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What Railroad Name To Give A Cat?

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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 54light15 on Sunday, December 21, 2014 11:22 AM

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.

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Posted by dknelson on Sunday, December 21, 2014 11:06 AM

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.

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Posted by samfp1943 on Sunday, December 21, 2014 11:02 AM

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).

 

 


 

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Sunday, December 21, 2014 10:21 AM

 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.)

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Have you tried googling "Cat Railroad names"? . . . 

Yeah, go do that, esp. as a "Google Image Search".  Fun stuff - see esp.:

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.

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Posted by dakotafred on Sunday, December 21, 2014 7:48 AM

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.

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Posted by pajrr on Sunday, December 21, 2014 4:57 AM

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.

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Posted by SSW9389 on Sunday, December 21, 2014 4:09 AM

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.

 

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Posted by gardendance on Sunday, December 21, 2014 4:06 AM

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.

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Posted by ROBERT WILLISON on Sunday, December 21, 2014 1:55 AM

Chessie 

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Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Sunday, December 21, 2014 1:08 AM

Don't forget Sunset and Zephyr.  Sunset might be good for an orange cat.

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Posted by wanswheel on Saturday, December 20, 2014 11:21 PM

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Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Saturday, December 20, 2014 10:40 PM

Maybe an Hispanic tribute to Tehachapi:  Lupe?

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Posted by NDG on Saturday, December 20, 2014 10:39 PM

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.

 

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Posted by rfpjohn on Saturday, December 20, 2014 10:36 PM

Al tuna! Perfect!

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Posted by MidlandMike on Saturday, December 20, 2014 10:26 PM

Sierra

Louie

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Posted by Mookie on Saturday, December 20, 2014 10:02 PM

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". 

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Posted by mudchicken on Saturday, December 20, 2014 9:44 PM

PDN: The great god Topecka is angry today.

Rock-y or Kyle?

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Posted by MidlandMike on Saturday, December 20, 2014 9:31 PM

Paul_D_North_Jr

 

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Raton ?

...

 
Raton is spanish for rat.  How about Gato.
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Posted by MidlandMike on Saturday, December 20, 2014 9:21 PM

I once had a gray cat called Smokey (for the steam fans)

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Posted by Ulrich on Saturday, December 20, 2014 9:04 PM

Casey Jones

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Posted by rfpjohn on Saturday, December 20, 2014 9:04 PM

Catanooga-chew-chew?

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Posted by Semper Vaporo on Saturday, December 20, 2014 9:01 PM

Have you tried googling "Cat Railroad names"?

 

or checked: http://www.funcatnames.com/

 

 

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Posted by Paul_D_North_Jr on Saturday, December 20, 2014 8:51 PM

BaltACD
Chessie's companion Peake

To-Peak-A ? (ATSF's post)

Chief ?

Fred or Harvey ?

Raton ?

Chico ?

Pullman ? (OK, maybe not the best . . . )

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