Alright here is another dumb ? what is the meaning of your screen name?
Now I know some are really obvious but what made you decide to use it?
I know some are off the wall LIKE MINE. So here is my answer Polizi = police in german if it were spelled correctly . I was a cop and I am german by family heritage. it just kinda stuck.
Ok who’s next???[:o)]
My screen name comes from the “Guilford” railroad and “350” is the number of a GP40 on their roster.
mine is my CB radio handle and the nickname i use on IRC. just a big ol slimy worm[:D].
i use Trainworm on all the other forums. kind of a play on bookworm, but i always have a train in my hands instaed of a book[:D]
My is my love of passenger trains
Ch
Mine means I didn’t know what I was doing when I signed up and just put my initials/name as my username. [:I] Either that or it’s just that I have absolutely no imagination.
Regards
Ed (not the most computer literate person on the forums…)
My initials, and the year I was born.
willy6
because people call me Willy and i’m a Nascar fan and my favorite driver drives the #6 car.
My screen name comes from Amtraks Heartland Flyer[8D]
It is my first name and initials of my favorite railroad. When I signed up I did it just to read the news wires, so I just came up with something. Actually, I have wonder about the meanings of a few myself.
Take a guess…[;)]
Unionpacific4018
I like Union Pacific
the 4018 Big boy sits at the age of steam in Dallas
I was born in Dallas
I live in Sachse 20 minutes North of Dallas
thats it
George is my middle name, It’s after my great uncle who was a semi famous stage actor around Virginia beach. And 745 are three random numbers
Andrew
From the Book “Ride the Ironrooster”. I have never read the book but I like the name.
Enjoy
Paul
You should. Paul Theroux is a great writer in general, and his railroad journey books are extra special for rail fans. Also try “The Great Railway Bazaar” and “The Old Patagonian Express”.
For those of you not familiar with the book, it’s full title is “Riding the Iron Rooster, By Train Through China”. Written back in 1988 by Theroux. Dug out my copy. Here are a couple of very short excerpts:
“So, philosophically, the name didn’t fit. But in every other respect this thing was an Iron Rooster. It squawked and crowed and seemed to flap, as steam shot out of its black boiler and it shook itself along the tracks. It was a big, clattering thing, with bells and whistles, that went its noisy and cocksure way westward, into the desert of what used to be called Turkestan.”
and…
“I was eating dinner in the empty dining car at about eight that night when we came to Jiayuguan. What I saw out the window is printed on my mind: in the summer dusk of the Gobi Desert, a Chinese town lay glowing in the sand, and rising above it, ten stories high, was the last gate in the Great Wall - the Jia Yu Watchtower - a fortresslike structure with pagoda roofs; and the train slowed at the Wall’s end, a crumpled pile of mud bricks and ruined turrets the wind had simplified and sucked smooth. In the fading light of day, there was this ghostly remainder of the Great Wall, and what looked like the last town in China.”
Regards
Ed
I lived close to the FEC yard in Medley and the 153 was the loco that brought out many of the survivors of the 'cane that destroyed the overseas rr to Key West. It is on static display with the 113 at the Gold Coast RR Museum in south Dade county.
Fla.Phil
My tattoo, and the year I was born[:I]
Great Dividing Range Mining Company. It is a RR I made up when I was 6.
TWhite? My first initial and last name. Actually, I was going to go with something really cryptic like L-131 or L-105 or AC-6 or M3-2-8-8-4, which are my favorite articulateds, but I figured what the Heck, just make it simple, if not for everyone else, at least for yourself, just in case you forgot WHAT locomotive you were feeling like on a particular day.
Hawks is the nickname of my school. we’re the Blackhawks, but Hawks is what’s on all our jersey’s and what not. and 05 is the year i graduate (senior this year) and 5 is my lucky number to.