My parents have a cat a little over a yr old that I found by the trks at work Nov, 2013. We picked him up, put him in in the eng and rode w/ us rest of day. Since it was found by the trks, rescued by trainmen and rode on a train, I picked the name of Frisco. Now the cat is ill w/ a rare form of kidney failure that is only a matter of time. My dad really became attached to Frisco. They have already talked on getting another cat later on and dad wants to give it a rr name. What would be good options for a rr name for a cat? Frisco will be retired, they have had a Katy cat in the past. Hmm. Any suggestions here?To all pet owners: hug your pets, tell them you love them.
Of course, Chessie comes to mind, but you would probably prefer a name associated with your area. How about Casey S. ?
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I was thinking chessie too.Mookie is already taken.
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Joe
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Chessie's companion Peake
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Phoebe Snow would work for a female with white fur.
We have a Katy-the-kitty-cat. Do you think "Nellie Bly" would work?
How about Wabash?
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BaltACD Chessie's companion Peake
Chief ?
Fred or Harvey ?
Raton ?
Chico ?
Pullman ? (OK, maybe not the best . . . )
Have you tried googling "Cat Railroad names"?
or checked: http://www.funcatnames.com/
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
Catanooga-chew-chew?
Casey Jones
I once had a gray cat called Smokey (for the steam fans)
Paul_D_North_Jr ... Raton ? ...
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Rock-y or Kyle?
It really isn't going to matter - except maybe to you and the vet - what railroad name you call the cat. It will probably never respond to its name (Abigail Ann) and you will end up calling it something silly like "mouse", "Hobo" or in the case of Abigail Ann - "Mookie".
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Al Tuna
Al tuna! Perfect!
About Forty 40 years ago a friend acquired Two 2 orange-striped kittens from the same litter for their kids.
One of them, not the kids, that is, had an 'M' shape in darker fur on it's forehead.
The kittens became 'Fairbanks' and 'Morse', the kitten with the 'M' being the latter.
Thank You.
Maybe an Hispanic tribute to Tehachapi: Lupe?
Sylvesterbule
Don't forget Sunset and Zephyr. Sunset might be good for an orange cat.
Chessie
My saga, I had a cat named Fuffle. While at Suburban Station Philly I chatted with a woman on the platform, weird coincidence she had my cat's sister, Fiffle.
A coworker gave me a kitten named Yum Yum. Fearing I would suffer immediate tooth decay from all the sweetness of both Fuffle and Yum Yum in the same house, I renamed the kitten Selkirk, I haven't decided if it was after the railroad yard or the mountain range.
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There used to be a cat at the Arkansas Railroad Museum named "Blue Streak". She's gone now, but not forgotten.
I found a kitten once out at Darling, Arizona while train watching. Found him hiding in the rocks so named him "Rocky". Had to put gloves on to pick him up, he was that wild.
My cat was Chessie. My friends' white cat was Phoebe, his black one was Antracite. As someone said before, the cat doesn't care. Cats are like answering machines. Call them and leave a message. They will get back to you when they feel like it.
Like SFbrkmn, we had (too briefly) a literal railroad cat. I picked him, a mere kitten, off the trucks of the U.P. City of Portland's baggage car at Cheyenne in the late 1960s.
The train had just stopped, so I'm sure the kitten had been riding for some miles, rather than having just hopped on in town. He was dirty enough (altho all-white underneath).
I took him home, adding him to our menagerie. Alas, he lasted only weeks before managing to get run over in our little gravel-streets country town.
Almost forgot the subject here: We named him Excess Baggage.
See "Railroad Theme Pet Names" at: http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1932479
"Raton" is in there a couple times, and "Pullman" at least once (and no - I didn't look at it last night - not until just a few minutes ago.)
Semper Vaporo Have you tried googling "Cat Railroad names"? . . .
http://www.iridetheharlemline.com/2010/04/19/the-coolest-or-at-least-the-cutest-train-car-in-the-world-wakayama-electric-railways-tama-densha-cat-train/
From that blog post:
"One of my more crazy missions when I was in Japan was to see the feline Station Master Cat, Tama. Everybody pretty much loves Tama. When Wakayama Electric Railway was on the verge of bankruptcy, Station Master positions were eliminated, and the stations left unmanned. The decision to make a stray calico cat the honorary Station Master may have been the best decision the company ever made. Tama gained quite a following of fans. Many folks began taking the train: to see her! A study by Osaka University was conducted, which found that Tama brought at least one billion Japanese Yen into the local economy… or around 10.8 million US Dollars. The Wakayama Electric Railway is now thriving, and in her honor a special train car was designed. It is called the Tama Densha. Densha is a Japanese word for train."
To heck with "Hello, Kitty" - this one is more fun !
Chuck / tomikawaTT might know something about this one, too.
- Paul North.
I was always partial to the Cat I picked up down at the Roundhouse at Johnston Yard...Pretty much black with spots of white....Took him to the Vet for debugging and a bath and shots; he cam away from that experience with more white than black. His name: 'Ash Cat' ( and as you might imagine some 'coruptions' of that moniker).
Since cats are all spys and sometimes steal things (your heart if nothing else) I suggest James J Andrews as a railroady cat name.
Most cats also have a "the public be damned" atitude so William Henry Vanderbilt is a worthy railroad name, altnough I happen to think Cornelius Vanderbilt sounds better for a cat.
Dave Nelson
I used to have a cat named Piedmont. Named after a character in the old Pogo comic strip, but it does sound sort of railroady.
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