Uncomplimentary Railroad Nicknames

[vancouverislandrail]

Here is one for Vancouver Islands E&N...........Everythings Neglected

[MarknLisa]

CRI&P = Cry & pee.

UP = Uncle Pete

[RetGM]

Although not UNIVERSALLY ;known as uncomplimentary. The Winchestere & Western (Nee Winchester & Wardensville), the W&W has been the "Weak and Weary" for as long as I remember. (Retired from WW in 2005.)  The Western Maryland was fondly remembered as "Wild Mary", though I don't know why.   J W Hood 

[RetGM]

Also forgot 'till the first was sumitted:  From my days as an agent for a connecting shortline--CSXT:  Cars Sometimes, eXcept Today.   J W Hood

[kolechovski]

UP=Usually Parked

[TPWRY]

CSX = Crashin' Smashin' eXpress

BNSF =  Boring New Santa Fe

UP = Unwanted Pricks

NS = Notorius Suckers

[co2716ehp]

ET&WNC = Eat Taters & Wear No Clothes

[Deggesty]

I have never heard anyone mention the Peoria and Pekin Union, but I have been somewhat amused by a possible pronunciation of the abbreviated name.

[erikem]

Old one:

Nevada County Narrow Gauge = Never Come. Never Go

A rather lame nick that I came up with

San Diego Northern RR = Sex, Drugs, No Rock & Roll

 

- Erik

[Proud Infidel]

I heard they decided on BNSF instead of SFBN so they could say Big, New, Shiny FRISCO or Big New Santa Fe instead of Same Fleabag Burlington Northern!

CSX = Chicken Scratch Express

NS = No Steam

NYO & W = New, Young & Out of Work

O & W = Old & Wobbly

D & RGW = Dumb & Raggedy Goats Wobbling

 

[cv_acr]

Canadian National -> Crash National

Amtrak -> Amtrash

VIA Rail -> VIA Snail

Algoma Central & Hudson Bay Ry. (later renamed back to Algoma Central) -> All Curves and High Bridges, or All Curves and High Bumps

[Victrola1]

Mrs. Jim Buster, a young mother from Grandview, burned to death in a train wreck at Hahn's Crossing (Muscatine Island) on Dec. 4, 1919. Two Wapello passengers were badly burned, but survived. The Muscatine, Burlington and Southern Railroad became known as the Murder, Burn and Suffocate Railroad afterward. Rail service was discontinued in 1922.

http://iagenweb.org/louisa/LCTowns.htm

Burlington Cedar Rapids & Northern - Bums Can Ride North

Chicago Burlington & Quincy - Come Bums & Quick

                                                        Can't Be Quick

 

[csxns]

L&N, long and nastey.

[Deggesty]

For a while before Amtrak came into operation, it was feared that the dread disease, Rail Pox (Railpax), would strike. However, the epidemic turned out to be Amthrax.

[DSO17]

      New York New Haven & Heartless

[Semper Vaporo]

Not associated with  the RR name or initials, but way back when the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City RR (CRANDIC) was running interurbans it was affectionately known as the "Vomit Comet".  I have heard of other passenger ops being refered to that way, too.

[sd45-2]

abit off subject, but imagine if instead of canadian national getting the illinois central, it merged with union pacific. we'd have the i see you pee!

[blue streak 1]

So wirth the N&W SOU merger was it = No Way the shuddering RR  is   Not Sinking? 

[SW1200RS]

London&Port Stanley: Late and Poor Service

 

[MerrilyWeRollAlong]

After the Howard Street Tunnel fire: Crash Smolder Xtinguish

After their coal trains derail: Coal Spilling Xpress

Did the Chessie System takeover the Seaboard System?: Chessie's Seaboard Xecution

Their policy on steam locomotives fantrips?: Cancel Steam Xcursions

When they took over Conrail: Conrail's Slow Xtinction

When they were underseige from the Children's Fund, those people had: Crazy Shareholder Xpectations

When they had numerous derailments in upstate New York: Crash Smash Xplode

[Proud Infidel]

Or Lost & Nowhere.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

I'm surprised that this one hasn't been posted yet:

Lake Erie & Western (NKP Peoria line):  Leave Early & Walk.

Pacific Great Eastern also had:  Province's Greatest Expense.

[jchnhtfd]

and I'm surprised these two haven't been posted yet --

St. J. & LC (Saint Johnsbury & Lamoille County) = St. Jesus and Late Coming

HT&W (Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington) = Hoot, Toot & Whistle

[YoHo1975]

Interesting, we must have a lot of Frisco fans on this board, because I have NEVER heard a Frisco reference for BNSF before. It's always been Big New Santa Fe.

Which, if you believe the merger was to get Santa Fe's Intermodal knowledge AND realize that their management team took over, is kind of accurate.

The Frisco is best forgotten at least as far as BN is concerned. 

 

SPSF- Shouldn't Paint So Fast is still my favorite. 

And of course, UP = The BORG.

You WILL be assimilated your unique railroad will be added to our own. Resistance is futile. 

[edbenton]

One I heard around here for the Illinois Railnet was the ILL  Rails that Need the Net.  Since every week they seem to put a train on the ground near here in Ottawa.

[LWales]

YoHo1975

Interesting, we must have a lot of Frisco fans on this board, because I have NEVER heard a Frisco reference for BNSF before. It's always been Big New Santa Fe.

Which, if you believe the merger was to get Santa Fe's Intermodal knowledge AND realize that their management team took over, is kind of accurate.

The Frisco is best forgotten at least as far as BN is concerned. 

 

SPSF- Shouldn't Paint So Fast is still my favorite. 

And of course, UP = The BORG.

You WILL be assimilated your unique railroad will be added to our own. Resistance is futile. 

 

I spent quite a bit of time down on the Thayer Sub from Springfield, MO toward Mempis, TN in the mid 1990s and it was quite amazing to see the transformation that took place on that line. Before the merger there were just a handful of trains on that route. After the merger the line became the eastern connection to the NS/CSX and the southeast. Traffic boomed.

There were days that the single track line saw nearly 20 daylight movements--not during a 24 hour period, but sunrise to sunset. The line saw major upgrades: lengthed stretches of double track around Thayer, new sidings, MOW blitzes. And then the coal traffic started to come besides.

So the line hosted hot Los Angeles to Memphis Z-trains, stack traffic, merchandise trains along with coal trains that had manned helpers out of Springfield for more than 100 miles down toward Thayer--it was a neat time with all the old C30-7s, new SD70ACEs, Warbonnet Santa Fe locos along with BN's own loco variety during that time.

There was someone up in Springfield, MO that had his own BNSF-issued Ford Bronco. It was white and he took it upon himself to have a logo made for the driver's door. It was the BNSF initials set inside the Frisco coonskin emblem. That was pretty cool and that said it all in regards to the changes the line had seen.

Lance

[grampaw pettibone]

NorthWestern of SC = None Worse

[Mr. Railman]

BNSFRR: Berkshires New super F*cking Rail Road

GE: Great Explosion

EMD: Excellent Moving Diesel

UP: Unresponsive ***

ATSF: All That's So Fantastic

WSOR: Don't dis one of the best regionals out there

FWW: Found What Works

CN: Crummy Nunsiance 

NS: Not Shabby

CSX: Can Someone X-plain

MILW: My Ill Legs Work

[GP-9_Man11786]

"Long Island Fail Road," was always one of my favorites, especially when the train was late.

[dmoore74]

GP-9_Man11786

"Long Island Fail Road," was always one of my favorites, especially when the train was late.

Knew a former engineer who referred to it as the Wrong Island Fail Road, Route of the Iron Snail.