QUOTE: Originally posted by oltmannd A long time ago, railroads tended to have names that described where they went, or their service area. e.g. Pennsylvania, New York Central, Atcheson, Topeka and Santa Fe, Illinois Central, Southern, Norfolk and Western. Many out grew their descriptive names, but the names still tended to be geography based. Then we got into the post WWII merger era and the new names tended to be conglomerations of the old names (Erie-Lackawanna, Burlington Northern, Norfolk Southern) or whole new creations (Conrail, CSX) none of which had any real tie to geography. Some are meaninly less, CSX, and some are just silly, Bulington Nothern Santa Fe (as if Burlington Iowa and Santa Fe NM are major centers of commerce?) Union Pacific might be the only exception to this, since they've kept their name intact through the merger madness, but even their name is somewhat misleading - being a "Union" states project chartered during the civil war. So, the question is, if you could rename each of the major 4 US roads with a geographically based name, what would you chose? My suggestion for CSX would be "The Great Lakes, Atlantic and Gulf Railroad".
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QUOTE: Originally posted by 440cuin Also the Frisco <SL&SF> didn't even go to San Fransisco, in fact it went east and soutwest of Saint Louis! Dumb names, great railroads.
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QUOTE: Illinois Central Union Pacific.
QUOTE: Furthering America's Railroad Transportation System or "F.A.R.T.S".
QUOTE: Originally posted by macguy QUOTE: Originally posted by dave9999 QUOTE: Originally posted by Hugh Jampton UP could easily become: Pacific Omaha Overland A good slogan would be: Furthering America's Railroad Transportation System Of course this would be too much to paint on the side of a locomotive, so they'd have to use acronyms. Hugh, Those acronyms would really stink.[;)] Dave [:D][:D][:D][:D][:)][:p][:p][:D][:D][^] It took me a while on that one, before I could figure out why nobody would want "POO" on the sides of all their locomotives. [:D][:D][:D]
QUOTE: Originally posted by dave9999 QUOTE: Originally posted by Hugh Jampton UP could easily become: Pacific Omaha Overland A good slogan would be: Furthering America's Railroad Transportation System Of course this would be too much to paint on the side of a locomotive, so they'd have to use acronyms. Hugh, Those acronyms would really stink.[;)] Dave
QUOTE: Originally posted by Hugh Jampton UP could easily become: Pacific Omaha Overland A good slogan would be: Furthering America's Railroad Transportation System Of course this would be too much to paint on the side of a locomotive, so they'd have to use acronyms.
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