Does your pike have a name?

M&JRRR - Manhiem & Jackson Run Railroad.

A combination of my street name and the stream that runs through our property.

Yes, Not-So-Great Eastern RR, aka The Never Done Line, Division of the Southern Adirondack Railway Cartel. The name was inspired by the late Lorell Joiner's "Great Southern". "Not-So-Great" as it will never be even close in quality to the Great Southern, although inspired by it when i returned to model railroading in the late`70's; "Eastern" as it is an amalgam of the PRR, NH, LV, & NYC; "Never Done" as a model railroad always has room for improvement and change is never really done; Division of the Southern Adirondack Railway Cartel refers to a small informal group of us who get together almost weekly and often attend train shows together - Ron and his under construction HO F, J & G and under the Xmas tree N; Mark of his now defunct Shiloh Valley Lines (Garden) and N and O Porcupine Central RR's,  and under construction HO elevated; Scott who's modeling the Erie from Rochester to Sodus Bay in HO. "Southern Adirondack" as that is where we all live.

My old layout was called &%$#@*!!!!! which is why I tore it down!  I don't think I'll name my new one - at least not until first blood is spilt during construction.

-Greg

One of my friends said I should name mine the A.R. & O.C.D. because of my attention to detail.

Kansas Grain Belt.

Also unofficially referred to as The Great Plywood Glacier due to the lack of scenic progress.

Rusty

Chesapeake Susquehanna and Western

The name of mine  is Free State Junction Railway and it's based in the town of Patsburg which is the name of the city on my layout. 

- walt

The Plywood Empire Route!

I stole the name from a project HO scale pike built for articles published IIRC in Railroad Magazine, c. mid-'50s. 

Chesapeake & Potomac Railroad - for the main waterways in Maryland. (Also matches my initials.)

Charlie

Well, it's "D-105" since mine is a replica of a Lionel Dealer Display Layout. 

Did a play on my screen name RSJ&B. The first letters of mine, the CEO, and my kids names.

Or as I like to say it's the mid century northeast line with all the great American RRs of the day. 

Running the PRR ,NYC ,PC, NH , B&O, C&O, D&H and BAR.

The LIRR is the home line and owner of trackage rights.

Bob

Blackwater Canyon Line of the Western Maryland Rwy.  Thomas to Parsons, WV with a hidden turn around representing Elkins, WV.  B&O equipment has trackage rights as well.  Early construction stage.

Since I don't want it to ever be done, I call mine the, EVCH RR,  The Ever Changing Rail Road.   It travels thru Garyville.

No, but thanks for this topic. I think it is a very good idea to have a name for one's layout. 

If and when I come up with one, I will let you'all know. Arnold

Sueme Valley System which Sue  my wife’s name and me. 

Buffal-O Central Ry.

I always have called it "the layout".

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That is one long fall for that VGN 2-6-6-6. Makes me cringe looking at it.

Trestleman1 posted:

One of my friends said I should name mine the A.R. & O.C.D. because of my attention to detail.

Boston & Maine Railroad because almost all of my locomotives, passenger cars, and maintenance-of-way equipment are identified as Boston & Maine Railroad.

D500 posted:

I always have called it "the layout".

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That is one long fall for that VGN 2-6-6-6. Makes me cringe looking at it.

Trestleman1 posted:

One of my friends said I should name mine the A.R. & O.C.D. because of my attention to detail.

 

I run 60smph over the trestle and I've never had a problem.  Same thing with my diesel loco's.

Trestleman1, It just shows how well you built the trestle and laid your track!!!

Mark Boyce posted:

Trestleman1, It just shows how well you built the trestle and laid your track!!!

I like your choice of trackage to model. My cousin lives near Cass and loves and models the B&O, but in HO.

Trestleman1 posted:

Mark Boyce posted:

Trestleman1, It just shows how well you built the trestle and laid your track!!!

I like your choice of trackage to model. My cousin lives near Cass and loves and models the B&O, but in HO.

Cass is great!  we need to go back since it has been quite a few years since our last visit!  I modeled in HO from the late 60's until about 2010, with a hiatus in N scale squeezed in.  Always B&O and WM.

Trestleman1 posted:

One of my friends said I should name mine the A.R. & O.C.D. because of my attention to detail.

How many REAL trees went into the building of that bridge??  Wow!!

Lionelski posted:

Does your pike have a name?

No.  It represents an imaginary junction among the PRR, NYC and RDG railroads, somewhere in the hypothetical reaches of transition-era eastern Pennsylvania.

palallin posted:

Trestleman1 posted:

One of my friends said I should name mine the A.R. & O.C.D. because of my attention to detail.

How many REAL trees went into the building of that bridge??  Wow!!

Just a medium size basswood tree. lol. We were near Rolla last weekend. Near Belle chute.

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

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!!

I call mine the J&SO Lines, after my wife's parents names, who are no longer with us on the earth. When I am able to get around to do my "Dream" Layout, I plan on adding references to family throughout the layout.

"Misappropriation of Funds"

Simon

Ours is the Great Northeastern Railway (GNR). The name and the logo is a take-off of the Great Northern Railway, But our goat is our dear, departed cat, Chaz.

We run the following road names:

• Pennsylvania RR
• B&O
• C&O
• Jersey Central Blue Comet
• Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines
• New York Central
• Santa Fe (which does not fit into our Northeastern United States scheme)

As of now, the only piece of rolling stock in GNR livery is the caboose, below. More is on the way.

Erie Central also owns P&LE & CSX.

Main City is Pinetree.

The New York Trumbull & Boston Railroad

The places where I have spent my time.

MELGAR

Erwin & East Tennessee Railroad

Doolittle & Loafmoor, suggested by my wife. Can’t imagine why!

WOW! I never expected so may responses to this thread.

Gang, I love the humor, heralds, custom paint jobs and stories you shared here

walt rapp posted:

- walt

Love the billboards, Walt.

Don't tell anyone, but I might steal this idea

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".

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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...."

I had a train board growing up.

D500 posted:

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...."

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.

Mine is the Cheektowaga Central.

nickaix posted:

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.)

Nickaix, sounds like you're in the St. louis area?

Don

PW53inVa posted:

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.

Good thing that they are front loaders!

Tacoma Pizza.  

SantaFeJim posted:

Tacoma Pizza.  

 

 

I love Tacoma pizza pikes

There was a video in the McComas Tuoy 6 video sent of a beautiful O Gauge layout in the home of a dentist (I think his name was Primmer) and his son. The dentist called the layout: "Heaven." 

Arnold 

Maybe I call my layout: "Heaven & H*ll."

LOL.

Nah, Just kidding. I'm still working on a name for mine.  Will let you know when I come up with one.

Arnold

RSJB18 

We find room for our layouts were we can don't we. I enjoy seeing others full basement layouts, but there are many of us that don't have the room for that and have to make due. I had to make mine a little higher off the floor than I wanted so I could still have some storage space for all the other "stuff" including the Christmas tree and decorations. This worked out well for me as a little more space for expansion was had when we got the front loading washer and dryer. Thanks for sharing the picture of your layout. You have packed a lot of action over those filing cabinets and it looks like fun.

PRRMP54 (Dave) 

When the old top loader washer and front loader dryer went bad I told the wife I would get her some nice front loaders. She wanted the raised bases they go on but I told her they were a little pricey for what they were. I knew the raised bases would make the table I was going to add over the new washer and dryer higher than the rest of the layout. It was at that point she figured out what I was up to but being the good wife she is, she laughed and agreed to my plan. Hopefully the D&W Shortline will be able to expand soon using this space so I can run trains around the whole room. Will need a lift out bridge where we come into the room to complete the circle. 

Arnold

I guess all of our layouts, no matter how big or how small, are our little slice of heaven. Mine takes me back to when I was a kid and makes me young at heart, even though I'm older in years. Fun having some of the things I could never afford when I was a kid. We are very blessed.  Always enjoy seeing pictures of your layout and reading your posts. 

Thanks to all for sharing this great hobby.

Dean

Valley Steel Lines

Eagle Ridge RR after the name of the subdivision we live in. 

Growing up and living jus about all of my life in Pennsylvania, and because all of my locomotives and rolling stock have liveries from all over North America, I chose THE PENN AMERICAN RAILROAD. (Soon to be constructed).

I've been kicking around ideas for a logo and a paint scheme, and a website down the road to go along with YouTube videos as I go.

Rick Bivins posted:

Valley Steel Lines

My dad drove for a Valley Steel in the  1950s cool name. 

Mine is the East Grossdale Transfer RR.

Even have shirts and hats !  

Tom