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