Here's a Slogan game that makes you think. A lot of these slogan appears on HO 40' boxcars..
1. Don't Stand Me Still.
2. Route Of The Robert E. Lee
3.West Point Route.
4 Around-not through Chicago.
5. The Good Track Road.
6.Main Line of Mid-America
7.The Natchez Route
8. The Dixie Line
9. The Shawmutt Line
10. Cotton for the looms of West Point.
11. Spans The World
12.Follow The Flag!
13. Main Street of the Northwest
14 The Alton Route
15.Route of the Whippet.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
"Route of the Whippet." ?? That would be the Rutland, of course!
"Spans The World"
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
BRAKIE1. Don't Stand Me Still.
This has been stenciled on some of the PRR LCL cars.
BRAKIE12.Follow The Flag!
The WABASH Flag!
BRAKIE5. The Good Track Road.
Grand Trunk Western?
That's all I got from memory —
Regards, Ed
Two of the slogans were used by railroads that are still in existence under their same names, while one slogan was used by two different railroads, neither of which exist today. Can anyone identify those railroads?
4. is Elgin, Juliet, and Eastern
6. is Illinois Central
12. is Wabash (someone already mention that)
13. is Northern Pacific (also mentioned before)
14. must be the Alton railroad... what else would it be?
Regards, Isaac
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#8 is the Louisville & Nashville.
Mike
1. Don't Stand Me Still! MDC/Roundhouse -modified doors
2. Route Of The Robert E. Lee Athearn RTR
4. Around-not through Chicago Athearn RTR
5. The Good Track Road MDC/Roundhouse
6. Main Line of Mid-America Athearn BB
8. The Dixie Line Accurail
13. Main Street of the Northwest Athearn BB
Unfortunately, 50-foot cars were mixed. Show us another models.
BRAKIE10. Cotton for the looms of West Point.
#10: I assume they are talking about West Point, Georgia, where the big Kia automobile assembly plant is now. That used to be a big cotton town.
West point is also on the Alabama border. So it might have been an Alabama railroad.
I have never heard this slogan, but I am going to guess CENTRAL OF GEORGIA, although there might have been a local lline I am unaware of.
Please let me know if I am correct.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
SeeYou190I have never heard this slogan, but I am going to guess CENTRAL OF GEORGIA, although there might have been a local lline I am unaware of.
My guess would be Atlanta & West Point
Wayne
doctorwayneMy guess would be Atlanta & West Point
That is an obviously better guess than mine.
I am sure I could research it online, but it is more fun to kick ideas around.
doctorwayne SeeYou190 I have never heard this slogan, but I am going to guess CENTRAL OF GEORGIA, although there might have been a local lline I am unaware of. My guess would be Atlanta & West Point Wayne
SeeYou190
A&WP was #3 - West Point Route.
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=awp38011&o=awp
Chris van der Heide
My Algoma Central Railway Modeling Blog
Guys, I will reveal the road names Sunday 6/21.
#3, "The West Point Route" was used by both the Atlanta & West Point RR and the Western Railway of Alabama. Together they functioned as The West Point Route, becoming a part of the Family Lines and eventually a CSX component.
#7, "The Natchez Route" is the Mississippi Central, one of the two railroads on the list that still operate under their name that was in use during the era of the slogan. The other would be Canadian Pacific and "Spans The World".
#8, "The Dixie Line" was originally used by the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis. When the NC&StL became a part of the Louisville & Nashville around 1957, L&N continued the use of the slogan.
#9, Pittsburg(no "h") & Shawmut. A coal hauler in western Pennsylvania.
#10."Cotton for the Looms of West Point" was the slogan of the now defunct and ripped up Chattahoochee Valley Railroad which was a shortline that did as the slogan said, serving the mills of West Point, Georgia.
Thanks for the recall of a time when railroads weren't ashamed of who they were or what they did.
You can't forget "Route of the black diamond".
There are many more. What a great thread!
Thanks Brakie.
Greatest slogan ever:
Route Of The Dashing Turtle
Here's the railroad
1. PRR in the late 50s early 60s seeing "Don't Stand Me Still" was common.
2.Seaboard.
3.Alanta & West Point and Western Ry of Alabama.
4. EJ&E
5.Grand Trunk.
6. I.C
7.Mississippi Central
8.NC&St.L and after the L&N/NC&St.L merger L&N.
9.Pittsburg & Shawmut
10.Chattahoochee Valley.
11.CP
12.Wabash
13. NP
14 GM&O
15 Rutland.
Before I changed eras many of my 40' boxcars had those slogans.
Larry: Thank you, this was an enjoyable discussion.
Why can't we keep it going? Maybe a round 2 featuring billboard cars or some passenger equipment?
Pete
SeeYou190Greatest slogan ever: Route Of The Dashing Turtle
Come to think of it, why not open this up to famous model slogans on a Model Railroader forum?
The Turtle Creek logo was notable for the play on words: not just presumably fast, but debonair: I recall the logo looking something like a chelonian Mr. Peanut. That was CERTAINLY not a double entendre for the LIRR's Dashing Dan, who was anything but a sartorial fashion plate even before he started to catch his train...
Second section of slogans seen on railroad equipment. Identify the railroads:
1. Linking 13 Great States with the Nation
2. Direct Route Linking East-North-West
3. Port St. Joe
4. Serving Southern Forests
5. The Champagne Trail
6. Serves the Steel Centers
7. Better by a Dam Site
8. Trees Are America's Renewable Resource
9. Southwide
10. Route of the Challengers
11. Lake Huron Shore Line
12. Route Superior Gateway for Superior Service
13. Speedway to America's Playground
14. To and From Dixieland
15. Serving the Heart of America
16. Rides Like A Feather
17. The Right Way
18. The Carolina Route
Which railroads are still in service and, which no longer operate? What was the fate of the fallen flags?
3. Appalachicola Northern
5. Bath & Hammonsport
7. Chattahoochee Industrial
16. Western Pacific
17. Central of Georgia
To move this along a bit: (1) is B&O, and there is a picture logo that goes with. B&O became a decided junior partner in Chessie System and of course now CSX.
(10) would be Union Pacific -- a bit of a play on words as they had both passenger trains and famous locomotives with the Challenger name.
(16) is Western Pacific, which I think was rolled into the Rio Grande in the Anspach years, thence to SP and after 1996 UP.
NHTX1. Linking 13 Great States with the Nation
I have several B&O cars, but none with the slogan...
NHTX6. Serves the Steel Centers
That'd be the P&LE, although my boxcar pre-dates the slogan...
NHTX12. Route Superior Gateway for Superior Service
That's the Duluth South Shore & Atlantic, as on this boxcar...
NHTX13. Speedway to America's Playground
That would be the Florida East Coast, an example of which I don't have, with or without the slogan.
NHTX14. To and From Dixieland
...is for the Nashville Chatanooga & St. Louis....I was sure that I had a model of it with the slogan, but it's possible that I have the lettering, and have not yet built the model.
NHTX15. Serving the Heart of America
...is a Wabash slogan. I did have some with the slogan but sold them when I backdated my layout's era. None of my current Wabash cars have the slogan.
...and also knew numbers 7, 10, & 16.
Wayne, The "Linking 13 Great States With The Nation" was seen in the early Capitol dome emblem on locomotives, cabooses and some boxcars.
Sadly, this emblem was replaced with a simple capitol dome in a plain circle.
There was a short lived "sun burst" circle with capitol emblem on new GP30s, few E and F units and one older Geep. The Sunburst emblem was replaced with B&O's standard circle with capitol dome embem.
BRAKIE"Linking 13 Great States With The Nation" was seen in the early Capitol dome emblem on locomotives, cabooses and some boxcars.
Yeah, I seem to recall owning a boxcar (perhaps Athearn) that included that slogan.
BRAKIE....There was a short lived "sun burst" circle with capitol emblem on new GP30s...
I was sure that I had a couple photos of a GP30 with the sunburst on the front of the hood, but my photobucket album doesn't currently show them. This would likely have been in the late '70s or early '80s, and oddly enough, in my hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, at the loco servicing area on Chatham St.
A few minutes ago, there was one photo available with the Capitol Dome herald on the front, but when I went back to get it to post here, it was no longer available.
If folks thought the old photobucket to be screwed-up, I'd suggest not looking at the most recent version. When I stop posting photos here, you'll understand why.
Here's one example of the "13 States" emblem:
BnO_I-13_C1819b by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed