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.
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
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.
I'm gonna quit now . . .
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?
Thank You.
The Patterson Ave bridge in Grand Rapids, MI has Chessie painted on it. It's visible in Google Earth street view.
Norm
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.
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.
Kevin
http://chatanuga.org/RailPage.html
http://chatanuga.org/WLMR.html
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.
I used to have a cat named Piedmont. Named after a character in the old Pogo comic strip, but it does sound sort of railroady.
Since cats are all spys and sometimes steal things (your heart if nothing else) I suggest James J Andrews as a railroady cat name.
Most cats also have a "the public be damned" atitude so William Henry Vanderbilt is a worthy railroad name, altnough I happen to think Cornelius Vanderbilt sounds better for a cat.
Dave Nelson
I was always partial to the Cat I picked up down at the Roundhouse at Johnston Yard...Pretty much black with spots of white....Took him to the Vet for debugging and a bath and shots; he cam away from that experience with more white than black. His name: 'Ash Cat' ( and as you might imagine some 'coruptions' of that moniker).
See "Railroad Theme Pet Names" at: http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?1,1932479
"Raton" is in there a couple times, and "Pullman" at least once (and no - I didn't look at it last night - not until just a few minutes ago.)
Semper Vaporo Have you tried googling "Cat Railroad names"? . . .
http://www.iridetheharlemline.com/2010/04/19/the-coolest-or-at-least-the-cutest-train-car-in-the-world-wakayama-electric-railways-tama-densha-cat-train/
From that blog post:
"One of my more crazy missions when I was in Japan was to see the feline Station Master Cat, Tama. Everybody pretty much loves Tama. When Wakayama Electric Railway was on the verge of bankruptcy, Station Master positions were eliminated, and the stations left unmanned. The decision to make a stray calico cat the honorary Station Master may have been the best decision the company ever made. Tama gained quite a following of fans. Many folks began taking the train: to see her! A study by Osaka University was conducted, which found that Tama brought at least one billion Japanese Yen into the local economy… or around 10.8 million US Dollars. The Wakayama Electric Railway is now thriving, and in her honor a special train car was designed. It is called the Tama Densha. Densha is a Japanese word for train."
To heck with "Hello, Kitty" - this one is more fun !
Chuck / tomikawaTT might know something about this one, too.
- Paul North.
Like SFbrkmn, we had (too briefly) a literal railroad cat. I picked him, a mere kitten, off the trucks of the U.P. City of Portland's baggage car at Cheyenne in the late 1960s.
The train had just stopped, so I'm sure the kitten had been riding for some miles, rather than having just hopped on in town. He was dirty enough (altho all-white underneath).
I took him home, adding him to our menagerie. Alas, he lasted only weeks before managing to get run over in our little gravel-streets country town.
Almost forgot the subject here: We named him Excess Baggage.
My cat was Chessie. My friends' white cat was Phoebe, his black one was Antracite. As someone said before, the cat doesn't care. Cats are like answering machines. Call them and leave a message. They will get back to you when they feel like it.
There used to be a cat at the Arkansas Railroad Museum named "Blue Streak". She's gone now, but not forgotten.
I found a kitten once out at Darling, Arizona while train watching. Found him hiding in the rocks so named him "Rocky". Had to put gloves on to pick him up, he was that wild.
My saga, I had a cat named Fuffle. While at Suburban Station Philly I chatted with a woman on the platform, weird coincidence she had my cat's sister, Fiffle.
A coworker gave me a kitten named Yum Yum. Fearing I would suffer immediate tooth decay from all the sweetness of both Fuffle and Yum Yum in the same house, I renamed the kitten Selkirk, I haven't decided if it was after the railroad yard or the mountain range.
Patrick Boylan
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Chessie
Don't forget Sunset and Zephyr. Sunset might be good for an orange cat.
Sylvesterbule
Maybe an Hispanic tribute to Tehachapi: Lupe?
About Forty 40 years ago a friend acquired Two 2 orange-striped kittens from the same litter for their kids.
One of them, not the kids, that is, had an 'M' shape in darker fur on it's forehead.
The kittens became 'Fairbanks' and 'Morse', the kitten with the 'M' being the latter.
Al tuna! Perfect!
Sierra
Louie
Al Tuna
It really isn't going to matter - except maybe to you and the vet - what railroad name you call the cat. It will probably never respond to its name (Abigail Ann) and you will end up calling it something silly like "mouse", "Hobo" or in the case of Abigail Ann - "Mookie".
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
PDN: The great god Topecka is angry today.
Rock-y or Kyle?
Paul_D_North_Jr ... Raton ? ...
Raton ?
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I once had a gray cat called Smokey (for the steam fans)
Casey Jones
Catanooga-chew-chew?
Have you tried googling "Cat Railroad names"?
or checked: http://www.funcatnames.com/
BaltACD Chessie's companion Peake
Chief ?
Fred or Harvey ?
Chico ?
Pullman ? (OK, maybe not the best . . . )
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