Does your pike have a name?

You just never can tell how many of us loafers will jump on a topic! 

Mark Boyce posted:

NS6770Fan posted:

The Enola High Grade is mine. Based on the Pennsy’s “Enola Low Grade”. 

You take the high road and I'll take the low road, and I'll be in Enola before ye

You guys crack me up, I love it here on the OGR Forum

D500 posted:

I always have called it "the layout".

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D500, 

No matter how big my layout got, my mother (who passed 2 years ago just a few months shy of 95) always referred to Warrenville as my "train board". Same as she did 60 years ago when my Dad built a 5 x 7 simple train board for my brother and I

WVRR had one division that I forgot to mention.

30 years ago we used to do a lot of camping on a lake in Pennsylvania. I had a six person blow-up dingy. On the front of it I lettered "Warrenville Steamship Co, a division of the Warrenville Rail Road"

This subject has been addressed on here before, but, what the hey?  Mine has long been called the Denver and Front Range, and like a lot of vanished roads, will never reach one terminal, this  one, Denver.  From a junction with former D&RGW and ATSF Joint Line south of Colorado Springs, its mainline heads SW to serve metal mining and compete with the narrow gauge Grande, and Denver, South Park, and Pacific, but as standard gauge, to a town like Gunnison, but freelance.  Other branches serve logging camps and a creosote plant, and one  will have a quantity of grain elevators out on the east prairie, a sugar beet plant, and a connecting line to the Great Western RR and it's beet dumps.  Biggest power will be a Russian decapod, a to-be-bashed 2-4-4-2 (awaiting parts), with a 2-8-0 and 4-6-0 running mostly short mixed trains, as nominal freight and pass.  power. Locos and cars of connecting roads,      D&RGW, C&S, "Q", GW, Mopac, and SF and UP to a lesser extent, may wander through.  A lot of passenger service will be provided by gas electrics and an assortment of railbuses and critters.

Unless or until I can come up with a better one mine is Ricks Dream because that is all I ever seem to be able to do with it. Other things keep getting in the way. Getting the last of the basement finished, Four Seasons room for the bride, out building for me to get my junk out of the basement so I can dream about all the space I now have for a layout and forgot about getting the driveway graded and the drainage swell so it can be paved. Now putting up lights in the basement over a built layout table covered with a track layout. Maybe Lost Cause would be a better name!

I don't have a layout yet, I have a Carpet Central at the moment. My railroad name is Iroquois Terminal, based on the Illinois Terminal, my favorite railroad growing up.

Good thread, I've enjoyed reading the posts of stories behind the names of others "pikes".

Rusty

SOUTH FORK RAILROAD

Mine is the D. C. C. R. R. = Dirty Carpet Central Railroad (DCCentral for short); note that anything goes, I am not era specific:

It all started when I decided to stick a trolley pole on a Lionel center cab back in 2011...  

Since I live about 10 miles from Razorback Stadium in NW Arkansas,  it occurred to me that the red loco would look good with Razorback stickers.   One trip to Wal-Mart later,  the Razorback Traction Co.  was born...

The Gi-raffe Express followed in 2014, when I wanted a blue electric to haul giraffe cars... 

It's been downhill ever since.  ;-) 

Mitch

D500 posted:

I always have called it "the layout".

Same with me. I've always called mine "the layout" or "my layout".

My wife calls it "your trains that take up the front third of our basement."

Pennsylvania Railroad, Monongehela Division, Southwest Branch.  

It would have been the Monongehela Division mainline but that was/is double track and the Southwest Branch which connects to it in Brownsville and the PRR main Greensburg was/is single track (I think).    Family history along the Mon led to this.    The track plan is very loosely based on the prototype, but the towns are in the right order starting at Youngwood and going South.

Lionelski posted:

D500 posted:

I always have called it "the layout".

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D500, 

No matter how big my layout got, my mother (who passed 2 years ago just a few months shy of 95) always referred to Warrenville as my "train board". Same as she did 60 years ago when my Dad built a 5 x 7 simple train board for my brother and I

I never heard "train board" as a kid, but "train table" I certainly did.

Lou1985 posted:

D500 posted:

I always have called it "the layout".

Same with me. I've always called mine "the layout" or "my layout".

My wife calls it "your trains that take up the front third of our basement."

My "train table" (which actually held the "layout", as I conceived of it) was in a corner of the dining room. 4X8. It had a prehistoric (this was the mid-50's) Hi-Rail look.

After checking this thread a couple of times, I began hearing "My baloney has a first name...."

D500 posted:

Lionelski posted:

D500 posted:

I always have called it "the layout".

=================

D500, 

No matter how big my layout got, my mother (who passed 2 years ago just a few months shy of 95) always referred to Warrenville as my "train board". Same as she did 60 years ago when my Dad built a 5 x 7 simple train board for my brother and I

I never heard "train board" as a kid, but "train table" I certainly did.

 

Lou1985 posted:

D500 posted:

I always have called it "the layout".

Same with me. I've always called mine "the layout" or "my layout".

My wife calls it "your trains that take up the front third of our basement."

My "train table" (which actually held the "layout", as I conceived of it) was in a corner of the dining room. 4X8. It had a prehistoric (this was the mid-50's) Hi-Rail look.

After checking this thread a couple of times, I began hearing "My baloney has a first name...."

I had a train board growing up.

D500 posted:

Lionelski posted:

D500 posted:

I always have called it "the layout".

=================

D500, 

No matter how big my layout got, my mother (who passed 2 years ago just a few months shy of 95) always referred to Warrenville as my "train board". Same as she did 60 years ago when my Dad built a 5 x 7 simple train board for my brother and I

I never heard "train board" as a kid, but "train table" I certainly did.

 

Lou1985 posted:

D500 posted:

I always have called it "the layout".

Same with me. I've always called mine "the layout" or "my layout".

My wife calls it "your trains that take up the front third of our basement."

My "train table" (which actually held the "layout", as I conceived of it) was in a corner of the dining room. 4X8. It had a prehistoric (this was the mid-50's) Hi-Rail look.

After checking this thread a couple of times, I began hearing "My baloney has a first name...."

My family’s always called my layouts “train boards”.

I never heard the term 'train board' until I got involved in O gauge three rail in 2012.  Since the late '60s my layout has always been a 'layout'.

Cuyahoga Valley Short Line RR

she's not built yet but her name is Allegheny Federation and the slogan is "trusted to move tomarrow" for the freight hauling component called Fenix Transport (FXT)

Yep, Solid Rock Railroad....see logo below.

Philadelphia and South Western. I have no logo at the present time.

PRRMP54 posted:

Mine is the D. C. C. R. R. = Dirty Carpet Central Railroad (DCCentral for short); note that anything goes, I am not era specific:

That’s what I call pacer stacktrain that’s  funny

I call mine “The Dough Hill” after the TV show the “Walton’s” Dough Hill is where Corabeth Walton Godsey was from. 

lee drennen posted:

I call mine “The Dough Hill” after the TV show the “Walton’s” Dough Hill is where Corabeth Walton Godsey was from. 

I watched The Waltons all the time, but I didn't remember where Corabeth was from.  Good name!

Mark Boyce posted:

lee drennen posted:

I call mine “The Dough Hill” after the TV show the “Walton’s” Dough Hill is where Corabeth Walton Godsey was from. 

I watched The Waltons all the time, but I didn't remember where Corabeth was from.  Good name!

Thanks Mark. Once in while she'll say it mostly when she’s reminiscing how she could go back to Dough Hill and live. 

Mark Boyce posted:

You just never can tell how many of us loafers will jump on a topic! 

That’s why I didn’t ask my wife to help me name it she probably would have said call it the other women 

lee drennen posted:

Mark Boyce posted:

lee drennen posted:

I call mine “The Dough Hill” after the TV show the “Walton’s” Dough Hill is where Corabeth Walton Godsey was from. 

I watched The Waltons all the time, but I didn't remember where Corabeth was from.  Good name!

Thanks Mark. Once in while she'll say it mostly when she’s reminiscing how she could go back to Dough Hill and live. 

Ha, ha!  She could never be satisfied!!  Poor, poor Ike Godsey!

That’s so true Mark. Could you image if Ike ask Corabeth if he could build a layout what she would tell him 

lee drennen posted:

That’s so true Mark. Could you image if Ike ask Corabeth if he could build a layout what she would tell him 

  Oh my!!  That would be a crisis!!

I have the Brisbane & Bushong Railroad.  The wife is CEO.  I am Superintendent of Rail Equipment.

Mine was called a "trainboard", from childhood, until well into adulthood, when ,it,got sometime,  promoted to "layout".

We always set up our trains on the "train platform".  Later it was the "layout".  Only the magazines called them "pikes" (I just figured that's what the old timers called them).  I should have called mine the "Sawhorse and Homesote RR". 

V.I.P.

Vincent's Industrial Park

Earl, I guess I read a lot of magazines in the ‘60s and ‘70s, because I saw the term pike all the time.  Interesting, I live a tenth of a mile from an old road that was bypassed in the ‘30s when they built State Rt 8 from Butler to Pittsburgh.  The name of the old road is Pittsburgh Pike.

J&C Junction!!!!

Ironville, Sporting Valley and Southern RR. Or IVSV+S for short. 
Ironville is the neighborhood where my wife and I first started out, Sporting Valley is the Subdivision we live in now, and Southern is where we plan to retire to! 

I call my little layout in the basement "The D&W Shortline". It is named for the following 2 items it shares the room with and because DW are my first and last name initials.

I thought I was the only one who had to build on top of household stuff

I just call  mine "Roy."

Pete

I never could settle on a name. They always seemed too confining, or too pretentious. (Maybe the latter is why self-deprecating names like "Gorre & Daphetid" and "Nevadun" have been historically popular?) Anyway, names I've bounced around but could never commit to:

TRRA (why not just name it after the real thing?)

Lesperance Street Junction (after Lesperance St. yard in St. Louis, the layout's closest real-world analogue)

MPC ("Missouri Pacific Corporation"... or else the source of the majority of my rolling stock ;-) )

MVARy ("Meramec Valley Anachronistic Railway" ... for the layout at my parents', where all eras of equipment get mixed together.)

Watts in a naim?

Never really thought about a name for my current O gauge layout. I guess the town is Girard, based on the name on the Marx whistling depot. Not real imaginative, huh?

Before diving into vintage tin, I briefly used the name Norfolk & Western for my postwar railroad that ran on basically the same layout. I painted and decaled some off the shelf Lionel and Mark stuff for the N&W.

The last scale railroad I had with a name was my On30 Kennebec Southern. It had nothing to do with Maine 2 footers other than a Bachmann porter I made into a Forney wannabe and a small railbus. Kennebec is the name of the road we live on and the "Southern" part 'cause it sounds cool, I live in the south and it reminds me of the Rio Grande Southern. Mostly the layout was a freelanced mining railroad. I build a rail car similar to one of the RGS geese to add more of the RGS flavor to the mix.