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What Railroad Name To Give A Cat?

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Posted by CMStPnP on Sunday, December 21, 2014 11:56 AM

Well since I live in Texas with an active raptor population and I hate cats I would just call the cat........Falcon Bait.    Kind of has a tie-in to the C&NW as well.

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Posted by chatanuga on Sunday, December 21, 2014 12:26 PM

My first cat Chessie (RIP) was named after the railroad since he was male.  If he'd been female, he would have been named after the cat in the C&O ads.

My second cat is named Casey Jones, named after the engineer.

My third cat is Smokey, who I named because he looks like a big cloud of smoke.

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Posted by pajrr on Sunday, December 21, 2014 1:26 PM

Chessie was a female, Peake was her husband. Her two kittens were named Nip and Tuck. It was interesting to note that, in the current thinking of the day (early 1900s), Chessie had to have a husband in order to have the kittens. Peake then went off to war. That is why Chessie and her kittens appeared in ads most of the time without him. Research Chessie sometime. It is a truly fascinating history.

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Posted by Norm48327 on Sunday, December 21, 2014 1:57 PM

The Patterson Ave bridge in Grand Rapids, MI has Chessie painted on it. It's visible in Google Earth street view.

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Posted by NDG on Sunday, December 21, 2014 3:34 PM

There was a cat in the Rhouse, here, about Twenty 20 years ago. I have a photo which I will post when I find it.

Wonder if NOW it would be named 'Hunter' for various reasons? Or was his job abolished, also?

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Sunday, December 21, 2014 5:20 PM

Pennsy

Enola

Hudson (after NYC)

Pacific

Mikado

Decapod (not really, but . . . )

Jersey (as in Central RR of NJ)

Junction

Empire

Tower - as in block, signal, or water, etc.

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Sunday, December 21, 2014 5:27 PM

I think cats have names that vary per the situation...

 

OFF THE COUCH!

 

MY WINDOW SHEERS!

 

NO!  NOT IN THE BEAN BAG!

 

WHAT'S THIS IN MY SHOE?

 

STOP THAT UNDER MY BEDROOM WINDOW!

 

etc.

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Posted by Lake on Sunday, December 21, 2014 8:38 PM

Susie Q is what we named our youngest cat. After the RR and the song.

And like all of the 4 cats we now have, she will come when called.

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Posted by 54light15 on Sunday, December 21, 2014 8:45 PM

Paul North, I was going to suggest Pennsy after I thought about it.  My current cat is named Miss Hudson. Actually Miss Vera-Lynn Hudson the Fourth. What can I say? I do think that "Miss Vera IV" would look amazing in gold leaf on the transom of a mahogany Chris-Craft and there's something wrong with you if you don't love those! 

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Monday, December 22, 2014 11:31 AM

MidlandMike

 

Paul_D_North_Jr

 ...

Raton ?

...

 
 
Raton is spanish for rat.  How about Gato.
 

USS Gato was a submarine.

How about (all caps) JAY?  (6b optional.)

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Monday, December 22, 2014 11:42 AM

tomikawaTT
 

 

 
MidlandMike

 

Paul_D_North_Jr

 ...

Raton ?

...

 
 
Raton is spanish for rat.  How about Gato.
 

 

 

USS Gato was a submarine.

How about (all caps) JAY?  (6b optional.)

Chuck (N&W fan)

 

  Gato is probably a fish, as all WWII subs had fish names. Whistling

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Posted by Ulrich on Monday, December 22, 2014 12:13 PM

Boomer.. or maybe Richard Parker. 

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Posted by MidlandMike on Monday, December 22, 2014 2:21 PM

Murphy Siding

 

 
tomikawaTT
 

 

 
MidlandMike

 

Paul_D_North_Jr

 ...

Raton ?

...

 
 
Raton is spanish for rat.  How about Gato.
 

 

 

USS Gato was a submarine.

How about (all caps) JAY?  (6b optional.)

Chuck (N&W fan)

 

 

 

  Gato is probably a fish, as all WWII subs had fish names. Whistling

 

 

I

From Wiki on Gato Class subs: Gato '​s name comes from a species of small catshark.

From Wiki you will also find that Gato is spanish for cat.

I suggested the name from a junction on the D&RGW NG line between Chama and Durango.

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Posted by 54light15 on Monday, December 22, 2014 2:57 PM

Chama sounds perfect for a cat, but what's a catshark? Is that like a landshark?

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Posted by Wizlish on Monday, December 22, 2014 3:10 PM

54light15

Chama sounds perfect for a cat, but what's a catshark?

Here ... Don't forget to play the song, too...

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Posted by K. P. Harrier on Monday, December 22, 2014 3:13 PM

One railfan I encountered, who put on layout shows a few times a year in San Bernardino, CA, named his cats with sequence numbers.  He was up to No. 19 a number of years ago, but I haven't seen him for a while, and have no idea what number he is at now.

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Posted by tree68 on Monday, December 22, 2014 5:12 PM

Back when we had cats (too many once or twice), one was named "Chessie," or sometimes "Chesapeake."

Another was called "Turbo Traina," but that was shortened to "Traina" in general usage.

I'm not really a cat person, so any pets that get added to this household in the future will be dogs, and may very well have a fire-themed name (Gamewell being one possible choice).

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Posted by Ulrich on Monday, December 22, 2014 8:35 PM

Boxcar Whiskers.. 

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Posted by aricat on Monday, December 22, 2014 10:17 PM

I once named a cat Big Emma named for the L&N 2-8-4's.

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Posted by 54light15 on Wednesday, December 24, 2014 9:31 AM

Wizlish, that was funny as hell! Now I know why the interwebs was invented.

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Wednesday, December 24, 2014 9:48 AM

aricat

I once named a cat Big Emma named for the L&N 2-8-4's.

 

   I once worked at an airport that had a front end loader named Fat Alice

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Wednesday, December 24, 2014 9:52 AM

How about 

Spike
Cinders
Rocky*


*I rode the bus to school with 3 kids from the same family.  Their names were Dusty, Rocky and Sandy.  I always firure they had uncles named Larry, Curly and Moe.

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Posted by Deggesty on Wednesday, December 24, 2014 9:58 AM

Murphy Siding

How about 

Spike
Cinders
Rocky*


*I rode the bus to school with 3 kids from the same family.  Their names were Dusty, Rocky and Sandy.  I always firure they had uncles named Larry, Curly and Moe.

 

Did your three co-bus riders share the attributes of their presumed uncles?

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Posted by zugmann on Wednesday, December 24, 2014 1:31 PM

Hmmm.

 

Layshaft?

Derail?

Wheelslip?

Slackadjuster?

Trainmaster?

 

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Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Wednesday, December 24, 2014 3:48 PM

zugmann

Hmmm.

Layshaft?

Derail?

Wheelslip?

Slackadjuster?

Trainmaster?

Weedweasel?

Knuckles?

Dynamite?

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Wednesday, December 24, 2014 8:09 PM

Murphy Siding
How about 

Spike
Cinders
Rocky*

*I rode the bus to school with 3 kids from the same family.  Their names were Dusty, Rocky and Sandy.  I always firure they had uncles named Larry, Curly and Moe.

"Hi, I'm Larry; this is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl." (from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newhart#Larry.2C_Darryl.2C_and_Darryl )

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Wednesday, December 24, 2014 8:14 PM

Congo - (short for PRR's Congressional passenger train)

Clocker (also PRR)

Cajon

Tehachapi

Winslow - not only in Arizona, but also Winslow Jct. in southern NJ

Norfolk

Southern

Roanoke

Tyrone, Renovo, Milton, Shamokin - towns on the PRR and / or Reading RR  

Burnham (Yard in Denver)

Moffat ( http://www.moffatroadrailroadmuseum.org/moffatrdhistory.html )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_(Central_Pacific_Railroad 

Collis (Huntington)

Leland (Stanford)

Crocker (Charlie)

Hopkins (Mark)

Dodge (Grenville)

Sherman (Hill)

Van Horne (Cornelius)

Harriman

- Paul North. 

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Posted by ACY Tom on Thursday, December 25, 2014 10:13 AM

Did anybody suggest Kate Shelley?

(Maybe that could be Cat Shelley).

Actually, that reminds me of the train robber, Cat Ballou.

 

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Posted by SFbrkmn on Thursday, December 25, 2014 4:40 PM

Little Frisco passed away at home late Tuesday. My parents were spared on having to make the dreaded trip back to the vet. I want to thank all of you for  name suggestions. I showed this post to my dad. Wanting to keep the Frisco link alive, two names stand out as a direct link to not only Frisco history but Santa Fe as well: Fred and Harvey. He is thinking towards Harvey when that time arrives. Thanks Paul North for that suggestion and pray that  dad can soon receive another gift. He misses his little buddy

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Posted by Andrew Falconer on Thursday, December 25, 2014 5:21 PM

For the state of Kansas, you can call the cat "Santa Fe".

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