My layout is HO scale, operations and scenery loosely based on cajon pass but single track. Era is 1945-55 so steam and diesel work side by side.
There´s two helper districts. One end will be LAUPT and the other end Victorville.Main Railroad is Santa Fe with trackage rights for SP and UP. Name should be something like ........& santa fe rr.
Thanks for your help. Some pics and vids


http://youtu.be/0qGVsNMJCVs
http://youtu.be/rSFr9ydoQog

Frank

Named mine after the railroad in the tv series Iron Horse. Buffalo Pass, Scalplock and Defiance.

What is "LAUPT"? Perhaps there's something in that you can add to the Santa Fe part? LA&SF RR?

My railway is the Ottawa Algonquin & Georgian Bay - a fictionalized version of the Ottawa Arnprior and Parry Sound that ran in the area before being absorbed by Canadian National Railways.

My place names are family names and other things that are important to me. I also plan on recreating a couple of actual places, which will retain their real world names (although in some cases, I will use their former or early names).

Andrew

MasonJar Wrote:What is "LAUPT"? Perhaps there's something in that you can add to the Santa Fe part? LA&SF RR?

I thinks that's the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Andrew.

Like Andrew, my roads use real place names, but modelled more-or-less as freelanced versions.

For your line, how about Santa Fe & Western or Santa Fe & Pacific?

Wayne

MasonJar Wrote:What is "LAUPT"? Perhaps there's something in that you can add to the Santa Fe part? LA&SF RR?

My railway is the Ottawa Algonquin & Georgian Bay - a fictionalized version of the Ottawa Arnprior and Parry Sound that ran in the area before being absorbed by Canadian National Railways.

My place names are family names and other things that are important to me. I also plan on recreating a couple of actual places, which will retain their real world names (although in some cases, I will use their former or early names).

Andrew

Hi Andrew, Wayne is right, LAUPT means Los Angeles Union Station. I will build the nice depot as flat at the wall.
Your suggestion sounds good, LA & SF RR!But waynes suggestions sounds also good. Decisions, decisions...... hock:
Perhaps some more.....?

Thanks Frank

I use real place names, from the area I chose to model. Some of those are modified ( Cundys Harbor, Me. became Cindys Harbor. The Kennebec River, became the Kennequogue --Quogue, is a village on Long Island ---), and ocasionally I will use a friends name for a place name, or an industry, or the name of a boat or ship ( the coastal freighter " Louis Arthur ", is named for my Dad, the Collier, "Ralph Henry", for his brother -- the Lindy L is named for a girl I once knew. The Brigantine, on my new module set, will finally have a name --- W.W.Marsland ---to honor a recently deceased Gauge member, ' bil ' ).

I'll leave it at that.
If I give you names for your layout, it stops being yours, and becomes "ours".

Always keep in mind when naming a railroad: someday you may have to decal or letter signs.
I volunteered for a scenic railroad years ago and the name was so long that it took a week just to paint it on a sign, well I may be exagerating a little bit, but I still haven't lettered the ho scale model I painted.[attachment=7987]
Charlie

Just a thought, but back in the late 70's to early 80's, there was a trend on short line railroads to just use initials for the railroad name. In most cases, the initials were those of the children or grand children of the owner. Ones that come immediately to mind would be:
C&J Railroad - Initials of the owner and his wife (Abandoned)
J&J Railroad - Initials of owner's grandchildren (Abandoned)
AT&L Railroad - Initials of owner's grandchildren (In operation)
KWT Railway - This one is a bit different as it is accepted to stand for Kentucky West Tennessee Railway, but was actually the first name initial of each of the three men that started the operation. Kentucky West Tennessee also fit the initials and locale so that's what everyone calls it these days. (In operation and now part of G&W short line family)
Might have been a couple more but I'd have to go through my vast short line information collection to verify that. Any way, something you might consider and would sure make it a lot easier to decal your equipment.

I dont want my own railroad nor decal my own locos. I´m model the santa fe rr. I am searching a name for my layout. My places will get real names like devore, victorville, summit ....Just for clarification :mrgreen:

Frank

X 3829 Wrote:I dont want my own railroad nor decal my own locos. I´m model the santa fe rr. I am searching a name for my layout. My places will get real names like devore, victorville, summit ....Just for clarification :mrgreen:

Frank

So you are not looking for a railroad name, but a layout name.

Why then name it "<something> and Santa Fe RR", which is a railroad name?

Why not simply call it "Cajon Pass" and leave it at that? ;-)

Smile,
Stein

Get out an Atlas (or google Earth) and choose an interesting place name from the map.

Yeah, I usually refer to mine as "my layout" or "the layout". If I'm referring to a photo of a piece of equipment or a modelled location, then I usually use the appropriate name.

Wayne

Hey your layout is looking great already!!! I model the Penn Central but wanted to personalize my layout so I call the layout The Kings Port Division after one of my fictional towns. Perhaps you could call your layout the ______ Division of the Santa Fe? Or you could name it after a feature such as a junction.

Ralph

Union & Santa Fe

Santa Fe Union

SoCal Santa Fe...eh, a bit modern & colloquial but has a nice ring to it.

Santa Fe & Pacific - the "pacific" incorporates the SP & UP ties as well as the region.

Galen - my name, uh, not a suggestion

Oh, and my 'Ocali Creek Railway' is named after a native american chief, for whom my boyhood town of Ocala is named. The ocali creek is the principal waterway my shortline follows into the hills of Appalachia, and the Railway is a nod to the Virginian and N&W which were both Railways, not Railroads, per se. I've got the decals now so I suppose it's official.

My current layout depicts only a portion of the OCRy that runs up a side valley (or hollow - pronounced 'holler'). It will probably be something like the '_____ Valley Branch' of the Ocali Creek Railway. For a brief while my son was enrolled at Pioneer Valley elementary so it was going to be the Pioneer Valley, but we found out we were actually in a different zone so he's now at Frederickson and I don't like the sound of that as much...but it's growing on me. I don't actually have to name it, I suppose, until I publish an article about the layout.

Galen