I know of a narrow gauge

Mines, all mines.

I hope to have some mines on my layout when ever I get to build one again. They will all be owned by the Minol Mining Company. There will be at least two mines, the Itsol mine, and the Datol mine. There is talk of opening a third mind called the Yural Mine. All of these mine Greedium which looks a lot like coal but is really much more valuble.

Espen

Electrical Contractor

There used to be a an electrical contractor here in the PNW who's vans had the Slogan "We love to look into your shorts!"

A couple of mine.....

"Upthuh Creek"  Also, in the same vein as John Allen and the Akinbach Mtns. I used to call the mountain range on one of my N scale layouts  "The Sighatticas"  Yes that's the way I spelled them even though I'm driving the spell checker crazy right now. One last one that isn't mine but I heard way back and always got a chuckle from "Cinderella Shipping and Freight.  When it absolutely has to be there before midnight!"

Michael

Pun Names Used to be Popular

Back in the 50s and 60s pun and other cutesy names were popular.  I remember a few:

Driwrought Lumber Company

Barque & Knott Lumber Company

Rhea Produce Company

Thrust & Parry Fence Company

Goza-Ganstha Grain Coop

Miracle Chair Company (If it's a good chair, it's a Miracle)

But my favorite was the Carter's Little River Mills (sadly, only the older readers will likely get this one).

I have to admit, I'm using the Sean Cannery Company on my own layout.

Pun names=protypical

You still see pun based names, but here's one I haven't seen irl or online:

The local boxing gym, one of the best in the business--a great school of the sweet science:  Putahurton U.

I'm debating between that, and Murphy's Gym, as a tribute to the place I learned the fine art of boxing.

Unobtanium

Great name for what the mines on your railroad are putting in the cars if you can't decide between coal, iron ore or cinnabar.

Michael

names

I remember the miracle chair co being used to hide a hole in the backdrop on a layout years ago, I think the mags were about 60 cents then, and much thicker. One of John Armstrong's was the E-bolt hardware with the slogan nutz to you, Demaigne yard and the town of Bee Haven, every year they have a pageant and crown Miss Bee Haven. I am sure there are lots more.

Rob

I always liked

Dewey, Cheatum & Howe accountants service, and Id like to have next door to them the Chinese law office of Shi, Suemi & Wun.

Next to the boxing club

You might find the "Hard Knock Cafe"

From the VS CEO

Sir:

Railroading is a very serious business, and I assure you the Virginia Southern Railroad Company focuses on safety and proper customer service. The company has no time for silly names.

Thank you Sir:

Ray L. Ways

CEO, Virginia Southern Railroad.

**********************

I wonder if Ill get flamed?

some more i found

Hindenburger

Sofa So Good

Indiana Bones And The Temple Of Groom

Stubbs Prosthetics & Orthotics, Inc

The Wieners Circle

Stock broker mergers

I always thought when Merrill Lynch merged with Drexel Burnham that they should have named the new firm Lynch and Burnham ...

But I guess stock brokers have no sense of humor. (wink)

How about these guys

A friend . . .

More Names

Many years ago (1960s sometime), MR had an article on the West Agony and Inchoate, which included both the Laydee Zunder Warehouse and Goza-Gansha Grain in the main town of West Agony, which was of course designed as a switching puzzle where it could take forever to spot or pickup just a couple of cars. 

Sandy

http://www.sandysacerr.com 

Strange Names

There's a junk yard in Frederick, MD that use to be called "Reliable Junk".  I think the name has been changed to "Reliable Recycling".   When we lived in Winston-Salem, NC, the local Sealtest ice cream plant put out a product called "Autocrat Ice Cream".  I think they meant to call it "Aristocrat Ice Cream".  I mentioned it to a neighbor who worked at the plant.  He said he'd tell management, but thought they wouldn't make the correction until they used all the old containers.  We moved before they did.

Bob

Or, closer to home . .

Prototypical Silliness

Businesses with silly names are something prototype modellers need not worry about ...oh, wait!

May be stretching things

but I was always amused at seeing vans running about Vancouver labelled "Cromwell Restorations".       David

BAH

I picked up a lot of my equipment to start this hobby at an estate sale.  The layout was named the BAH - Between, Arock, & Hardspot.  They were the names of the three main towns on the layout.

Punny Names

Years ago when I lived in Campbellford, Ontario there were 2 doctors in town who opened a medical centre. Their names were Dr. Hacket and Dr. Mendum.

How about a dermatologist...

named Dr Rashley - absolutely true.

more names...

The Mircale Chair Co. that hid the hole in the backdrop was on Earl Smallshaw's layout.

On the BC&SJ

• Brough-Cann Glass Co.
• Pouhler Behr Cold Storage

The local folks have strange names, too..

• Manitz Daark - the electrician
• Mary Keigh - pink foam consultant
• Abe Euhnett - railroad engineer
• Ace Wheeler - railroad engineer
• Behl Righer - railroad engineer
• Dunstin M Oph - scene stylist for the local video company
• Erin D. Isseray - owner of the local hair cutting joint
• Gastonary Delyte - chef at the Bear Creek Grill
• Xavier Muney - proprietor of the local clothing store
• Steve A Doorh - employee of the J.S. Barge Service Co.

and of course

• Horace Fithers - general know it all and good buddy of the superintendent of nearly everything

'Tis a silly place...

Charlie