Dave Rippinger-Dave Ripp pretty easy.
Magoo was one of my nicknames given to me by a high school friend. I think my wife suggested the Mayor part as one of the scenic details on an earlier layout was the fictional town of Magooville.
I had other childhood and military nicknames that would have been inappropriate for a town name or this forum, so Magoo for the win.
@Snkbittin posted:LOL..well antique tractors are also a passion as are Winchesters ..My Grandson loves the tractors and thats the pic I had with me in it ..The cars are in my profile under things I love
Let me get this straight,,,,,,,,,,,you love tractors over Cobras?????? Now in my case I used to restore and show "mid-year" Corvettes, specifically my 1967 Marlboro Maroon 435/427 coupe, with original side exhausts, and if I had a photo of me in my '67, I would sure as heck post it as my avatar.
@palallin posted:WARNING: Geek Alert!
Lo! These many years ago, my friends and I spent many hours buried in a number of RPGs. Palallin* was the landname of the character I used most frequently and in a number of different systems. In D&D, for example, the character was (as of the last time he was used) a 42nd Level Archer-Ranger.
*Pronunciation (without resorting to IPA): PUH (rhymes with Duh!) LAL (rhymes with Hal, this syllable stressed) LIN (rhymes with Lynn); both of the double Ls are pronounced, as if one were to say "hall lamp" in English.
For a long time, I thought your screen name was Palladin: "Palladin, Palladin, where do you roam?" 
@Hot Water posted:Let me get this straight,,,,,,,,,,,you love tractors over Cobras?????? Now in my case I used to restore and show "mid-year" Corvettes, specifically my 1967 Marlboro Maroon 435/427 coupe, with original side exhausts, and if I had a photo of me in my '67, I would sure as heck post it as my avatar.
No..I love my grandson over all of it and thats the pic I used..Thats a 58 John Deere 420..basically brand new now ..I had to use a pic with me in it and thats one I was in..I love the Cars and tractors..they live together in the Garage Mahal so its all good
I'm in the witness protection program, so I used the name of the last cell-mate I had in prison. Hope he doesn't mind.
I was looking for sympathy from the men on this forum.
@raising4daughters posted:I was looking for sympathy from the men on this forum.
You have mine!! ;-)
As a young boy I spent all my summers with my grand parents in a coal mining town called Thomas in W Va. Everyday I'd see Western Maryland coal drags going through town sometimes powered by as many as 6 steam locomotives. Well my grand daddy was an engineer for the WM and often referred to the Western Maryland RR as the "Wild Mary". When it came time to take a forum name "Wild Mary" was my choice.
I joined this wonderful forum community in 2012. Since my two life passions are music and trains my forum name is trumptrain. I play music on my trumpet and of course I love trains both real and model..... especially O gauge.
I pretty much live by the "KISS" principle,.. My name is Mike and I live in North Carolina,.
It's all about the U for me!
@raising4daughters posted:I was looking for sympathy from the men on this forum.
You got it. We have 2 daughters and no sons. They have both been married for a few years.
Great participation, and THANKS! Keep 'em comin'! :-)
Well Woodson is my mother's maiden name.. It's also the middle name of my famous (infamous) train robbing cousin: Jesse Woodson James..
Born in 1950 with a grandfather that let me drive (very slowly & not very far) a PRR engine at age 8.
Chuck
Well, my first and last names start with D and I live in Arizona, so DoubleDAZ just seemed natural. If that’s taken, I switch to DoubleDWI since I’m originally from Wisconsin.
Here's my story. I'm a bit of a noob. My name is Scott Smith. About two years ago at the OGR birthday party at NJ Highrailers, they made me a nametag with my first and last name. I wasn't actively participating in the forum at that time, and I didn't know about the long-time member having the name and the user name Scott Smith. Anyway, the "real" Scott Smith wasn't there that day, so you all were coming up to me all day like you had finally met your long-time forum buddy and thanking me profusely for all the help I've given you over the years, etc. It was hard to tell people that I wasn't the Scott Smith they were looking for. Many of them felt quite sure I was. To the people reading this that I might have offended with my apparent sudden lack of knowledge about the details of your layout or amnesia about our long-standing relationship, I apologize.
So I picked the user name "Long Hair" because I was known at NJ Highrailers at the time as the new guy with the great hair. To avoid confusion, I don't ever use my first or last name on the forum.
Now that you know the truth, I will fade back into obscurity as the random guy with long hair. My hair isn't even long anymore.
The first forum I joined, It was recommend to use an avatar that related to hobby and not your name. So, since I build in 1/4th scale, Quarter, and O Gauge, is 1/48, also Quarter, I came up with, Quarter Gauger 48'... 😎
I graduated from Michigan State University and The 1225 Pere Marquette used to be parked at MSU. I thought it was the perfect handle for me given the polar express got me back into trains which was inspired by this locomotive at my ala matter. Go Green!
Attachments
Images (1)
I always loved wooden trestles so I built one.
Attachments
Images (1)
Little Giant is the nickname of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Rail Road. Lot of memories of watching them and going to their shop in McKees Rocks. Friendly people!
About 1988 I started a hobby building custom bridges and trestles out of kiln dried oak for HO, O-ga and G-ga for model railroading to support my hobby of model railroading. After a few yrs I narrowed it down to just doing 1/4" kiln dried oak for O-ga. I had a good reputation in the hobby, but approx 2002 I got bored and just stop building bridges and trestles.
Attached is a pic of one of my custom orders I did for a customer who picked it up at York. It was a double track radius, left side started at 37" high w/a 1% grade.
Attachments
Images (1)
I once was an audiophile, until technology caught up with me. I was above most in the 60's, but not now. Anyway, I often had a user name oldphile. When I joined this forum, I wanted something different and oman (begins with O) popped into my head. I couldn't believe no-one had taken it. 
Grew up in Woodside, Queens in New York City right next to Astoria and the PRR/New Haven line. Used to bike down to Sunnyside yards and take pictures with my trusty Kodak camera (I was, like, 12 at the time). Was a wonderful time to be a kid in New York who loved trains. I can still remember watching GG1's go through the wash track and those 2 BB1 switchers parker outside the enginehouse, and the *huge* Railway Express freighthouse. Memories...
I grew up in buckhannon wv and B&O and Chessie System went by my house in the 70's and 80's and thats how i got the forum name of chessie1971!!!
In the pre Internet days I lived in another state with warmer weather and had a side hobby of breeding birds, mostly cockatiels but also some other small pet birds. I also was very active in what were called "Bulletin Board Services," BBSes for short. These were the precursor to the internet, typically hosted on private computers although sometimes also at schools. Many of my friends sought bird keeping advice from me and I got to be known as "the Birdman" so I used that as my BBS handle. One of the services I used to participate on had a policy of requiring users to use their real name. Without going to deep into my family's history, we tend to be pretty private so I got the operator I knew on that system to agree to let me use the moniker "Byrd Mann." With either handle, my friends started to, and still do, call me Birdie or Byrdie and I've kept that alternate personality.
In the late 80’s assigned to an F4E unit, as a fire control systems mechanic, we were getting a fighter ready for a mission. A component for the radar system had failed and we just received the replacement part in a fairly good sized wooden crate. The lid was pried open and being held by a co-worker and I was lifting out the component when he accidentally let go of the lid for which one of the spikes used to nail the lid shut went into my head. Long story short, my co-workers called me spike from then on.
18 years ago when I joined the forum not many folks were using their real name, so I didn't even consider using mine. At the time I was very active in Civil Air Patrol as a search and rescue/counter drug/disaster response pilot so CAPPilot seemed appropriate. In hind sight I should have used a railroad/model train oriented name, something with PRR in it.
My actual name is Thom, and I live in Portland. I have a bunch of different interests and am a member of lots of different forums. To keep usernames straight, I use the airport code for Portland--PDX-- and then something to do with my interest. Thus, pdxtypewriter, pdxmoon, etc., and here as pdxtrains. :-)
That was my call sign when I flew Hueys out of Bien Hoa. John
Long long time ago my grandpapy told me “Son, you move so slow if you were a tumbleweed you’d gather dust.” Just kind of stuck.
I’m not good at coming up with clever usernames so I went with the classic first name, last name.
Multiple Choice answers, only one is true:
A) My real name is Alouicious Morland Fitzhenry XXIV and I decided to go with a username that would be easier to type.
B) I am a professional men's footwear model don't want to be recognized by my fans using my real name.
C) Umm..., well you've probably already guessed the real truth. Thanks for playing.
@Tinplate Art posted:... Ironically, I have evolved back to multiple gauges, so I am once again, Multi Gauge Art! I actually own and operate more LGB than tinplate, but I will keep my present forum handle to avoid confusion! LOL!
I wrote a book back in 2004 about Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line...I picked the reporting marks of Metro-North. The story goes that they wanted MNCR (for Metro-North Commuter Railroad, as they were originally called)...anyway, the story goes that Maine Central already had MNCR, so, Metro-North settled for MNCW.
Like Tinplate Art who has evolved, other ways I could have ...My dad was in the Army and National Guard for many years (yes, Go Army ...sorry Joe Krasko!) and after WWII was a fireman on steam and diesel locos shortly. I was early on tempted to use a New Haven name. Later in life I was finally, correctly reborn into The Pennsy family. 
I may still change it yet if I can figure it out.
Edit- With the help of the OGR team, I was able to change my OGR name to PRR8976.
Tom
Got my first train set in the mid 50's. Was the Yellow and green D&RG. Of course it came with Lionel's latest innovation in track - Super O. Have been running Super O since and about to build a new layout at my son's hse in GA using Super O track and Ross switches. IMO, best looking track around. Yes, we bend our own curves to larger radii. Tom
Madockawando is my 10th Great Grandfather of my mother's French Canadian ancestors. He was a was a sachem of the Penobscot tribe in Maine and during the King William's War he led a raid on York Maine that burned the town to the ground. So, he was the first member of my family to go to York. His son-in- law (also my ancestor) French Baron Jean-Vincent de Saint-Castin founded the town of Castine Maine.
I chose his name in order to honor him and remember how deep my roots go in Quebec and New England.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madockawando
In Vermont, you can visit a bronze sculpture of Madockawando
When the Forum was started, I had just started mornings at KOOL 105.1. I'm the first jock each day. I just can't leave or retire because I would have to change my handle.
Jon 
New to model railroading 😜
@raising4daughters posted:I was looking for sympathy from the men on this forum.
I am also a father of 4 daughters. You have both my sympathy and full access to my liquor cabinet should you ever need to hunt for suitable anesthesia.
Metal-based drug therapy also works. 
