Stupid Railroad names

[upchuck]

[%-)] The Amboye & Kelso Pacific

[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

[carnej1]

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

[zardoz]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Murphy Siding

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

June 11, 2004

[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

[Anonymous]

New name for CSX:

NORFOLK AND WAY RAILWAY

SLOGAN:

NEED IT OVERNITE - NORFOLK AND WAY

DOUG

[trainfan1221]

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

[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.

[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.

[WSOR 3801]

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

[railfanespee4449]

CNW + UP

Pacific Northwestern

[Anonymous]

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

[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.

[CNW 6000]

QUOTE: Originally posted by railfanespee4449

CNW + UP

Pacific Northwestern

Not bad...

[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!!!!

[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.

[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,

[Anonymous]

CSX + UP should be Chesapeake and Pacific...