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I compiled a list of businesses for my layout a couple of years ago. 

 

Eetinbarph Resturant

C. Ment & Wood Construction Company

Makaronian Cheese Company

Shoemm & Barium Funeral Home

Orange Manufacturing - Makers of Barrels and Cones

B. S. Fertilizer Co.

Warpt Lumber Co.

Dr. Peter Hertz - Urologist

Dr. Seymour Butz - Proctologist

E. Gadds - Tax Service

Chittee Diaper Service

 

It is amazing (or sad) what an idle mind can come up with.

 

Tom

 Windell Uric Reinhurst-Ubberbans

European Performance garage.

 

 Home of the record setting

VW Beetle 

CAGED SQUIR-RAIL

 

BUILDER/DRIVER  

Windy U R-Ubberbans

 

Stray thoughts...

How about Teds Station Shuttle.... its broke down....something must be "BUS-TED".

 

If there are any candy canes still in your gondola, put it at the power company, you can say that they have their "fill o mints" shipped by rail.

 (FYI even in the 70s, cheapest place to get bulbs was power companies offices)

 

Sign in the window of Ronda's Armenian Inn "early close".

And next door..

 William Irving Mendatall orthopedic surgeon "available for evening appointments".

 

(Um...Ronda Rousey wins early, known to break arms with "arm bars")

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't have a name per se, but there are two slogans I actually saw on municipal

garbage trucks in Florida:  "we cater"  and  "we service what we smell"

 

Another sign I saw on a roadside church bulletin board sometime in August:  "YOU
THINK IT'S HOT HERE??"

 

Yet another sign in front of a church on Super Bowl Sunday:  "How about you stop

by my house before the game"

 

One of the best company names I've seen on a model railroad came from an OGR

feature quite some time ago.  Had to do with a milk canning concern named,

"Supreme Quart".  Sorry, I can't name the issue or the 'inventor'.

 

     Hoppy

 

 

Last edited by HOPPY

My layout is full of fun names most taken from the original Delta Lines Layout of the 1940's done by the late O scale modeler Frank C. Ellison.

There is

Gargle Oil Co. owned by Knutz Tousir

Richmond Meat Packing "Our famous line of Bull"

Hamm & Berger Sausage Works  "Try our  Line of Balony"

Hap Hazard Packing "From farm to table as fast as we're able".

Brrrr Ice Company

The large mountain was going to be named "Mount Paula" but my wife found it inappropriate so instead there is "Little Paula's General Store" (my wife is 6' tall), Lafayette Drugs (went to Lafayette High School) Dilberts Supermarket (was around the corner from where I grew up), the towns of Dennisdale, Douglaston and Danielson named after my sons.

I was also planning a justice of the peace location with a sign that read Hon. Judge I.P. Daly but it never materialized.

 

 

 

 

Last edited by Dennis LaGrua

My new Layout will have businesses named after Family and Friends.

One uncle owned the Meat Packing Plant. (Still need the building, Have a possible but want a better one)

One owned a sawmill and lumber yard. (Have it - K-Line)

Family friend owned the land the local coal mine is on. (Have the Building, will model the mine)

All these will be on the layout along with some of MTH's funny name businesses in town.

Last edited by Russell

I much prefer real names rather than funny ones, choosing to reference locations that have historical significance to the area (upstate NY, one of many areas with a rich RR background). 

Buildings / areas I have on the layout include:

Highland Station (after Highland Park in Rochester NY)

Despatch Yards (after the old late 1800s / early 1900s Despatch Car Shops in what is now East Rochester, NY)

Goodman Street Yards (from the railroad yard near Goodman St and University Ave in Rochester, NY)

The Pole [my Ameritown barber shop building, complete with Miller Engineering barber pole (after a real barber shop of the same name currently operating in Penfield, NY)

Cobbs Hill (after a 100 or so acre park in Rochester NY, which just happens to be located a couple of good throws with a hardball from where I grew up as a kid)

Grandkids and visitors as well enjoy seeing the ties to the history of the area.

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