Names for the Model Train Gods?

Greg Easterbrook, an editor and author for many prestigious magazines, and a columnist at nfl.com, claims he invented the football gods in 2000.

I invented the Model Train gods in 1972, upon my entry into this esoteric and then-impractical scale of 1:160. My first god was Bernardo, after my older brother, the electronics guru, who diagrammed a transistor circuit for me that taught me about electronics, and started a new career that is still flourishing in 2006.

I've also talked about the Track gods, who visit insults onto anyone who boasts how good his/her trackwork is. There are probably Switch Machine gods, Steam gods, Diesel gods, Power gods, etc.

I'd like to assemble a pantheon of model railroad gods. This is your chance to be creative. Pooooof! is probably the god of unprotected switch machines, for example.

I have my own candidates, but I'd like to see what the collective wit of this board can come up with! So, let's go--

[ January 17, 2006, 11:17 PM: Message edited by: Pete Nolan ]

 

The god Katopatis, for example, is the god of fussy C-axle diesels.

The god of Katoarrugh, for example, is the god of detail parts that fly intergalactic distances when unsuccessfully applied to a boiler.

The goddess Cannotrede controls blown decoders.

[ January 17, 2006, 11:21 PM: Message edited by: Pete Nolan ]

 

Pete,
I'm pretty amused with cannotrede. Now that's funny.

 

I would say the god LOKI is one of the pantheon, both for the name and function.
The Norse god of mischief is alive and well on most model railroads.

Bob in IDaho

 

Pete,
I like the idea, but here's how I picture the following:

Pooof: The God of smoked DCC decoders. God only know we've all done it at least once! Haven't we??

Fffffttt: God of burnt out light bulbs!
Bulbs can be either accessory(structure) bulbs, OR DCC locomotive headlight, passenger or caboose lights, without use of proper resistor.

 

I'm pretty familiar with Gravitus, a lower god that pulls things down to the world below the layout. Lady Luck has been know to intervene, but generally Smashius Maximus is usually waiting at the bottom.

 

I would nominate OPTIBORE and PESSIBORE as the Ying/Yang twins in haphazard control
of all hidden track.
I capitalized their names in hopes they would continue to look favorably on my feeble attempts at predictability

[ January 18, 2006, 03:38 AM: Message edited by: Helitack ]

 

What would one name the gods that screw everything up when someone is watching even though they ran find 2 mintues before?

 

Steve, I believe that one is the Mayan God Coocoochoochoo

 

Magnetdefyeus ruleth over my Accumates.

 

Lets see. There be Stikietous the God of ACC that when not appeased causes that little part to stick eveywhere you don't want it, very firmly.

Wherzzit the God of misplaced tools and parts you had 30 secs. ago.

Arrrrgggh. The God of total frustration and disgust, that is implored when you've just cut twenty pieces that don't fit, and realized you measured wrong.

Frustrateeous, brother of Arrrgggh, that comes into play when everything worked right up to complete reassembly and placement upon test track, whereupon it doesn' t work.

And last but not least the Queen of the Gods:
Dementia Alzenheimus Crs. Usually displays her wrath and dissatisfaction upon a trip to the LHS, whereupon returning from, you find that you got everything but what you went for in the first place.

 

Fuzzus Wuzzus is the one who allows your wheelsets to roll freely, or in the alternative will clog your trucks with a a teensy piece of springy carpet fuzz.

 

You are a bunch of heathens.

 

I am familiar with Gravitus. Gravitus has claimed 2 locos on my family's layouts. LadyLuck intervened only once.

Mr Incredible is the patron saint of the modeler who can successfully apply kato detail parts.

KeyBrassimus Maximus is the god of detailing.

Timus Toolimus is the god of remotoring/regearing locos (more power!)

Dave (is not the god of anything!)

 

Oh no not criticism of the devoted faithful of the N Scale Train Gods and other denzions of the workbench and layout.

Gazing into my jar of Floquil Paint Thinner and the swirling specks of paint I see an image forming of clouds over your house. Wait, is that the crankpin of the third driver on the fireman's side of your 2-8-0 I see flying off into neverland? Ohh I can't look anymore. Hmm there is hope though. Send me that MDC 2-6-0 and I'll offer it as a sacrifice to appease the N Scale Gods.

Hmm I see the clouds have parted here, my Micro Kristal Klear replacement windows in the Moose are drying in record time, with no air bubbles yet.
Ahh the Gods favor my defense of them. Maybe its time to go out into the backyard and dance around the fire in my goat leggings in celebration.

Insert press clipping here [ County PD haul off local idiot for mental evaluation. Found dancing around fire in backyard dressed in nothing but goat leggings, muttering something about keeping the model railroad gods happy].

 

I figure that COUNTUS RIVETANUS is the god of the Prototype Police.

 

You only need 1 name to cover everything that could, can or will go wrong, and that name is "Murphy".

 

ac60cw - I thought he was the one supreme god over all others. You know, the big guy calling the shots.