Thank you all for your suggestions, we can wait another week or so before we try to sort through the names, in the meantime, keep them coming.
As a more serious suggestion than my last one
I was thinking with my fingers rather than my brain and came up with these:
- Intercontinental Interconnecting Railway
The Great Multi-Country Railroad
The Continental & Global Express Line
The Greenwich & Meridian (in reference to the international date line)
Yeah, it's kind of hard coming up with something global and avoid being specific to an area.
Quote:The Greenwich & Meridian (in reference to the international date line)
I likes this one.
and dis onetwo :mrgreen:
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Alliance Railway
Pangaea Trans Rail
Unified Rails
G.L.O.B.A.L Rail Corp. (Goods Loaded On Bulk Allied Lines)
In earlier posts on this thread, I brought up reporting marks because if we went with a global rail entity, we would need reporting marks for the equipment.
If our railroads lease rolling stock from the parent corporation, we could assign the reporting marks to the locomotives like Pioneer Rail does with the Kendallville Terminal Railroad by putting it's leasing company reporting marks (PREX) on the side of the cab of its SW8.
I would also stick with a corporate name that would fit in an earlier time frame like Global Lines (GLRX) or Greenwich & Meridian Lines (GMLX). Lines was a more popular term versus industries or rail corporation.
May I also suggest corporate colors? I vote blue and yellow because it's so much easier to get rolling stock in those colors.
Mike Kieran Wrote:In earlier posts on this thread, I brought up reporting marks because if we went with a global rail entity, we would need reporting marks for the equipment.
If our railroads lease rolling stock from the parent corporation, we could assign the reporting marks to the locomotives like Pioneer Rail does with the Kendallville Terminal Railroad by putting it's leasing company reporting marks (PREX) on the side of the cab of its SW8.
I would also stick with a corporate name that would fit in an earlier time frame like Global Lines (GLRX) or Greenwich & Meridian Lines (GMLX). Lines was a more popular term versus industries or rail corporation.
May I also suggest corporate colors? I vote blue and yellow because it's so much easier to get rolling stock in those colors.
I'm glad to see you're giving thought to reporting marks and colors. One thing I do is to make my own decals using an inkjet printer. Yellow and blue are good colors to use on decals, which is one of the reasons that our Big Blue logo has yellow in it. The Blue, well that's our birthright.
We need to emphasis once again that we do want this road to be a separate entity from Big Blue or The Gauge. There is a whole spectrum of blue and even yellow though, but one thing at a time. Right now we're looking for a name that will work in any era or location. That's our focus. :ugeek:
Absolutely Don, It's just that I believe that image must also be considered in the concept. It helps shape the corporate vision because we are doing steam era and diesel eras.
Mike Kieran Wrote:Absolutely Don, It's just that I believe that image must also be considered in the concept. It helps shape the corporate vision because we are doing steam era and diesel eras.
Yup, lots to do when you're putting a business like this together. We did talk about having era specific set of heralds, not just one fits all. We're thinking about issuing stock certificates, and one thing just occurred to me, we may have to come up with a universal monetary system. The dollar, euro, krone, yen or peso may not work. We need something that floats on the world market, so we may need some suggestions on how to value our stock without getting arrested for selling false securities without a license.
Bernie Madoff, here we come.
How about the Sims currency, Simoleans. Aren't you glad that you opened that can of worms with the Pandora's Box label?
Mike Kieran Wrote:Absolutely Don, It's just that I believe that image must also be considered in the concept. It helps shape the corporate vision because we are doing steam era and diesel eras.
Not what you said, but what I thought ---
Steam and Diesel... but
that does not mean
Fossil fueled 
Just thought I'd check and see if anyone has come up with some new names for this new railway that we can consider. We've got some good suggestions, some that are serious, a few that are, shall we say, light-hearted. Let's think about this, since I guess the next step is going to be to choose a name.
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