Memorable company names

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

My favorite in this category is Lake Erie & Western (NKP Peoria line), Leave Early & Walk.

[DMUinCT]

Can you ever forget your "MA and PA". ( Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad)

A trip from York PA to Baltimore MD

[cefinkjr]

I was born and raised in Western Pennsylvania...lived for several years within hearing range of the B&LE.  It's Connie-ought; never heard Coney-ought until I heard Bill O'Reilly say it that way.

Memo to NKP Guy: There's a difference between "Don" and "Dawn"?

 Also to NKP Guy: US&S was also known as Union Swipe and Swindle in some circles.

Memo to sandiego:  That was the Pittsburgh, McKees Rocks, and Youghiogheny (Yes, I checked the spelling.)  The local pronunciation is roughly yock a gany with a mild accent on the first syllable, the first a being short, and the second a being long.  A native would also recognize Yock as a logical contraction.  To improve your knowledge of geography, check this Wikipedia article on the Yock.

[ValleyX]

There was a eastern-southeastern narrow gauge line in Ohio called the Bellaire, Zanesville, and Cincinnati, which locals called the Bent, Zigzag, and Crooked. The depression finally killed it in about 1931.

[SALfan]

dakotafred

Henry6 says above: "Atlantic Seaboard would have been nice."

 Bingo! Longtime Trains readers will remember DPM lamenting the redundancy of SCL and saying the logical choice would have been Atlantic Seaboard Line. The execs of that day weren't stupid ... was Seaboard the ascendant company and insistent on primacy? (My memory fails me here.)

Seaboard was definitely not the ascendant company.  ACL was stronger financially, and had most if not all the power in the combined RR.  Having Seaboard come first in the SCL name, and I believe the combined company using the former Seaboard's HQ building in Jacksonville, were about the only bones the former Seaboard employees were thrown.

 I agree, Atlantic Seaboard would have been a better name for the combined RR.

[dakotafred]

Thank you to SALfan and, belatedly, to cudjoebob (from 5-18).

Re. naming merged roads, my old pals on the U.P. claimed that the surviving company was evenhandedness itself in absorbing the S.P. "We used the first name from 'Union Pacific' and the last name from 'Southern Pacific.' "

[Deggesty]

Miscellaneous responses and notes when catching up on threads begun while we were traveling.

I had heard the MoPac called "MOP."

Until we heard a radio station in Sault Ste. Marie while we were driving in the U. P. last month, I did not know how to pronounce "Sault," even though I knew of "The Soo Line." I had thought more of a French pronunciation.

"Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer" français" is approved spelling in France. "De" = "of" or "from;" "du" = "of the(masc.)" or "from the(masc.);" if "the" is feminine, the French is "de la."

Champion Davis (long-time President of the ACL) did not refer to the competing road by name; to him, it was "That other railroad."

The ACL moved its headquarters from Wilmington to Jacksonville several years before the merger with "That other railroad." The SAL headquarters remained in Norfolk.

At last, I know how to pronounce "Conneaut" and "Youghiogheny." Thanks.