Stupid Railroad names

[Junctionfan]

CN should now be CI- Canadian International.

[nanaimo73]

The other thread wants to put Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern together with Iowa, Chicago and Eastern, Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern. Dakota, Iowa, Canadian and Kansas would have to put *** on all of their equipment.

Murphy Siding, I caused the time warp.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cim_spike

Genesee & Wyoming's policy of "two-wording" every RR they buy.......stupid
should've left the C&IM the way it was......including the paint!!! I'm not a big fan of green, but it's a helluva lot better than the "pumpkins" they've got all over the place!

I'm not keen on the orange either, it's not the most photogenic of liveries.

Some daft names from the UK:

"one" Anglia - just reading the name, it could be anything from a local pressure group to a government quango..

Northern Spirit - a stopgap measure between British Rail and full nationalisation, but it still sounds like a brand of paint stripper to me..

[locomutt]

Old Timer,
I think you hit the nail on the head with PaNyc; and I believe a few of their
stockholders would have said the same thing there after.

[Anonymous]

BNSF=Buy Norfolk Southern First
CSX=Chicken S**t eXpress
SCL=Still Coast Line, or S**t Comes Later
UP=Uncle Pete
CN=Conrail North
SCL shoulda been Atlantic Seaboard System
Pennsylvania + New York Central shoulda been PaNyc

Maybe I'll think of more . . .

- Old Timer

[Murphy Siding]

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

[emmar]

What's wrong with BNSF? The actual name is a bit long, but the acronym sounds fine. However their new name BNSF Railway is a stupid name. What kind of a name is that for a respected freight railroad.[V]

[Anonymous]

From the OFF THE WALL DEPT: What say that CN, UP and CSX were to merge into the Canadian Union and Alphabet Mixup Pacific Railroad (CUAMPR). It made no since when my 11 year old nephew told me either. But I do have to admit it would be a real stupid name for a railroad or any company for that matter[swg]

[kog1027]

BNSF & CN had a good name picked out - North American Railways. CN even had rights to those reporting marks as they had absorbed the original holder, the Northern Alberta Railway.

But I think the all time bad name was the one that never happened - Southern Pacific & Santa Fe. That name alone was enough to make the ICC kill the merger. It was obvious, the railroad should have been called - Santa Fe Pacific. With none of those oversized speed letter initials, fully spelled out . And the AT&SF already held title to that name, it was used by one of their predicessors that built on those FRISCO land grants out to California.

Sadly it was only after selling the SP to Anschultz that the Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corporation changed it's name to - Santa Fe Pacific Corp.

Mark
In the Northeast Corner of Nowhere.

[Anonymous]

Instead of keeping railroads under one name each part should have its own identity. Example CN should still keep the illionois Central name in the south.

[Anonymous]

The only odd name I can think of is the PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. ITS not funny in its name but that the railroad ran a train called the SOUTH WIND between CHICAGO and FLORIDA and over the 1000 miles route I dont believe the train went through PENNSYLVANIA.

[Anonymous]

Why not simply call BNSF Santa Fe Northern? This was mentioned in an old Trains article (sorry, I don't remember which issue). It also said the SFN name wouldn't work because it made sense. At least it would have been easier to say than the mouthfull that Burlington Northern Santa Fe is.

[daveklepper]

Again: Sante Burlington!

[Anonymous]

ok i have one that looks like UP's logo font, but im having trouble uploading the picture to my site. Ill post the link ASAP.

[Anonymous]

I saw a older post here by espeefoamer, and well...

It needs some work on the font though

[espeefoamer]

QUOTE: Originally posted by daveklepper

If you don't like Burlington Fe, how about Sante Burlington? Dave

How about Chicago,Santa Fe,& Quincy?[:)]

[Anonymous]

BNSF = Great Northern Pacific.........
Genesee & Wyoming's policy of "two-wording" every RR they buy.......stupid
should've left the C&IM the way it was......including the paint!!! I'm not a big fan of green, but it's a helluva lot better than the "pumpkins" they've got all over the place!

[daveklepper]

If you don't like Burlington Fe, how about Sante Burlington? Dave

[Anonymous]

CSX should have just been CHESSIE-SEABOARD
CONRAIL is the worst (and i grew up waching that boaring blue)
i like the ESQUALMUT & NANAIMO RR (if thats the way to spell it)
its on Vancouver Island

[Anonymous]

The model railroader who lost his "imaginary" railroad name got my sympathy. For years I've been running a model railroad loosely based on the NYNH&HRR... I just shortened it down to LB&I, which stands for Lost, Bewildered & Indifferent. If UP takes it I'm gonna charge a humongous model fee for trademark infringement... and give it all up for free Trains subsciptions for the literature impaired railfan. Youse guys are my witnesses.
Erik

[Anonymous]

I feel that the BNSF should just give up the Santa Fe name and be like the UP (Usually Parked) and just do what all of us that work for BNSF at my terminal on old BN line call it anyway and thats Burlington Northern. Lord knows the Santa Fe has been nothing but a thorn in BN's butt since the merger.

Sincerely,
A BN Conductor
Oregon Trunk Sub

[espeefoamer]

Camas Prairie Rail Net. What the heck is a rail net?Do trains stop on a trestle so the crews can go fishing? [?][;)]

[TH&B]

And UP might still one day buy Canadian Pacific :(

[Rustyrex]

Here's another, the short lived Post Rock Island Operation of the Limon, CO to Goodland, KS Line by the Cadillac & Lake City Railroad, with both namesake cities being over 600 miles away from its line :) Actually, C&LC was a former Michigan shortline who pulled camp and restarted its operation in Kansas under the same name, but it still looked funny seeing this come through the towns wondering "where is Cadillac or Lake City?".

[Anonymous]

Union Pacific has a fixation with railroads that have PACIFIC in their name. They have bought Southern Pacific, Central Pacific, Western Pacific, Missouri Pacific, Kansas Pacific, Texas Pacific, plus probable a couple other pacifics I cannot remember.

[Anonymous]

When Union Pacific bought the Southern Pacific they coined a new name from the two equally sized lines. UP took the first word from their name and the last word for SP. Eureka!! The new name is Union Pacific

[Anonymous]

Railroad names can still have that regional sound: NS easily becomes the Southern and Western (S&W) and CSX can be the Atlantic Coast and Pacific. Both of these names use one the of the original names of their strong parent roads that saw the future, came to the plate and bought those former proud (read bankrupt) yankee roads. In the process they gave them good and honorable names with out a Penn or Central to be seen anywhere. The Southern, The Coastline, their cousins and the old man of the House of Morgan that put them together still have those most respected names as a part of their heritage

[tree68]

QUOTE: Originally posted by 440cuin


SCL; Seaboard means coastline, so that is a stupid name realy. hehe

Atlantic Coast Line + Seaboard Air Line = Seaboard Coast Line

[Anonymous]

Railroads are not the only companies with stupid names. Remember the short lived ENCO that the current ExxonMobil had? Enco in Japaneze means broken machine. No wonder they quickly changed the name. GM's Nova had a similar colorful history. Look at some of the NYSE companies with names that we are unable to say or have no relationship to the company's main line of business: Cleco, Enron, Keyspan, CMS, Aquila, Nexen, TXU, and RWE. These are just a smattering of oddies from the energy field. Shall we go to the next industry?

[Train Guy 3]

Southern + Norfolk and Western = Norfolk Southern..... Well it went west of Norfolk and it's in the south.... hmmmmm I guess we'll just leave out all the tracks in the north out the name.