jeffhergert AT&SF - Ate Tamales & Spit Fire.
AT&SF - Ate Tamales & Spit Fire.
Spit?
The Treasury of Railroad Folklore has a section this. Some from off the top of my head are...
M&StL - Maimed & Still Limping or Midnight & Still Later.
CGW - Chicago Great Weedy or just Great Weedy.
HE&WT - Hell Either Way you Take.
Jeff
Paul, it was the Savannah and Atlanta.
http://www.cofga.org/railway/history/the-savannah-and-atlanta-railway-company/
I have ridden behind the S&A's #750--along with the 4501 from Birmingham to Akron, Ala., and back to Birmingham after 4501 departed for Meridian.
Johnny
Somebody from Georgia told of the S&A which was called Slow and Aggravating. I don't remember the actual name, but it might have been something like Savannah and Atlanta or [something] and Atlantic.
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"A stranger's just a friend you ain't met yet." --- Dave Gardner
B&O = Best & Only
GM&O greasy muddy and oily
CRI&P crip
You should hear some of the ones we have for OTR trucks they can get down right mean. I could right a book on SWIFT and CRST.
O&W was also known as "Off and Walk".
Have an English documentary on disk about the Midland and Great Northern railroad which was called the Muddled and Going Nowhere. It fell a victim to the nationalization and "rationalization" of English railways in the 1960s.
NYO&W was, of course, the "Old and Weary" or the "Old Woman."
A small logging line on NY's Tug Hill, the Glenfield and Western, was known as the "Gee Whiz."
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BC Rail was originally called Pacific Great Eastern, which I have always thought ironic as there was nothing particularly great about it, it barely reached the Pacific, and didn't go very far east.
Others nicknamed it:
Please Go Easy
Prince George Eventually
Province's Greatest Expense
Past God's Endurance
Puff, Grunt, Expire
But my personal favourite is a pioneer shortline that became part of the Northern Alberta Railway, the Edmonton, Dunvegan & British Columbia:
Extremely Dangerous & Badly Constructed
Greetings from Alberta
-an Articulate Malcontent
Over the years, railroaders have come up with some, shall we say, euphemistic meanings for the abbreviations of various railroads. Some that come to mind are:
D&RGWDangerous & Rapidly Growing Worse
My favorite (due to its accuracy):C&NWCheap & Nothing Works
UPY (designation for some UP yard power)UP Yours
You got any good ones you'd like to share?
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