I always thought that "the route of the dashing commuter" was interesting.
I have several favorites, among them are: "The trip that bankrupts the English language" from the long gone Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek District Railway, AKA, The Short Line, "The Pikes Peak Route" from the Colorado Midland Railway, "Cripple Creek Scenic Line" and Ute Indian Trail Route" from the Midland Terminal Railway, and "America's Scenic Line" from my layout, the Colorado Midland, Midland Terminal, and Short Line, (CM, MT, & SL) my fictional merger of all three of these roads.
mine is "as long as there's a U.S.A, Espee will haul the freight"
Don't know if it's an official slogan or not, I guess it's just a line from the "roll on" song
sad it didn't age well tho
i visited Eugene station back in 2016, saw a cascades train and some UP freight trains, but i should really have paid a visit to the Oregon Rail Heritage Center to see the 4449 Daylight. I'm also from Corvallis, OR, near Albany, so it just feels right to root for a railroad that goes (went) through your neighboring county.
The Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern was known as the "Pretty Slow and Noisy."
The Pittsburg & Shawmut was known as the "Push and Shove". They hostled hundreds of 100 ton hoppers every evening and the bang, bang, bang,bang.....of them taking up the slack could be heard all over town.
Robert H. Shilling II
I always got a kick out of this one A&SS Allegheny & South Side
slogan... Always Satisfactory Service
Weather or no, Go New Haven. In the unpredictable weather of New England, it's hard to argue with that logic.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Central Railroad of New Jersey .... the "Big Little Railroad"
Little Timmy My own railroad, the Demons Hollow & Pacific , has the following slogan... "If it's got paint on it... it ain't ours
The slogan for my freelanced anthracite hauler, The Grey Mountain & Dalton RR, is "the Stone Coal Line" - intended to imply a sense of longevity. Disgruntled employees call it "the Stone-Cold Line."
Jim
Well the Baltimore and Ohio used the image of the US capitol in it's logo/herald. It was designed by Otto Kuhler. They also used a version of it for one of their trains, the Capitol Limited.
https://i.etsystatic.com/14437858/r/il/451fb9/4284168622/il_794xN.4284168622_du9u.jpg
https://borailroad.blogspot.com/2009/03/capitol-dome-logo.html
Does anyone know what railroad used the slogan on some boxcars
"The Capital Line" ?
I got a quick glimpse of one on a you tube video about a restored Southern Mike #4105. The Video is called "And then there was one"
It is shown at about 9 minutes 40 seconds following an A-B-A lashup of Southern Cab diesels. I have never seen this slogan / logo before. Please help with a response if you know.
Thanks Mr. Bill
Ed,That is one sharp looking caboose. Atlas did D&TSL GP7s and I almost bought two but,decided not to. As late as 2010 I seen D&TSL 2 bay coveed hoppers on the NS always running in threes.. I notice they came through Bucyrus on Saturdays heading East. These was the same three cars so,I suspect it was a short haul with a quick turn around.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
BRAKIEDetroit & Toledo Shore Line Expressway For Industry.
DTSL_120cab by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
SCL Service Customers Like.
Detroit & Toledo Shore Line Expressway For Industry.
Wabash Follow The Flag.
A & W The West Point Route.
Columbus & Greenville Through The Heart Of Dixie.
shawneeI never got Tony Koester's slogan for his much-publicized Allegheny Midland, "The Midland Road". Doesn't conjure much of anything.
That wasn't a slogan, it was a nickname...similar to how the Minneapolis, St.Paul & Sault Ste. Marie RR was nicknamed "The Soo Line" ("Sault" is pronounced like the name "Sue") or the Missouri-Kansas-Texas was called "The Katy" or "Miss Katy" (for it's "M-K-T" freight car markings).
IIRC, the New York Chicago and St.Louis RR was nicknamed "The Nickel Plate" based on articles and promises to potential investors about how well it would be built. In the 19th century, saying something was "nickel plated" was a way of saying something was the best, the 'top of the line'. Kinda like saying something is "the gold standard" of whatever.
I'm sure many people seeing freight cars on my layout with my freelance St Paul Route's "Route of the Famous Lake Superior Limited" slogan think it is adapted it from Northern Pacific's "Route of the Vista-Dome North Coast Limited" slogan of the 1950's-60's...but it isn't.
My free-lance railroad is based on two real railroads that merged out of existence in 1900. (In my world they merged with each other instead of being taken over by two larger railroads, NP and CN.) The one that was taken over by NP, the St Paul & Duluth, had as it's flagship passenger train the Lake Superior Limited, and used the "Route of the Famous Lake Superior Limited" slogan on stationary and advertising in the 1890's.
As it happens, NP didn't introduce the North Coast Limited until a few months after buying the St.P & D. Who knows, maybe in reality NP's later slogan was inspired by the old St.Paul & Duluth slogan?
Some slogans from the 1960s are also interesting.
ACL, Another Cushioned Load
SCL, Smooth Cushiond Load
CRR, Clinchfield Cushion Car
FGE, For Greatest Efficiency
MEC, Modern Efficient Cushioning
MEC, Prime Mover for Maine Industry
GM&O, Cushioned for a Soft Ride ....Inside
RI, cushion car- A Soft Touch for freight
SAL, Cushion Underframe for Perfect Product Protection
Soo, Custom Equipped for Custom Service
SeeYou190 Water Level Route Surprised nobody mentioned Pennsylvania's "Standard Railroad of the World" slogan. . Was that ever their slogan? I do not remember ever seeing it painted on anything or in print. . -Kevin .
Water Level Route Surprised nobody mentioned Pennsylvania's "Standard Railroad of the World" slogan.
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Was that ever their slogan? I do not remember ever seeing it painted on anything or in print.
-Kevin
That self proclaimed slogan was real but,I think it was used on business cards.. PRR did use "Don't Stand Me Still" slogan on some 40' boxcars.
Water Level RouteSurprised nobody mentioned Pennsylvania's "Standard Railroad of the World" slogan.
Living the dream.
A pretty corny one, but the public would remember:
CSSnSB_111 by Edmund, on Flickr
Chicago, South Shore and South Bend, 1972.
Regards, Ed
I like practically all of UP's slogans...
I'm beginning to realize that Windows 10 and sound decoders have a lot in common. There are so many things you have to change in order to get them to work the way you want.
"We may be slow and incompetent, but we make up for it by being overpriced."
LINK to SNSR Blog
How many other railroads had their own airforce and navy and hotel chain?
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Surprised nobody mentioned Pennsylvania's "Standard Railroad of the World" slogan. I always loved that one.
Mike
My favourite prototype and hometown railroad was the Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo, but the TH&B never had a slogan.It was, however, also known colloquially as both the "To Hell & Back" and as the "Tramps, Hoboes & Bums.
Wayne
That would be Dashing Dottie. (My FIL was a lifetime employee, retiring in '73.)
Those are cool, but I'm partial to "The Water Level Route".
A few years ago during the great Texas freight meltdown, this one floated: "You can't spell stupid without UP". I'm not a UP hater, but this was just too funny.
Genesee Terminal, freelanced HO in Upstate NY ...hosting Loon Bay Transit Authority, run through Amtrak and CSX Intermodal
CP/D&H, N scale, somewhere on the Canadian Shield
Stockton, Terminal and Eastern
The slow, tired and easy
WP Lives
wgnrr Chicago & North Western = Cheap and Nothing Wasted I don't care if it wasn't an official slogan, but it did fit the road perfectly well. They gave their tired GP7's a new life by rebuilding them with new prime movers, a low nose, and new electrical components. The ties on their track were in place until they absolutly had to be replaced. That would be the reason why I see so many '58 C&NW date nails in northern Wisconsin. Depots can be placed in this category too. They didn't tear down all of their depots. They did interior renevations (Well, at least the Oxford depot was rebuilt) and they were given a new coat of grey paint and used as M-O-W offices. Most of the lines in Wisconsin still had Semaphore siginals and ancient crossing protection well into the late 80's (not to say others didn't too, but these were well maintained). Wig-Wags could be found at Baraboo, and other towns. And I am sure I am missing a ton of things, but the Cheap and Nothing Wasted will always be a true feature of the once mighty Chicago and North Western. Phil
Chicago & North Western = Cheap and Nothing Wasted
I don't care if it wasn't an official slogan, but it did fit the road perfectly well. They gave their tired GP7's a new life by rebuilding them with new prime movers, a low nose, and new electrical components. The ties on their track were in place until they absolutly had to be replaced. That would be the reason why I see so many '58 C&NW date nails in northern Wisconsin.
Depots can be placed in this category too. They didn't tear down all of their depots. They did interior renevations (Well, at least the Oxford depot was rebuilt) and they were given a new coat of grey paint and used as M-O-W offices.
Most of the lines in Wisconsin still had Semaphore siginals and ancient crossing protection well into the late 80's (not to say others didn't too, but these were well maintained). Wig-Wags could be found at Baraboo, and other towns.
And I am sure I am missing a ton of things, but the Cheap and Nothing Wasted will always be a true feature of the once mighty Chicago and North Western.
Phil
Missed this back when it first appeared. Any C & NW employee I ever met said it stood for Cheap and Nothing Works.
Jeff
NP: Main street of the Northwest and Route of the North Coast Limited.
RF&P Linking North and South.
A&R Road of personalized service.
A few I came across recently:
Cotton_Belt by Edmund, on Flickr
DTnI_logo by Edmund, on Flickr
TPnW_621 by Edmund, on Flickr
And the ever-popular Wellsville, Addison and Galeton slogan:
WAG_6075 by Edmund, on Flickr
I remember seeing quite a few of these cars still running in the early 1970s. I believe they leased them to the Penn-Central.
WAG_OB by Edmund, on Flickr
WAG served a few tanneries on the line, hence the "Sole-Leather-Line".
Here are a few....
When I back-dated my layout's era, many of the above cars had lettering which was too modern, and I either stripped and re-painted them, using older-style lettering, or sold or gave them away.