Hunter Harrison "Dead" at 73!!? Is there a nicer way Trains could have broke the news?

[K7CSX]

Spot on exactly what I was thinking

[54light15]

I agree with you about that. It's what's wrong with most war movies where middle aged actors are playing the young men who fight wars. 

[Firelock76]

One of the problems with the "Caine Mutiny" film as I see it, as good as it is, is the principal actors are all too old for the roles, Humphrey Bogart, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray, and so on, especially Bogey, and I love Bogey.

Back in the 80's there was a TV version of the play which was very well done.  The late Brad Davis played Captain Queeg, Eric Bogosian was Barney Greenberg, the others I don't remember, but it was strictly a courtroom drama, and a good one too.  All young actors except for the senior officers sitting on the court-martial board. 

[CandOforprogress2]

• Passed, passed on, or passed away
• Resting in peace, eternal rest, asleep
• Demise
• Deceased
• Departed, gone, lost, slipped away
• Lost her battle, lost her life, succumbed
• Gave up the ghost
• Kicked the bucket
• Didn't make it
• Breathed her last
• Went to be with the Lord, Went to Heaven, Met his Maker
• Was called home, is in a better place

• Assume room temperature	To die	Euphemistic slang	Used frequently by talk radio host Rush Limbaugh on The Rush Limbaugh Show, generally when a dictator or an avowed enemy of the United States has died. Originally used in his first book, The Way Things Ought to Be. See also Jargon of The Rush Limbaugh Show.
  At peace[1]	Dead	Euphemistic
  At rest[1]	Dead	Polite
  Belly up[1]	Dead	Informal	The orientation of fish when dead
  Beyond the grave[1]	After death	Neutral	In reference to communication with the dead
  Beyond the veil[2]	The mysterious place after death	Neutral	Originally used to refer to the 'veil' that hides the innermost sanctuary of the Temple in Jerusalem. Sometimes refers to just a mysterious place.
  Bite the dust[2]	To die or be killed	Informal	Also means 'failed'
  Bite the big one[2]	To die	Informal	North American.
  Born asleep	Stillbirth	Neutral
  Breathe one's last[1]	To die	Literary
  Brown bread[3]	Dead	Slang	Cockney rhyming slang for 'dead'.
  Buy the farm[2]	To die	Informal	A farm owner who had life insurance would effectively, upon dying, 'buy the farm' or reduced to 'bought it'
  Cark-it[4]	To die	Informal, another version of 'croaked it'; common in UK, Ireland, Australia & New Zealand	The guy was running, had a heart attack and carked it.
  Cash in one's chips[2]	To die	Informal, euphemistic[5]	Redemption for cash of gambling counters at the end of a game
  Candyman	Supernatural suicide	TV/Movie	Say 'Candyman' 5 times while looking in a mirror, and the Candyman appears and kills you with his hooked right hand.
  Charon	Ferryman of Hades	Neutral	Crosses the rivers Styx and Acheron which divide the world of the living from the world of the dead
  Come to a sticky end[1]	To die in a way that is considered unpleasant	Humorous	British. Also 'to meet a sticky end'.
  Counting worms[5]	Dead	Euphemistic
  Croak[6]	To die	Slang
  Crossed the Jordan	Died	Biblical/Revivalist	The deceased has entered the Promised Land (i.e. Heaven)
  Curtains	Death	Theatrical	The final curtain at a dramatic performance
  Dead as a dodo[2]	Dead	Informal	The 'dodo', flightless bird from the island of Mauritius hunted to extinction
  Dead as a doornail[1]	Obviously dead	Informal	Charles Dickens used this phrase at the beginning of A Christmas Carol.
  Death by Misadventure	Avoidable death	Formal/Legal	Death resulting from risk-taking
  Deleted	Murdered	Literary
  Departed[1]	To die	Neutral
  Die with one's boots on	To die while able, or during activity, as opposed to in infirmity or while asleep.	Euphemistic	Old West usage: To die in a gunfight, as with the film They Died with Their Boots On. Also connotes dying in combat. British; cf. Iron Maiden's Die With Your Boots On.
  Didn't make it	Killed in Action (see below)	Euphemistic
  Done for[1]	About to die	Neutral
  Drop dead[1]	Die suddenly	Neutral	also slang aggressive dismissal
  Dropping like flies[7]	Dying in droves	Simile	also falling ill in numbers
  Erased	Murdered	Literary
  Euthanasia	Assisted suicide	Formal
  Exterminate	Kill	Directive	Exclaimed by Daleks (from Doctor Who) when ordered to kill
  Extinct	When a species as a whole ceases to exist	Formal
  Fading away[1]	To be weakening and close to death	Neutral	Also to be 'fading fast'
  Fall off one's perch	To die	Informal
  Food for worms[2]	Someone who is dead	Slang	Also 'worm food'
  Fratricide	Murder among siblings	Formal
  Free one's horses	To die	Neutral
  Genocide	To completely exterminate all of a kind	Formal
  Give up the ghost[2]	To die	Neutral	The soul leaving the body
  Glue factory	Usually refers to the death of a horse	Neutral
  Gone to a better place[9]	To die	Euphemistic	Heaven
  Go over the Big Ridge[10]	To die	Unknown
  Go bung[2]	To die	Informal	Australian. Also means 'to fail' or 'to go bankrupt'.
  Go for a Burton	To die / break irreparably	Informal	British. From WWII (Gone for a Burton).
  Go to Davy Jones's locker[2]	To drown or otherwise die at sea	Euphemistic	Peregrine Pickle describes Davy Jones as 'the fiend that presides over all the evil sprits of the deep'.
  Go to the big [place] in the sky	To die and go to heaven	Informal	A place in the afterlife paralleling the deceased's life, such as "Big ranch in the sky".[11]
  Go home in a box[12]	To be shipped to one's birthplace, dead	Slang, euphemistic[5]
  Go out with one's boots on/with a bang/in style	To die while doing something enjoyed	Informal
  Go to, or head for, the last roundup[10]	To die	Euphemistic	Associated with dying cowboys, along with "Going to that big ranch in the sky."
  Go to one's reward[2]	To die	Euphemistic	Final reckoning, just deserts after death
  Go to one's watery grave[1]	To die of drowning	Literary
  Go to a Texas cakewalk[10]	To be hanged	Unknown
  Go the way of all flesh[2]	To die	Neutral
  Go west[2]	To be killed or lost	Informal	Refers to the sun setting at the west.
  The Grim Reaper[2]	Personification of death	Cultural	A skeleton with a scythe, often in a cloak
  Hand in one's dinner pail[2]	To die	Informal	No longer required at workmen's canteen
  Hara-kiri	(Ritual) suicide by disembowelment	Japanese	See Seppuku. Often misspelt as Hari-kari.
  Have one foot in the grave[2]	To be close to death because of illness or age	Informal, sometimes humorous
  Hop on the last rattler[5]	To die	Euphemistic	"Rattler" is a slang expression for a freight train.
  Hop the twig[2]	To die	Informal	Also 'to hop the stick'. Pagan belief that to jump a stick on the ground leads to the Afterworld.
  In Abraham's bosom[2]	In heaven	Neutral	From the Holy Bible, Luke 16:22.
  Join the choir invisible[13]	To Die	Neutral	From an 1867 poem by George Eliot
  Join the great majority[2]	To die	Euphemistic	First used by Edward Young, but the phrase 'the majority' is extremely old.
  Justifiable Homicide	Homicide	Formal	murder of lesser culpability attracting a lighter penalty
  Kick the bucket[2]	To die	Informal	In suicidal hanging.[14] Also 'kick off' (American).[1]
  Kick the calendar	To die	Slang, informal	Polish saying. 'Calendar' implies somebody's time of death (kicking at particular moment of time)
  Killed In Action (KIA)	Death of military personnel due to enemy action	Military language, official and informal use
  King of Terrors[2]	Personification of death	Neutral	Also refers to death itself
  Kiss arse goodbye	Prepare to die	Slang
  Live on a farm (upstate)	To die	Euphemism	Usually referring to the death of a pet, especially if the owners are parents with children, i.e. "The dog went to live on a farm."
  Lose one's life[1]	To die in an accident or violent event	Neutral
  Make the ultimate sacrifice[1]	To die while fighting for a cause	Formal	Also 'make the supreme sacrifice'
  Matricide	Mother murdered	Formal
  Meet one's maker[2]	To die	Euphemistic	According to Christian belief, soul meets God for final judgment
  Murder Death Kill (MDK)	Homicide	TV/Movie	From 1993 film Demolition Man
  Night	The state of death	Euphemism	From the poem by Dylan Thomas, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night."
  Not long for this world[1]	Will die soon; have little time left to live	Old-fashioned
  Not with us anymore	Dead	Euphemistic
  Off on a boat[5]	To die	Euphemistic	Viking expression, in fashion nowadays
  Off the hooks[2]	Dead	Informal	British. Not to be confused with 'off the hook' (no longer in trouble).
  On one's deathbed[1]	Dying	Neutral
  On one's last legs[2]	About to die	Informal
  One's hour has come[1]	About to die	Literary
  One's number is up[1]	One is going to die	Slang
  Pass away[1]	To die	Polite	Also 'to pass on'
  Pass in one's alley[2]	To die	Informal	Australian
  Patricide	Murders father	Formal
  Pay the ultimate price[1]	To die for a cause or principle	Neutral	Similar to "To make the ultimate sacrifice"
  Peg out[1]	To die	Slang	British. Also means 'to stop working'
  Pop one's clogs[2]	To die	Humorous,[1] Informal[2]	British. In English slang, the word "pop" means the same as "pawn." A 19th century working man who is mortally ill or at the point of death might apocryphally tell his family to take his clothes to the pawn shop to pay for his funeral; especially his clogs which would be his most expensive/valuable items. Sometimes used in the third person, "they've popped his clogs."
  Promoted to Glory	Death of a Salvationist	Formal	Salvation Army terminology.
  Push up daisies[2]	To have died and be under the ground	Humorous,[1] Euphemistic[5]	Early 20th century. Also 'under the daisies' and 'turn one's toes up to the daisies', which date back to the mid-19th century. See 'to turn up one's toes' below.
  Put down/put to sleep	To be euthanised	Euphemism	Euthanasia of an animal
  Put one to the sword	To kill someone	Literary
  Rainbow Bridge	Dead	Euphemism	Usually referring to the death of a pet, i.e. "Crossing the Rainbow Bridge."
  Ride the pale horse[5]	To die	Euphemistic	In the Biblical passage Revelation 6:8, a pale horse is ridden by Death, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The expression "behold a pale horse" has been used as the title of a 1964 film by Fred Zinnemann and a 1991 book by ufologist William Milton Cooper.
  Send one to Eternity or to the Promised Land	To kill someone	Literary
  Sent/go to the farm	To die	Informal	Usually referring to the death of a pet, especially if the owners are parents of young children i.e. "The dog was sent to a farm."
  Shade	The state of death	Euphemism	From the poem, "Invictus," by William Ernest Henley: "Beyond this place of wrath and tears, Looms but the horror of the shade."
  Shuffle off this mortal coil[1]	To die	Humorous, Literary[2]	see Shakespeare's Hamlet.
  Six feet under[2]	Dead	Informal	Six feet is the traditional depth of a grave
  Sleeps with the fishes	Murdered, then disposed of in water.	Slang	Popularized by The Godfather
  Snuffed out	Murdered	Literary	As in extinguishing a candle, or simply "snuff it"
  Step off	To die	Informal, euphemistic	Character Ron Birdwell in the movie The Late Show (1977): "I'm always sorry to hear any of God's creatures stepping off."
  Struck down[1]	To be killed by an illness	Neutral	Usually passive
  Suicide	To take one's own life	Formal
  Swim with concrete shoes	Gangster Murder	Slang
  Take a dirt nap[15]	To die and be buried	Slang
  Take a last bow[5]	To die	Euphemistic
  Take the last train to glory.[2]	To die	Euphemistic	Uplifting Christian take on destination heaven
  Tango Uniform[citation needed]	Dead, irreversibly broken	Military slang	This is "T.U." in the ICAO spelling alphabet, an abbreviation for *** Up (aeroplane crashed)
  Top yourself	Commit suicide	Informal
  Turn up one's toes[2]	To die	Informal	An alternative of 'turn one's toes up to the daisies' (See 'push up daisies' above.)
  Up and die	Unexpected death, leaving loose ends	Euphemistic
  Wearing a pine overcoat (i.e. a wooden coffin)[citation needed]	Dead	Slang	Idiom used by American gangsters of the early 20th century.
  Wiped out...way up..	Dead, usually if multiple individuals die	Neutral A Race Well Run Angels Carried Him/Her Away Annihilated Ashes To Ashes, Dust To Dust Asleep Asleep In Christ At Room Temperature Ate It Baste The Formaldehyde Turkey Be No More Be Taken Became A Root Inspector Become Living-Challenged Belly Up Bereft Of Life Bills Of Mortality Bite The Dust Bless The World With One's Heels Bloodless Bought The Farm Breathe One's Last Bump Off Buried Buy A Pine Condo Cadaverous Called Home Came To An End Cash In Cash In One’s Chips Cease To Breathe Ceased To Be Checked Out Checking Out The Grass From Underneath Cold Conk Croak Crossed Over Crossed The Bar Crossed The River Styx Cut Off Dance The Last Dance Dead Meat Deader Than A Doornail Deceased Decided That Hell's Got A Better HR Policy Than The Office. Definitely Done Dancing Defunct Demised Departed Dirt Nap Done For End One's Earthly Career Erased Executed Expired Extinct Fallen Off Their Perch Feeling No Pain Final Chapter Final Curtain Call Finally Eligible For That Management Position He/She Was Always After. Finally Got His/Her Tab Called At The Bar Of Life. Finished Flatline Fragged Gathered To His People Gathering The Asphalt Gave Up The Ghost Get Your Wings Getting Bagged Go Home Feet First Go Home In A Box Go Into The Fertilizer Business Go Off Go Off The Hooks Go Out Like The Snuff Of A Candle Go The Way Of All Earth Go The Way Of All Flesh Go To A Necktie Party Go To A Necktie Social Go To Abraham's Bosom Go To Davy Jones's Locker Go To Meet One's Maker Go To One's Just Reward Go To One's Last Account Go To One's Last Home Go To One's Long Account Go To One's Rest Go To The Happy Hunting Ground Go To The Last Roundup Go West Going To The Big ___(Whatever) In The Sky Gone Saddam Hussein tagged...soon to be bagged Goner Gone Into The West Gone To Meet Their Maker Gone To Take His/Her Free Kick At Hitler's Backside. Got A One-Way Ticket He Examines The Radishes From Below. He's Juggling Halos Now. He Just Got Stamped "Return To Sender." He's Past His Sell-By Date. Immortally Challenged In A Better Place In Repose In The Grave In The Horizontal Phone Booth Is Now A Stiff It Was Curtains Joined The Choir Invisible Joined The Majority Kicked Off Kicked The Bucket Kicked The Oxygen Habit Late Left The Building Lifeless Liquidated Living-Impaired Lost Meet One's End Met His/Her Maker Mortified No Longer With Us No More Off The Twig Offed On The Heavenly Shores On The Unable To Breathe List One's Hour Is Come Out Of His/Her Misery Paid Charon's Fare Passed Away Paying A Debt To Nature Perished Permanently Out Of Print Picking Turnips With A Step Ladder Popped Off Lincoln Lying In State Popped Their Clogs Pushing Up The Daisies Put Down Put Him In Cement Boots Reached The Finish Line Resting In Peace Return To The Ground Returned To Dust Returned To The Source Riding The Perma-Pine Rubbed Out Run Down The Curtain Shuffled Off The Mortal Coil Six Feet Under Sleeping With The Fishes Slipped Away Quietly Snuffed Snuffed Out Sprouted Wings Stiff Stiff As A Board Stone Dead Succumbed Swan Song Taken Out Of Production Taking A Dirt Nap Taking An All Expenses Paid Trip Aboard Stygian Cruise Lines. Tending Towards A State Of Chemical Equilibrium. Terminated That Good Night That Was All She Wrote The Big Nap The Lone Couch Of This Everlasting Sleep Took A Harp Traded To The Angels Turn One's Face To The Wall Turn To Dust Turn Up One's Toes Turned Their Toes Up Turning Up Daisies Wacked Wandering The Elysian Fields Was A Goner Wasted Wearing A Toe Tag Winning One For The Reaper With The Ancestors With The Angels Worm Food Yield One's Breath

[54light15]

I agree with you about The Caine Mutiny film. They could have left out the romance of Ensign Keith. That was totally un-needed to the story. I wish I could have seen the play, "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" which is really all that it's about. 

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

54light15

I didn't like that movie "A Few Good Men." The Caine Mutiny said the same thing much better. But, having said that I did like Demi Moore in that skin-tight uniform! 

 

As usual, the movie version of "The Caine Mutiny" was not nearly as good as the book and left out the whole section of what happened after the court martial.

[oltmannd]

Now the chief pratitioner of Precision Sonambulent Railroading.

[Uncle_Bob]

Assumed room temperature

Was sent to a drawer in the cooler

Moved to Slabtown

Shuffled off this mortal coil 

Learned first-hand there's a bigger devil than he (for those who loathed the man)

[54light15]

I didn't like that movie "A Few Good Men." The Caine Mutiny said the same thing much better. But, having said that I did like Demi Moore in that skin-tight uniform! 

[Murphy Siding]

CandOforprogress2

Like Passed away? Went to that big Lionel train set in the sky? Caught the westbound? (Fav of Hobos) Took a sidetrack? Got the last train to the Greenbrier? Went to Florida on the Sunshine special? Ect..Ect.

 

Maybe you'd prefer the Chevy Chase treatment?  E. Hunter Harrison....... is still dead.

[Paul_D_North_Jr]

Often "Bound for Glory". 

And there's a reason the track full of locomotives and cars to be scrapped is called the "dead line" . . .  

- PDN.  

[SD70Dude]

In honour of Monty Python, "E's not dead, E's resting!"

Of course he is eventually found to be an ex-CEO.

I don't think the big roundhouse would be a good place for him, even if St. Peter let him in.  Too many old locomotive and Railroaders up there.  He would try to scrap and fire as many of them as he could, in order to implement PSH (precision scheduled Heaven).

That is of course if all the ex-railroaders he abused in life didn't toss him in the "firebox" first...

[CandOforprogress2]

Retired to a warmer climate....

[Firelock76]

Interesting, "Take the westbound..."  and "Gone west."

"Gone west" entered the British Army's slang during the First World War, referring to someone who'd been killed in action.  Why?  That's where the military cemetarys were.

I assume "Take the westbound" refers to heading toward the setting sun.

We could say Hunter's gone to "The Big Roundhouse In The Sky."

Or, "The Big Firebox,"  depending on your point of view.  I'm staying neutral on this one.  As soon as he lost his bid to grab Norfolk-Southern I lost interest in him.

[Paul_D_North_Jr]

The hoboes used to refer to death as going to "the Big Rock Candy Mountain":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rock_Candy_Mountain 

https://genius.com/Harry-mcclintock-big-rock-candy-mountain-lyrics 

There was a story about a telegrapher who spoke of his impending death in their lingo.  I don't recall all the details, but the last line or two was: "No time to galvanize now, guess I'll have to cut off."

- PDN. 

[Convicted One]

CandOforprogress2

.Is there anyone here who believes in a higher power and a afterlife?

 

Okay okay!!    E. Hunter Harrison has  rebooted... There, now are ya satisfied? 

[54light15]

I think Raymond Chandler said it best. 

The Big Sleep. 

 

 

[Randy Stahl]

Murphy Siding

 

 

BaltACD

 

CShaveRR

Hey, Balt...

What about "dispatched?"

 

 

With reference to him, it tarnishes the profession.

 

 

 

 

Rule 88'd.

 

 

Rule 88 = zombie

[Murphy Siding]

BaltACD

 

CShaveRR

Hey, Balt...

What about "dispatched?"

 

 

With reference to him, it tarnishes the profession.

 

Rule 88'd.

[CandOforprogress2]

BaltACD

Only the full scene gives our boys and those that lead them justice-

 

 

CandOforprogress2

Like Passed away? Went to that big Lionel train set in the sky? Caught the westbound? (Fav of Hobos) Took a sidetrack? Got the last train to the Greenbrier? Went to Florida on the Sunshine special? Ect..Ect.

 

 

I guess you are among those mentioned in the most memorable line from 'A Few Good Men'.

Cue Jack Nicholson!

 

[Norm48327]

Carl,

We in avaition have a few euphisms for that. Gone west, as flying into the sunset, is probably the most common. We all do that eventually and I can't think of any way to be polite about it. I wil be soon 78 and the average lifespan is 79. Will I be allowed to live beyond that? Questioable at best.

My former employer and super good friend is facing cancer. His family and I are both awaiting his diagnosis.

I've been rather silent on the subject but having a woman friend who is a ten year survivor and whose dad is now facing cancer I can relate to what you and Linda are going through. I see in her a very strong woman who faces reality.

My respect to you, Linda, he husband and children. Hang tough my friend .

[BaltACD]

CShaveRR

Hey, Balt...

What about "dispatched?"

With reference to him, it tarnishes the profession.

[CShaveRR]

Hey, Balt...

What about "dispatched?"

[slotracer]

Took the dirt Nap

Went so sleep with the fishes

Became Worm food

 

At least he is gone. Evil, vile and despicable person.

[Randy Stahl]

54light15

He went west

Back to Blighty

Assumed room temperature

He went *** up. 

 

 

Oh , those are good ones !

 

[54light15]

He went west

Back to Blighty

Assumed room temperature

He went *** up. 

 

[Overmod]

Randy Stahl

He'll be on the wrong side of the zombie apocalypse now.

Some thought he was already on the wrong side of it during the Mantle Ridge takeover, and after...

[Randy Stahl]

He'll be on the wrong side of the zombie apocalypse now.

[BaltACD]

Randy Stahl

Kicked the bucket.

and the bucket won!