Whats is ur favorite Railroad Quote Good or Bad

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Old Timer

How's about CRI&P - Come Right In & P**s
The Southern Serves the South - like a bull serves a cow
SCL - Still Coast Line, S**t Comes Later
NY State Interurban Line Jamestown, Winslow and North Western - Jesus Wept, and No Wonder
Ohio Narrow Gauge Bellaire, Zanesville and Coshocton (?) - Bent, Zigzag and Crooked
GM&O - Good Money and Overtime, Goats Milk and Onions
L&N - Long and Nasty
N&W - Nothing Works (by a Wabash Passenger conductor bring a totally frozen Blue Bird into Decatur, as though the Wabash never had one freeze up)

And these are just the ones on the tip of my tongue . . .

Old Timer

Old Timer,do you remember the old "Nicholas,Fayette & Greenbriar" from
West Va.[?] I can't type their motto? on the forum.[:D]
At least not without blushing[:I]and getting into trouble[:D]

[Anonymous]

I'm surprised nobody has come up with the running trades quote yet --

"It's not a job, it's a lifestyle."

[Anonymous]

No, Locomutt - I never heard the one about NF&G, but I can imagine . . .

And nobody has come around with "The Milwaukee Road - America's Remorseful Railroad".

One line from a formal hearing on a local freight crew I heard about from years ago, before the days of speedometers on engines: "well, we couldn't have going very fast because we just had gotten on overtime".

Old Timer

[Paul3]

Well, my favorite RR poem would have to be about the New York & New England RR's famous "White Train" of the 1890's:

Without a jar, or roll or antic,
Without a stop to Willimantic,
The New England Limited takes it's way
At three o'clock on every day.

Maids and matrons, daintily dimited,
Ride every day on the New England Limited;
Rain or snow ne'er stops its flight,
It makes New York at nine each night.

One half of the glories have not been told
Of that wonderful train of white and gold
Which leaves every day for New York at three
Over the N.Y. & N.E.

As for bad names, I have the "No Hope" (New Haven), and the "Hoot, Toot & Whistle" (Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington), not to mention "To Hell & Back" (Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo) and "Erie Lacko'money" (Erie Lackawanna).

The New Haven had a bunch of advertising slogans, like:

"The Key To New England"
"The Aristocrat of New England Transportation"
"Train Yourself To Relax"
"Center To Center Convienence"

But for my favorite slogan, I wonder what it could possibly be???

Paul A. Cutler III
*****************
Weather Or No Go New Haven
*****************

[Anonymous]

With all due respect to all of you, because I am a newcomer,

How about the predecessor of BCRail, now taken over by CN: It was originally the Pacific Great Eastern, from Vancouver to Prince George in the north. "PGE" was twisted into "Please go Easy" or "Prince George Eventually" due to ridiculous political delays in its construction.

I thoroughly enjoy all the incredible knowledge on the forums. Thanks, folks!

Pianomattster

[cherokee woman]

How about C&O's slogan: "Sleep like a kitten"?

[Mookie]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cherokee woman

How about C&O's slogan: "Sleep like a kitten"?

One of my favorites!

[Anonymous]

Seen on a "modified" UP locomotive--

"We will deliver - eventually"

[eastside]

What I wouldn't be surprised to see in the near future: "Intel on Board," on both rolling stock and locos. [:)]

[Junctionfan]

Rollingstock with computers-great.......more systems to defrag and check for virus and trojans.

[locomutt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by eastside

What I wouldn't be surprised to see in the near future: "Intel on Board," on both rolling stock and locos. [:)]

With the "Intel on Board" slogan,will that be Pentium III or IV [?][:D]

[Anonymous]

I just love the "upon the road of anthricite" Poems

[rob_l]

A classic historical quote:

"Charge whatever the traffic will bear." - C. P. Huntington

Really appalling quote:

"There has never been any service in the rail industry." - NS senior manager quoted in a magazine about 5 years ago. (Many transportation managers from the good-service roads of the 70s, 60s and before must have rolled over in their graves at that one.) This guy should have said there was never any service on the N&W (after steam days, anyway).

Good slogan: Dependable transportation
Weak slogan: We can handle it (too passive, the customer has to have the idea)
Bad slogan: We will deliver (almost admitting incompetence)
Brainless slogan: Building America (now they're claiming the Nation needs them)

(The above traces the evolution of the UP from a really good-service road into a why-try-to-give-service-when-we-can-cut-the-operating-cost-some-more road.)

Another good slogan: Everywhere west

How about this Conductor's Delay Report:

The wind was high, the steam was low.
The train was heavy and hard to tow.
The coal was dirty and full of slate,
And that's why we was runnin' late.

Or a modernized version:

The wind was high, the amps were low.
The train was heavy and hard to tow.
In many sidings you made us wait,
And that's why we was runnin' late.

Best regards,

Rob L.

[locomutt]

Although it's not actually a slogan;but,do you remember the good old
"PC"[?] the logo: "Looked like two worms making love".[:)]

[MP57313]

"Route Freight Up Here. Keep Our Highways Clear". Accompanies an image of trailers on a flatcar, on a UP bridge over a city street in North Long Beach, CA

[adrianspeeder]

Lehigh Valley - Route of the black diamond.

How about

Safety first (except after money and/or convenience)

Adrianspeeder

[Junctionfan]

Route Rock "take our route or we will rock you"

[Anonymous]

CB&Q: "Everywhere West"
ATSF: "The Chief Way"

Watching freights got a lot less fun when they stopped putting slogans on the box cars.

[espeefoamer]

NYC " The public be damned"

[Anonymous]

Espeefoamer -

Another quote of "The Public Be Damned" out of context.

Back in the 1880s or so Vanderbilt was told by a reporter that he should put on a passenger train between two points lost to memory "because the public demands it".

His reply was "The public be damned. If the public wants a passenger train let the public pay for it."

This was not an unreasonable stance for Vanderbilt to take, but every time somebody not responsible for anything doesn't like something a railroad, or any other corporation for that matter, does, he quotes the first four words of Vanderbilt's reply.

I just wi***he next guy that uses that quote would get it right.

And, 90 or so years later, Vanderbilt got his wish. After 1971 the public did pay for it.

Old Timer

[MP57313]

"Ship and Travel Santa Fe" along the top girders of a truss bridge in the median of I-5 north of Oceanside, CA.
Later partially painted out after A-Day to read "Ship Santa Fe".
The paint and paint-out has faded but can still be seen today.

[Anonymous]

Following Old Timer's Ohio Narrow Guage BZ&C, came the Bellaire, Zanesville and Cincinnati - later the Ohio River and Western, known locally as the Old Rough and Wobbly, or the Old Rusted and Wrecked.

B&O - Bolder and Older
C&O - Colder and Older
PRR - Please Re-Lay the Rails or Proud to Run a Railroad

Let's not forget the early graffiti age of Herbie. After the sombrero wearing sleeping hobo showed up chalked onto dozens of cars, he was turned into a safety PR campaign - Help Every Railroader Become Injury Exempt. I have an HO 40' reefer with that little gem.

[Junctionfan]

I love your PRR one RancOr[(-D]

[Anonymous]

"I sought trains...I found passengers." - Thoreau

[Anonymous]

And I like the "Southern Gives the Green Light to Irritations".

The Central of Georgia was "The (F)Right Way".

Burlington was "Everywhere Worst".

Old Timer

[Anonymous]

And what might be the funniest incongruities?

To me, putting speed lettering on a Rio Grande narrow gauge Mikado takes the cake.

Old Timer

[Anonymous]

SP-SF...Shouldn't of Painted So Fast.
Mitch

[Kozzie]

I reckon the motto for Northern Pacific is very descriptive and quite catchy:

"Main Street of the North West"

I think that's hard to beat....

Dave

[Anonymous]

On a witness stand during a railroad lawsuit...So you are a Switchman? A: yes. Q: You saw the two trains collide? A: Yes. Q: What was your first impression on seeing this event? A: That's a helluva way to run a railrod!

[PNWRMNM]

Up hill slow
Down hill fast
Tonnage first
Safety last

Carved on the wall in an SP yard building in Oakland CA early 1970's.