What is the name of your Railroad and why?

We haven't come up with one yet as it's tough to find the perfect fit.

What's your thought process? I'm thinking something to do with why we run trains?

Being a long time follower of Neil Young's music, and then finding out how involved he is (was) with Lionel trains, and myself living in New York, the answer seemed pretty logical.

 

The CSNY, Central Southern New York, for the train purists. And then there's the NYRX, The Ragged Glory Road. I also have an Lionel animated horse car with the road NYCH, New York Charter Horses although my friends know it's really Neil Young and Crazy Horse. Four bobbing horses, kinda like the namesake.

We live in the Appalachian Mountains, my wife is from Florida and we like the Santa Fe RR so adapting the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe we came up with the Appalachian, Tampa, and Santa Fe

I dubbed my layout "Nickville". I used to daydream a lot when I was very young, and whenever this happened one of my older cousins would always say "Uh-oh, he's wandered off in Nickville again!" 

We live between two beautiful lakes, Lake Norfork and Bull Shoals Lake.  Since our location is almost central in distance to each lake, the area is known locally as the "Twin Lakes".  So....the layout is called the "Twin Lakes Central"...otherwise known as the "TLC RR".  Some folks think the letters stand for "Tender Loving Care" which is just fine too!!

 

Alan

Hi Steve,

 

The name of my railroad is the first initial in my family's name's, me my wife and my two daughters.

 

It's called the JADA Railroad

 

 

The name of our club's garden layout is the G&O because it runs both G and O gauge trains.   Joe

Hello Steve...

 

Currently our pike is the "EIBU" (everything is boxed up), as we are preparing to move to another state. 

 

Our G Scale layout, was originally called the "GSM&T" (green streak mining & timber) named after our Opal mine in Nevada.

The GSM&T was taken over by the "CMRR" (couch mountain railroad) when we relocated to Texas. We live on Couch Mountain, overlooking scenic Lone Star, Tx.

 

We operate, N, G & O trains, and after our move and new layouts built we will 

have to come up with a new road name reflecting our new location.

 

Dave

 

 

 

I model the PRR in western Pennsylvania so "Pennsylvania & Western" seemed like a natural.  I actually came up with the name well before the layout was started.

 

Michigan & Ohio Valley Lines.
Reason: My three favorite roads are C&O, Pere Marquette, and Lionel Lines.  I also like several other roads that ran or run through Ohio and Michigan.

I've never thought about naming the railroad on the train layout - I have models of the Santa Fe and Union Pacific mostly so I guess it is them.  I named the small 1950s town I modeled Sn Beattadaise (seen better days) but not the railroad.

My railroad named after my first letter of my name and first letter of my girlfriend which J&A Junction.

The name of our railroad is the SOLID ROCK RAILROAD for two reasons. First I believe in Jesus Christ and he is my SOLID ROCK.  Second, I dug out my crawl space and it was nothing but SOLID LIMESTONE. Took me over two years to dig/mine out the space.

Progress on my railroad is so slow, it's been declared a national park:

 

 

 

Rusty

South Philly and Western, born in South Philly went to Southern Cal  and spent 1/2 my life there. I am back on the east cost in HQ for another year then hanging up the spurs. to build my dream layout.SP&W.

Ours is the Palms to Pines R.R., named after the famous highway that runs near our neck of the woods.

Dr. Conkey's Express.  That is the name of my real life business. Dr Conkey's Candy and Coffee.  The layout is in the suite next to my store.

My train room in the basement is divided into 2/3 and 1/3 by the stairwell, but the way I arranged the layout, it ends up about 40-60. The two portions of the layout are joined behind the stairwell, and this junction is hidden from view.

 

Hence the Hidden Pass Junction Railroad, or HPJ-RR. (See logo, below.)

 

Alex

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.

I have not named mine yet but thinking about LCRR "Lost Cause Rail Road" since I can never seem to get it any where near started. Got three trains running and just don't seem satisfied with what I have accomplished so far. Most all my motive power is PRR, N&W or Pittsburgh roads I saw growing up in the Burgh. P&WV, P&LE etc. No B&O or C&O or that dreaded NYC, well a little of the NYC. The family named the room as Dads Train Room.

I think there was a similar post, but I will repeat an answer.  My first Christmas Marx

layout in grade school was termed the "Silver Creek RR", and set in NE Colorado (in

the plains, since I wasn't up on the state's geography, but luckily, one road of my

interest, the Great Western, operated there).  This in spite of my dad firing steam for

the Southern and my living, for a time, on Depot Lane to a Southern depot. All of

this due to my grandfather's copy of a Kalmbach photo book on Colorado railroads.

The current model has long been termed the "Denver and Front Range", as an attempt to marry characteristics of the Colorado Midland and the Great Western (neither of

which got to Denver, either, as mine, in my imagination, connects with the D&RGW/

ATSF "Joint Line" south of Colorado Springs).  Its imagined route is off to the SW,

accessing some mining towns on the way, and competing with D&RGW narrow and

standard gauge lines, as the narrow gauge Denver, South Park, and Pacific did when

it also (as did the D&RGW) accessed Gunnison, Colo.  I fantacize some day having

an On3 subsidiary to interchange with those two narrow gauge roads.

Back 30 something years ago I modeled HO and more to scale. It was the P.R & B.D Rail Road. Pleasant Ridge and Beaver Dam. Named for 2 coal mines my uncle worked at. I do not have a name for the present rail road, run a number of lines and some never shared the same track. But as soon as I get to it I have a couple of GP 9's that I will letter for the P.R. & B.D. When I was in my early teens I used to get a big kick out of it, if when I was up visiting, my uncle would take me out to one of the mines. All that heavy equipment. They had a couple of Michigan 675's. At the time the worlds largest rubber tired loader. The operator sat 35' in the air. The bucket would hold a full sized pickup truck. So it was a natural name. Of course it was a coal railroad. Even now I recently acquired a MTH A616 in Peabody Coal colors. One of my favorites.

We debated for awhile on this for awhile. Being there was no actual construction and it was going to be built in my mancave/bar room.

We also have Dachshund dogs. So they one the vote and I went with Long-Dog RR.

the NJ Hi-Railers  is The Silk City Railroad because of the building we are in was a silk mill at the turn of the century

The name of my railroad is the Foxchase Central RR.  I live in the Foxchase section of Philadelphia 450 feet from CSX's Trenton Sub.

For 'O' the CTL (Christmas Tree Loop) runs every year.

 

My HO layout, when it's not in boxes, is the 'KL&B Eastern Lines Railroad Museum'. The K is for my daughter Kirsten, the L is me, and the B is my ex, but still friend, Brenda. When set up, the KL&B runs from Kirstenville, through Leonardtown, on up to Brendaton.

 

I went with the museum idea because I got tired of people telling me a pin striped New Haven DL-109 pulling a set of RF&P passenger cars was wrong outside of a railroad museum setting.

 

 

I grew up watching Southern trains and about 80% of my motive power is Southern. However I am also a fan of the northern roads such as Alaska, CN, CP, GN, D&RGW, MRL, etc. I wanted a name that reflected those as well so mine is simply the Canada & Southern Railway. Our motto is "From the Canadian Rockies to the Deep South, we have the continent covered."

Love the responses to this question.  Great thread.

 

I am modeling the PRR's Panhandle Division, named for 7 miles of West Virginia's northern panhandle and where I was raised.

 

George

Illinois Central Gulf railroad, I grew up next to the tracks.

I had a RR called the E&LE or Euclid and Lake Erie. Geographicly in Ohio 'Euclid sits on the shore of lake erie so it actually went no place !!!but i used decals for P&LE dropped the P added the E and same paint and poof ...I said their slogan was the railroad that spins its wheels ! CR John

No name, just a guy running trains and having fun. 

Great Idea Alex! Might try this myself.

Rusty...this is great!!! I got a great chuckle from this...thanks!!!

George... Can't agree more. What a fun thread and some terrific and very creative responses.

Great name RJ!

Alex...Wow!!! Now this is creative. Nice job.

Since I live and grew up in Maryland, dubbed the Free State in an 1923 editorial by the editor of the Baltimore Sun which lambasted the Prohibition from 1923 and suggested Maryland leave the Union, ..... I named my railroad "The Free State Junction Railway" .... which is and conduit line for the 4 class ones and 4 short line railroads set in the late 1940 - 1960.  

 

Those Railroads are the B&O, Western Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the Norfolk and Western ..... all of which owned property in Maryland.  The Reading Co is also represented because they had trackage rights over parts of the Western Maryland

The short lines are The Baltimore and Annapolis, The Maryland and Pennsylvania,

Patapsco and Back Rivers and the Canton Railway.

Polar Express-1st train, Thomas 2nd Train, Alaska RR 3rd train- common theme snow

 

The name let's me borrow the AlaskaRR logo- ArcticRR