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Railroad Name Generator (manual edition) Dream and design
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Frequent poster 648 posts DougL Frequent poster 648 posts
DougL

The online railroad name generators do not fit my ideas of  proper USA railroad names. Here is a proposed rule set for generating fictitious RR names.  Insert your own place names and you are good to go.  A place name can be a city, state, river, mountain, or any geographic feature. 

Suggestions are encouraged.

Read it like this: [required], (optional), and commas indicate choices

  • [place name] [Railroad, RR, (Short) Line(s)]
  • [East(ern) , South(ern), West(ern), North(ern)] [place name] [Railroad, RR, (Short) Line(s)]
  • [place name] & [East(ern) , South(ern), West(ern), North(ern)] [Railroad, RR, (Short) Line(s)]
  • [place name] & [place name] [Railroad, RR, (Short) Line(s)]
  • [Port, Terminal] [place name] (Metropolitan) [Railroad, RR]
  • [place name](interurban, metropolitan)[Railroad, RR, Lines]

--  Doug -- Modeling the Norwottuck Railroad, returning trails to rails.
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David Husman dave1905 MRH Author 9,801 posts
David Husman dave1905

Or....

Pick a prototype.

Pick a location.

Look in the timetable.

There's your name.

Dave Husman

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wacampbell Active Member 44 posts
wacampbell

For [place name] you could

For [place name] you could further substitute

[name] + Valley, Mountain, Creek, River

 

eg Doug Creek Interurban Railway
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