mighty Town of Plasticville, where it crosses Lake Semigloss.

The Lionel Lines Railroad also has a rival, less successful company call The American Flyer Lines. Unfortunately, it's repeated problems with track and motive power has caused it to be much less successful than the Lionel Lines Railroad.

My new layout will be Central Division (C&NW, CGW, M&StL, The ROCK, IAIS and Amtrak)

Matt And Papa Rail-Road. Or MNPRR

The Solid Rock Railroad because of where it is and how I did it. See my logo below with the colors.

StillHollow Junction. Small country town setting, with rolling hills with a unique texture not unlike Homasote....

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As soon as I add my upper level and quarry………..

Tim

Nope, far to diversified.

When finally complete, mine will be called "Cool As a Moose Railway".  There will be a sign and logo.

Mine is called the Rachel & William Rail Road after my kids.

Jay in Ottawa

My first name is George, my son's name is George and my grandson's name is George. My grandfather and my father's names were George, so there are 5 Georges in a row. It got confusing many years ago, so the family started calling us in numbers: G3, G4, G5 (G1 and G2 have passed). So, when the three of us built the railroad, we called it "The G's RR". It stuck and that's what it is. The sign is yet to be made, but the plan is in place.

George (G3)

Mine is the Lake Laurel & Hardyville Railroad.

Mine is called the "Twin Lakes Central" because we are located between what is called the twin lakes in the north central part of the state...

Alan

I never name my standard gauge layouts but my narrow gauge line is the Magalloway Lumber Co.

Jeff C

DETROIT & MACKINAC RAILROAD, Now a fallen flag........

Gary,

I thought you were an Ann Arbor guy?

Thanks,

- mario

As I live in Erwin, TN, my railroad is the Erwin & East Tennessee Railroad. 

Mine is the Chicago, Milwaukee, and Southwestern, a joint venture of the Milwaukee Road and the Southern Pacific. The flagship limited passenger express is, of course, the Southwest Hiawatha, operating between Chicago and Southern California over Milwaukee, Cotton Belt, and SP trackage. 

The CM&SW has connections into Mexico via SP de Mexico, and throughout Southern Arizona with the Gadsden Pacific Lines (official railroad of the Gadsden Pacific Toy Train Museum).