crossed palm trees

I've got a feeling I saw the crossed palm trees somewhere, that someone else is using that. Neil in Hawaii maybe?

1+1+1= A Name...Maybe

Model Railroader had an article 40+ years ago when I was in high school on how to go about naming a railroad. It helped me to name my freelanced road at the time by using " City Name / Region / Direction" .  There were maybe a dozen derivatives of this they had listed.  I ended up with "The New York, Allegheny & Western" - NYA&W, which in my world was a coal hauling bridge route.  I lettered some half dozen locos and cabooses.  Placed the call letters on the cab sides and "ALLEGHENY" on the long hood.  

Palm Trees in the logo

Not in my logo but I did find a lot of great examples online. Here are a couple from etsy:  Palm trees on the beach

I've Got A Name

"Like the pine (palm) trees linin' the windin' road
I've got a name, I've got a name"

Apologies, Jim Croce

that song

Yeah, I was remembering that song when I wrote the thread title, almost looked up a link to it, but didn't bother. 

for example

Just a quick hack job in mspaint, it wouldn't do rotated letters, but this is the idea. I found the crossed palms on a free clipart site and added the rings and letters.

TB&L RR

EW--

I like it!  Keep working on it!

City Name / Region / Direction

City Name / Region / Direction  came too late for me.
"TBNL" does have a ring to it.

Cute names

Before you actually paint things, will you be happy with a "cute" name 5 years from now?

I know a couple modelers that chose "cute" names and after a few years the joke became wore out and they regretted the choice. 

What does TB&L stand for in the "real" world?

Now that Jim Croce song is going through my head!

Topic title reminds me of a Jim Croce song "I've got a name".  Damnit!  Now that song is going through my head!

Cute fatigue

Reportedly John Allen had regrets about the name “Gorre and Daphitid” for just that reason.

TB&L isn’t quite so in your face cute though, and if you get tired of explaining To Be Named Later you could always come up with something else for the letters to stand for. 

Reportedly John Allen had

I can believe it.

In my younger days, I would try to pronounce it as if the e was silent as in Gore and the second daf i tid (short i).  Even if you pronounce it as intended, it always seemed a bit too cutsie to me as well.  But I was never a "convert".

1+1+1=3 maybe

I named my railroad for the state I live in, a state I like and which way the railroad runs and called it Rwy. to signify an older established road.  The factious road started down in Virginia's coal fields, came up through NY,  through Vermont on to Portland Maine hauling coal to keep the New Englanders warm in the winter months. The herald has a diamond in the circle denoting coal, or Route of the Black Diamonds. Sort of a take off from the LV famous train The Black Diamond since part of my factious line uses the LV route from P&L Junction in Caledonia, NY to Geneva, NY. It took a long time to develop the name and herald.

Bernd

fatigue

TB&L sounds good, and I've got a cute answer as to what it stands for until I figure something better out. But it doesn't have anything to do with palm trees, so there's that.

I'm not  about to start painting all my rolling stock, so I think there's no worry about the name getting stale. I will have a long time before it matters. It's just a working name for now, better than nutin. (BTN RR).

I'm definitely slow, I have never figured out how I'm supposed to pronounce Gorre. Daphitid I figured out, but couldn't get Gorre to bend to anything that made sense with Daphitid. So somebody enlighten me please. I suppose I want to know. I think. Neither Gore nor Gory seems to fit with defeated.

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crossed palm trees ?

Is this layout set in the tropics? or maybe So.Cal?.....DaveB

TB&L, CB&L

The physical location of the layout is Cancun, Mexico. The setting is, kinda I dunno. I was going to do something based on the C&O and coal hauling, but decided I'd rather have the ocean view from my apartment as a backdrop than make all those trees, so I haven't figured it all out yet. I need to make up some kind of a story where the C&O bought a Mexican railroad or something silly like that.

It crossed my mind to change the name to CB&L, then it could stand for Cancun Beach & Lagoon. I'm actually located between the beach and lagoon, so that fits.

There's no coal around here though. So there's confusion between the physical location of the layout and the setting of the layout, at least so far.

Florida East Coast Railway logo

The FEC logo used until late 1960s when the Going Places in Florida (often mistakenly called Hurricane) logo was introduced featured a palm tree on beach

You could

call it the HC.  While there's a real prototype, called the Huron Central, in your case that could be...\

Hurricane Central.

It fits.

Blair

well.. it reminds me of

a street that paralleled a highway, but had no developments on it...

NO NAME Street

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Must be a be a Jimmy Buffet song in there some where! 

Gory it is

It’s pronounced “Gory and Defeated”. 

Name

I like the initials, and you never need to name the places the letters MAY stand for. Or like the former Redskins.....who cares! 

name

As for a name how about California Arizona Nevada RR. The CAN, the can do RR.