Some of our forum names are fairly easy to figure out, such as those with an obvious reference to a specific railroad. Others are not so obvious.
How did you come by your forum names? What do they mean?
I think mine is one of the more obvious ones - I like critter engines.
How about yours?
Dave
Mine actually ties back to my model railroad. I freelance and I have called my railroad “Forest Railway” (as you can see from my avatar). Its reporting marks are “FRRY” and though I am not a “kid” so to speak, I have used that in most all of the websites I am on. (And yes, theoretically, the reporting marks should be “FRY.” I decided that I didn’t like having my reporting marks remind me of fast food every time I looked at them)
Fastball … sounded better than Fast Express. And a cool band from the '90s.
-Paul
Well, I was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and lived in downtown San Francisco with my lovely wife for many years. Hence: sfcouple. We are now retired living in a small town in Montana and love our new life in the “Big Sky Country.” Our new Montana town has zero traffic lights and zero parking meters…somewhat different than San Francisco. And, best of all, our new (to us) home has a basement where my layout is located.
Wayne
I work on big concrete trucks, actually I’ve worked on trucks of all kinds all my life. So at the time I was sighning up I noticed a lot of members used fictitious names so I came up with “Truck”.
Truck.
Former owner of a 1971 Fiat 124 Sport Spyder. Had it for 22 years. See the picture in my avatar.
Tom
From the book title Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux. Also the rooster is a popular symbol in the Cursillo movement in which I was active at the time. Just appealed to me when I joined the forum.
Enjoy
Paul
I used to drag race up at St. Thomas Dragstrip back in the early 1970’s…one of my …erm…coff coff …traits was for blowing engines up…[:-^]
Mine is a shortened version of my whole online screen name and email address. How I came up with the part I use here- GALAXY-is that once, while trying to come up with a new screename, everything I wanted was rejected as “taken” by my server.
Finally, I was looking around for anything to use as a name, and saw the computer’s speakers had the label “galaxy” on them. SO that started off my screen name…the rest of it that I DON’T use here was found in an even more stupid rediculous way so I won’t bore you to tears with that part. That part, by itself, was also rejected as “taken”. COmbining the two together was a winner though [tup].
Mine Refers to my love of heavy metal music and the 92 refers to the last year when 80’s metal was popular before the big rush to cash in on grudge and alternative
Joel
I always liked dowop music, and I graduated in 1962, theyb just go together.
My screen name is actually a shortened form of the name of my freelance coal-originating railroad, Tomikawa Tani Tetsudo - literally translated from the five kanji pictographs as Rich Stream Valley Iron Road. The first T wasn’t capitalized because I was too lazy to hit the caps key…
As for my reasons for modeling Japanese prototype, the second biggest one is the fact that I lived in Japan for close to half of my Air Force career. I’ve been married to the biggest reason for almost 51 years.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
My name came about when I was 12 years old. I had just gotten into model railroading and I had trains on my mind almost constantly.
My oldest brother had a Creedence Clearwater Revival album with the song ‘Porterville’ on it. As I was listening to the song I heard John Fogerty singing “i don’t care, I don’t care”, and to me it sounded like “A-loco, A-loco”. Having trains on my mind at the time, it couldn’t have sounded like anything else. [:D]
It’s simple. It’s my initials and they won’t change.
My wife has a friend/coworker who was helping me sign up for the forum. He cant remember my name (Thayne) so he calls me Thor, So he signed me up as Thor. I tried to change it a few times. But i dont have very good computer skills so I gave up. I guess I am Thor???
Don’t be so shy about teh name Thor…Thor in mythical legend carried a mighty big hammer…!!!
Berry, I would have never guess Blonout Cylinder came from drag racing. All wise figured had to do with steam engines.
How I came up with Cuda Ken started at a Dodge Charger site. I tried to sign up as Charger Ken, but name was taken. All so tried Road Runner Ken, it was all so taken. Had one car left, my 70 Cuda so I tried Cuda Ken and I got that name!
By the time I got into trains, well Cuda had became my nick name at car shows so I stuck with it.
Car showed in my Icon is my 69 Charger, not my Cuda or Road Runner.
Cuda Ken
Name appears to be the one thing you cannot change. Probably is or part of the unique key/id for each member. I tried to change mine a while back from all caps to one cap and lower case, but was not allowed.
Enjoy
Paul