Stupid Railroad names

[Anonymous]

CSX + UP should be Chesapeake and Pacific...

[Anonymous]

Many railroads were named more out of ambition than to where they actually ran. For example:
The Chicago Rock Island & Pacific - As close to the Pacific it got was Denver
A Southern Railway predecessor, The Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas
Pacific - It never got to NO much less Texas or the Pacific
The St. Louis-San Francisco - It stopped about 1200 miles short of SF
The Texas & Pacific - It got as close to the Pacific as El Paso

On the other hand some roads were overly descriptive such as the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis which in short order was called the Big Four.
The New York (Buffalo) , Chicago & St. Louis which (because of NYCL) was better known as the Nickle Plate,

[zwspnby9]

For your information you...
The santa Fe has helped BN progress thier revenues so that the railroad can grow and prosper. And its not just BN. It's BNSF. Don't even know what the name of the company is that you work for? That is very sad. On now with your little life on the OT SUB.

[THayman]

QUOTE: Originally posted by espeefoamer

UPs new slogan could be,"Buying America one Railroad at a time.
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Amen to that one!!!!

[CNW 6000]

QUOTE: Originally posted by railfanespee4449

CNW + UP

Pacific Northwestern

Not bad...

[Anonymous]

BNSF Railway would come across a bit differently if there were a few more letters of the previous nomenclature added back into the current name.

The BURN SAFE Railway


[tup]

Andrew N.F.

[Anonymous]

CSX Chicago, Atlantic and Eastern RR
UP Building America's Slowest Rail System
BNSF Chicago & South Pacific
NS Southeastern & Midwestern

[railfanespee4449]

CNW + UP

Pacific Northwestern

[WSOR 3801]

CN should be Canadian Central, after buying Wisconsin Central and Illinois Central.

[Anonymous]

Don't let anyone fool you -
CSX = Confederate States (and other, lesser, midwest and dang-Yankee states)
The south shall rise again!

Actually, I prefer CSX - Crash, Smash, and X-plode.

[Kevin C. Smith]

I mentioned one time before (and I know you all read and save all my posts...) the local predecessor to the C&NW Ry. though my hometown, the Saint Paul and Eastern Grand Trunk. It never got within 200 miles of Saint Paul (MN), built from it's eastern terminus (Oconto, WI) west, was never anything approaching grand and pretty much lived and died as a branchline. The "and" seemed OK, though.

[trainfan1221]

When railroads first started, they could be named anything while waiting to be made part of a bigger system, it seemed.

[Anonymous]

New name for CSX:

NORFOLK AND WAY RAILWAY

SLOGAN:

NEED IT OVERNITE - NORFOLK AND WAY

DOUG

[MStLfan]

Every time I see a picture of a locomotive with RJ Corman on it's side I wonder if RJ himself is at the throtle...
Where can I find that railroad?
Must be cool to see your name on a locomotive in those big letters.
greetings
Marc Immeker

[zardoz]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Murphy Siding

piouslion , how did you post this tommorrow. June 11 already?

June 11, 2004

[carnej1]

Guilford transportation/Pan American Railways, enough said........

[chemung]

QUOTE: Originally posted by oltmannd

QUOTE: Originally posted by dmoore74

QUOTE:
BNSF is actually the amalgamation of three RR names: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Northern Pacific, and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, with some other mergers thrown in, I think.

440cuin

Actually Burlington Northern was an amalgation of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Northern Pacific, Great Northern and the Spokane, Portland & Seattle.
The original name proposed was Great Northern Pacific & Burlington. I'm sure all the sign painters would have loved that one.

It's kinda funny how "Burlington" got top billing over Chicago and Quincy in CB&Q. Sort of like "Santa Fe", I suppose. Chicago is still THE RR city (at least for frt) - and nobody has it in their name, tho' we do have Burlington, Norfolk and Santa Fe represented....

Burlington got the billing,but old time CB&Q railroaders called it the "The Q".What road do you work for?I am a brakeman on the Q.

Dave W.
Omaha

[upchuck]

[%-)] The Amboye & Kelso Pacific

[Lord Atmo]

i've heard some lame accronyms in my time. who here wants some Fresh Air Ram Technology? not i... maybe some Pre Owned Office Products?

i second the idea for UP to be renamed the Pacific Omaha Overland. Furthering America's Railroad Transportation Systems. we cut through the night like the breaking wind!

boy i wonder how many ES44DCs and SD70ACEs it'll take to clean THAT mess up...

then again, check my signature out[;)]

[greyhounds]

Well, I hate to see historic names like "Santa Fe'' and "Burlington Route" go byby - but one has to change with the times.

Since the airline has been merged away, a far better name than 'BNSF' (yetch, ick, awful!) would be "America West".

[Anonymous]

The Pacific Great Eastern was a name that made sense to those living in Vancouver.

To the rest of North America it sounded and still sounds strange.

That strange sounding combination of words was clearly what prompted them to change to the stronger and more appropriate British Columbia Railway.

British Columbia Railway is a much better choice than Pacific Great Eastern for helping sell your Province and services.

Andrew Falconer

[waltersrails]

csx back to the chessie system

[gradyo54]

I think I remember reading in TRAINS before the merger that the AT&SF no longer ran to any of it's namesake cities. I may be wrong.

[Anonymous]

A unit rack train service could be called CARGO.

[Anonymous]

Santa Fe sold off the connection to Santa Fe years ago, but the name is catchy.

Burlington was not the biggest city on the BN, but that was catchy at the time.

BNSF is based out of Fort Worth and the most of the railroad is NorthWest of Fort Worth.

Fort Worth & NorthWestern is a possible name.

Yes, it is similar to other railroads, but the big railroad usually has more say in the name choice.

Andrew Falconer

[Tharmeni]

When I was an officer with the BN, I went to a series of meetings discussing a possible merger with the UP. At one of them, they distributed note pads reading "Burlington Northern Union Pacific Railroad". I 've kept mine and I always regret there was no "BNUPRR". I just like the sound of that when you pronounce it.

[Anonymous]

The most aptly named railroad I have ever had the pleasure of photographing was the Texas Mexican Railway...that is now gone as it is a sub-sid of Kanas City Southern now! Strange to note the that rail line connects Laredo and Corpus Christi, Texas and has trackage rights only to about Houston.

[Junctionfan]

How about a merger of the Board of Railways Association International Network or B.R.A.I.N for short? Then you get B.R.A.I.N.F.A.R.T.S

[eolafan]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dave9999

QUOTE: Originally posted by macguy

QUOTE: Originally posted by dave9999

QUOTE: Originally posted by Hugh Jampton

UP could easily become: Pacific Omaha Overland
A good slogan would be: Furthering America's Railroad Transportation System

Of course this would be too much to paint on the side of a locomotive, so they'd have to use acronyms.

Hugh,
Those acronyms would really stink.[;)] Dave

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It took me a while on that one, before I could figure out why nobody would want "POO" on the sides of all their locomotives.

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Furthering America's Railroad Transportation System or "F.A.R.T.S".
"We ride through the night like the breaking wind" would make a nice slogan. [8D]Dave

Now THAT really is a good one...tip of hte proverbial hat on that one!