Alphabet equal opportunity

[Sean Lamb]

(trains)
RAILROAD
Riding Along In Luxury, Railroads Often Are Delightful

(dinosaurs)
UTAHRAPTOR
Unusually Talented And Harsh Raptor Attacked Predators That Once Roamed
(The Utahraptor had a 15" claw on one toe of each hind foot; it's believed that this creature attacked others much larger than itself using these claws and its razor-sharp teeth as weapons)

(art)
DEPTH OF FIELD
Distinctly Elemental Photographic Technique Helps Offer Fine Focus In Every Little Detail
(beginning photography students learn that a smaller aperture gives a greater depth of field in their photos)

[omnicronos]

Ok - apronym virgin here. :-)

Here goes...
(art)
EASEL
Elevates Artists Sketch. Easily Luggable.

[Angela]

Welcome to apronymania, omnicronos! I would have responded earlier but I've been too busy to come up with the required apronyms.

(trains)
SAND DRAG
Stop And Not Derail Delinquent Railcars... A Godsend!

(according to http://www.glue-it.com/trains/general-information/glossary/glossary_frames.htm a Sand Drag
is a short length of railway track buried in sand, and running from a set of catch points. It is designed to bring runaway vehicles to a halt rather than derailing them.)

(dinosaurs)
VULCANODON
Very Unsophisticated Lizard, Certainly Ate No Other Dinosaurs. Outstretched Neck.

(art)
FORM
Figure Of Representational Medium

[omnicronos]

Thanks for the welcome. :-)
Looking at the hall of fame, I think a break after such prolific apronyming is probably forgivable.
You hall-of-famers do realise how intimidating clever wordsmiths are to the rest of us, right?

(dinosaurs)
WALKERIA
Was A Little Killer. Eventually Renamed. Is Alwalkeria.

(according to http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/glossary/indexw.shtml, Walkeria was a small bipedal carnivore. And, according to http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/dinos/de_4/5ce8942.htm, it changed its name in 1987 - just enough to avoid recursion)

[omnicronos]

Getting this easy one in before I miss the opportunity.

(art)
GOUACHE
Generations Old. Useful Artisans Colourant. Hydration Essential.

[omnicronos]

I thought I'd have a crack at this one, figuring that I'd rudely ignore the whole alphabetical order idea.
But, fortune has smiled on me... there was a nice gap.

ESCHER
Escher Sketches Cunningly Harness Expressive Recursion
(Note the deliberate recursion :-)

[Sean Lamb]

Okay, I'm back.  After a vacation to Seattle where I attended the National Model Railroad Association's national convention, and a rather busy time on my return, it's time to get back to the really important stuff.  B-)

(trains)
TRAIN
Transporting Resources And Interconnecting Nations

I wanted to do STEAM (Sometimes The Engines Are Magical), but someone else beat me to the S word.

(dinosaurs)
XIAOSAURUS
Xiaosaurus Is Another Ornithischian Species; All Uncovered Remains Unusually Small
(Xiaosaurus has only been found in fragments; it is estimated that this creature stood only 1.5 feet tall)

(art)
HOLOGRAPHY
Harnessing One's Laser, One Generates Really Artistic, Pleasing Holograms, Yes?

[Sean Lamb]

(trains)
UDE
Ultimate Deceleration Event
Untimely Disruption of Employment
(UDE is a railroad acronym for UnDesired Emergency, as in an event where the brake system on a train is set to the "Emergency" setting, bringing the train to a stop as absolutely soon as possible.  Most often a train is set into Emergency when a car is stopped on a railroad crossing or desides to drive around the gates; engineers in this situation are normally granted a psychological leave for a short period.)

(dinosaurs)
YAVERLANDIA
Yet Another Very Extinct Reptile. Little Animal Never Dwelled In Asia
(Yaverlandia, at 2' 3" tall, was discovered in Yaverland Battery on the Isle of Wight)

(art)
ICON
Image Connoting One's Notions

IKEBANA
It's Kado. Eclectic Botany, Artful New Arrangements
(Ikebana, also known as Kado, is the ancient Japanese art of formal floral arrangement)

[Hortensia]

My High School transcript query:

TSCMI

What does it stand for?






Hortensia

[Angela]

Perhaps:

This School Can Mark Incorrectly
They Say C Mark's Insufficient
Try Studying, Could Make Improvemenrt

[Sean Lamb]

> TSCMI

To Succeed, Cram Meaningless Information

[Angela]

Reporting live from the prestigious second leg of the first ever travelling apronymaniacs' conference...

> TSCMI

This Statement Contains Meaningless Initialism
This Should Confuse Mortal Individuals
This Scholar Could Make It
Transcripts Shouldn't Contain Meaningless Initialisms
Transcript's Shortened 'Cause Margin's Inadequate (Fermat could have invented these!)
To See College, Must Improve
This Student Creates Many Interruptions

[Sean Lamb]

> TSCMI

The Subject Confuses Me Immensely
Teachers Say "Consider My Instruction"
Teachers' Sacrifices Create Median Intelligences
Teaching Science Causes Mental Insanity

(and to think that I'm actually seriously considering pursuing a teaching credential..)

[Angela]

While sitting in a train next to Tony McCoy O'Grady, I remembered this thread. I should have mentioned it to him so we could brainstorm, but I didn't, so all I came up with was these:

VIEW: Vista In Every Window
WAITING ROOM: We Aren't In Train, I'm Now Getting Restless Over Our (Mis)adventure. (We missed the train we were supposed to be on by about a minute, and had to wait a few hours for the next one.)
WAGON: We Are Getting On Now.

And here are some for letters we've already done:

TRAIN: Two Rails Are Invariantly Near

LUAS: Locals Understand As 'Speed'
According to http://www.lrta.org/luasindex.html:

What does the name LUAS stand for? Luas is the Irish word for speed and so (as it is not an abbreviation) should be written Luas rather than L.U.A.S.

Well, we've proven them wrong!

All the signs on the train (and elsewhere) have English and Irish translations. On one I noticed that the translation of 'warning' was RABHADH, which I expanded to:

Read And Beware, Here Are Dire Hazards

Hopefully all this training will make up for the fact that I haven't continued the other threads. At least we're back on topic.