Naming Your Railroad

I really appreciate each and every post. I had no idea what was behind a lot of history for each of you, and that quite a few of you actually have your line painted in your own road name. Thank you very, very much for sharing so much about family, history, growing up and your love of trains! You've got me thinking... Terry

The CBS Railroad runs from Clayton,NM to Buffalo, OK and on to Springdale, AR.  The railroad runs through northern Oklahoma and the Oklahoma Panhandle. The railroad was built and owned by these railroads ATSF 25%, Frisco 25%, MP 25%,Katy 10%, KCS 10% and CB&Q/CS 5%.  Today the Railroad has 3 owners BNSF 55%, UP 35% and KCS 10%.  All power, MOW, rolling stock is purchased or leased from the parent companies. The CBS makes it's profits from oil, sand, cement, grains, and has a daily passenger train which may have 7 or more cars in the summer and 1 or 2 cars in the winter. The CBS bylaws say that all equipment purchased/leased from the parent companies will be painted the parent companies colors. But in the last few years CBS has been purchasing used rolling stock and they are lettered for the CBS.

SJC, there is a Indian Valley in California. It was Miwok Indian country. Don

I dreamed up the name on a return trip from York when my wife and I were discussing our purchases.  Noting that we bought rolling stock and locomotives from several different road names that ran all over the country, and since we live in Pennsylvania, I came up with The Penn American Railroad. 

 

The soon to be created ficticious story is of the takeover of most of all the Class I railroads by the evil and powerful Railroad Barron (me) of The Penn American Railroad .  Since this is a huge undertaking of repainting thousands of locomotives and rolling stock, most of them are still in their heritage paint schemes.

 

I have several engines, freight and passenger cars to be painted for The Penn American Railroad, but I doubt I will do it, rather I'll farm it out to a professional.

 

Here is my work-in-progress logo I created on Microsoft Word:

 

 

The soon to be created ficticious story is of the takeover of most of all the Class I railroads by the evil and powerful Railroad Barron (me) of The Penn American Railroad .  Since this is a huge undertaking of repainting thousands of locomotives and rolling stock, most of them are still in their heritage paint schemes.

 

I don't think the ICC would allow that.

In my story, I have the ICC in my back pocket!!    

Grand Funk Railroad.  No lettered equipment, no clever story, just always called it that.

Cliff,

 

That would be a great name for a band!

 

Ed

 

 Twenty plus years ago I had my old HO scale railway named Echo Valley and Thunder Bay but never had the scenery to support that nor the heralds...just lettering.

 Our current Carpet empire is looking for a name- so the only thing I have at the moment is CB&Q....Chawgos Big and Questionable RR., no herald has come to me yet though...."the Big route"...or..."Everywhere West of the Dresser"...yeah, back to the drawing board, I know.... 

I haven't named my railroad line yet as where I live in Phelps NY it used to be serviced by the Lehigh Valley, New York Central, and Pennsylvania railroads, it's now serviced by a short line, the Finger Lakes Railway.I haven't been able to come up with a suitable name for the line out of all that.  I have named the town Slackerville as I work 2 jobs with little time to get to work on it so sometimes it looks likes nothing ever happens there, it is kind of referring to Hooterville on the old Petticoat Junction and Green Acres TV shows from the 1960's, maybe someday Uncle Joe will show up.

Since my layout is toy train style and it is my crazy design I used my first name which is not a politically correct name anymore...

 

The Jefferson RR

 

Simple and it is mine.

My layout was un named until tonight.   My Legacy data base got cleared when my son and two of his friends wanted to play trains this evening.   So I plugged in the PC to re build the engine data base.  And decided to name my layout NE Rail.  Since I model Boson to Portland with Maine Central, Guilford and Pan Am.   With some old Chessie, CSX, NS and BNSF.  (New England Rail)

My O gauge layout is named the SRRR: Small Room Railroad, due to the small size of my layout and train room (train room 14x16, layout 4x8).  My HO layout is named the Wichita & Salina Railroad for two cities near me that are about 90 miles apart). It is a fictitious tourist line.  My layout is a subdivision of the W&S that ties in with a trolley line that connects the railroad to the local amusement park.

Well, after much trying to throw names around and give credit to the history and future of former and current railroads that have serviced Phelps, NY in upstate NY it's the Finger Lakes Lehigh Penn Central railroad servicing Slackerville on my layout. Now if I can only get the workers to get it done sometime before they all retire! LOL!