I rebuild car automatic transmissions for a living,when the internet came along it was available
sometimes now I have to tell people no it's not the other thing.
I originally used my own name when I joined the Forum in 2000.......however, as I became fascinated with the Putnam Division of the New York Central, I changed, probably around 2006.
Peter
My first job out of college was at a plant along the Conrail mainline between Allentown Pa and Oak Island NJ. Pre-Conrail, that trackage was owned by the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Conrail called it the Lehigh Line and I adopted the name. One window in the building overlooked the tracks. It was great to be able to watch trains and work at the same time.
Chris
LVHR
Simple, the PRR was (back in the day) one of the five Class 1 Roads that served my hometown (and the biggest of them). Plus have family ties to Conway Pa.The rest is my name.
Ron
My grandfather owned a photo book on Colorado railroads, a 1940? Kalmbach book that l poured through on visits. I wrote a high school term paper on Colorado, and lobbied at home for several Colorado camping trips that resulted in trips on the D&RGW Silverton. Then when l got back into three rail, from HO, l found l wanted scale models that ran on three rail. And so the handle.
My Mother is from ... and I spent weeks of my summers at my Grandparents house in ... one of the small company mining towns that fed coal to the East Broad Top RR in central Pennsylvania.
All the men in the family either worked down in the mines, or on the railroad. Or, both. I've loosely modeled the place in various layout incarnations.
Jim
Mine is taken from the 3-unit Fairbanks-Morse "Erie-Built" passenger locomotive delivered to Santa Fe Railway in 1947. The individual units were 90L-90A-90B, but the locomotive was just referred to as Number 90 on the railroad.
Im Bill from Youngstown (Yo). 414 are the digits related to my birthday.
Mine is from collecting and chasing down and reacquiring all of the postwar Lionel that I traded off as a kid!
Jeff
@Serenska posted: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.
I feel your pain!
I am bad at coming up with names for things. The first cat that I ever adopted was to be named, "Cat", because I am not creative with names and that way, everyone who visited the house would instantly know her name. So, now you can probably deduce the origin of my OGR Forum handle.
@Number 90 posted:Mine is taken from the 3-unit Fairbanks-Morse "Erie-Built" passenger locomotive delivered to Santa Fe Railway in 1947. The individual units were 90L-90A-90B, but the locomotive was just referred to as Number 90 on the railroad.
L = Lead?
Mine just describes my view on life, would rather look at the world as a big kid then a sour old adult (tougher battle every day). Kids look at the world and can imagine anything, they don't know what you can't do
As far as the big, well, after Covid, bigger than ever
It's my eBay name so I figured why make up another one ?
@palallin posted:L = Lead?
Yes, that was a Santa Fe peculiarity. The front cab unit was given the suffix L for Lead. With A-B-A locomotives (Alco passenger units and Number 90) the trailing cab unit had B suffix. With A-B-B-A locomotives, the trailing cab unit had a C suffix.
On the railroad in the mechanical department there are shop forces and yard forces. The shop forces usually consist of freight car repairmen, carpenters, painters and other misc. repair jobs. The yard forces were car inspectors and airmen (for air tests). I worked in the shop for five years or so and over thirty five years in the yard. We would deride each other as either "shop rats" or "yard rats" and since I started with Penn Central then Conrail and finally Norfolk Southern, I came up with that handle. Doug
@Number 90 posted:Yes, that was a Santa Fe peculiarity. The front cab unit was given the suffix L for Lead. With A-B-A locomotives (Alco passenger units and Number 90) the trailing cab unit had B suffix. With A-B-B-A locomotives, the trailing cab unit had a C suffix.
Thanks!
I used to hang out on the roof of my childhood prewar apartment building in Harlem.
Sometimes others used to do the same thing on adjoining buildings. Most popular in in cooler months. As time went on I used to play electric guitar up on the roof, sunbathe, read, listen to the radio, grow gardens, It was a choice safe place where cool people would congregate. Lots of stories up on the roof.
Listen to Laura Nyro, the Drifters, James Taylor, Carol King, many others. Cool urban song.
Most in my neighborhood knew me as Leroof pronounced with a fake French accent.
John23: At first glance, I honestly thought yours was a Bible verse! There is actually a John 1:23 verse.
@Serenska posted: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.
I als followed the KISS- principle and used my initials. I only raised two daughters both married and I have two grandchildren and both are a handful and I don’t mean the grandchildren. Serenska can I also have access to that cabinet?😁🍺🍺
I am not very clever...
My user name is my 3 kids... Crystal Brent Stacie and 072 to show the min curves on the layout.
The name calls to mind many unconnected memories of my youth. I "inherited" a very nice bell bottom CV lantern from my Mother's side. Although I was about 30 years too late to see the last train run through Carlisle, my mother may have watched my favored Torpedo enter town from her porch. Once I got my driver's license, my stomping grounds encompassed much of the Cumberland Valley line between Harrisburg and Chambersburg. Then as a college intern with the Carlisle PD I was in a car chase on a section of the CV, fortunately after the track had been removed.
Mine is simple R for my last name and traincollector as that's what I'am
I am a delivery supervisor for a Coca-Cola bottler. I am trying to get the company to pony up for an office layout, but they aren't biting!
Mines a secret...and I'm not tellin'....
This is a bit off-color so if you are easily offended don't read any further.
It's obviously my name. However certain club members have insisted over the years it's due to the fact I enjoy a different scale which is blasphemous to O-Gauge, or worse, I frequent those in the world's oldest profession. Hint: separate the first two letters from my last name from the remaining four. 
They've even been known to yell out loud to me at York, "Hey, XX-user".
-Greg
My handle has been the same for quite some time and it originated from a nick name that my parents gave me many years ago. At the time I was head deep in the hobby, I guess I'm still that way, and was trying to learn everything I could about it. Because of this, and with the help of a train movie with the same title, they started calling me Train Master. Over the years the name stuck and I would use it here and there.
We even have a HO user amongst us! LOL!
my forum handle is Paigetrain named after one of my favorite WWE divas Paige
yeah i was having a little crush on her back then but then she went all bad so now i've moved on to Shailene Woodley as my celebrity crush
i'm thinking maybe i should change my forum name but don't know how to
could someone help me? i want to change it to eMKayan5000C
@SteveH posted:Click on your own profile name, that will take you to your profile page. On the right, click on the Edit Profile link. You can probably figure out the rest.
Thanks
@SteveH posted:Click on your own profile name, that will take you to your profile page. On the right, click on the Edit Profile link. You can probably figure out the rest.
I tried to change it like you said but it won't allow me to . the username box is greyed out
Mine comes from my college days. The email system assigned the usernames for the whole university computer network. The scheme was initials, st for (student) and then a number incremented for each user with that same combination. I guess I was the 8th rplst.
One of our profs used to call us by our usernames since that's what he saw when we submitted our programming assignments.
@paigetrain posted:I tried to change it like you said but it won't allow me to . the username box is greyed out
Sorry about that. Now that I actually tried to change mine as a test, the same thing happens to me. I'm sure someone knows.
@paigetrain posted:I tried to change it like you said but it won't allow me to . the username box is greyed out
Only the administrators can change your forum name. @OGR CEO-PUBLISHER
I flew radio control planes for years. I got tired of just cutting holes in the sky so I took up competitive precision aerobatics. The common name is flying pattern. I've used this name for all my forum ventures.
When I joined the forum, I was living in Portland and was a member of the Steam Crew for the SP4449. Did a few trips with HotWater and was lucky enough to visit his layout outside of Chicago.
Not very cryptic; mine's a nod to the Pennsy via the iconic color reference.
