Just for fun

[ATSFGuy]

Outside of Santa Fe, I also like the MKT Railroad,

 

Missouri-Kansas-Texas:

Many Killed Torched

Men Killing Time

More Katy Travelers

Monkeys Kangaroos Tigers

Muddy Kinky Track

 

That's all I have for this one, if I missed one let me know.

Anyone remember the MKT?

[Paul of Covington]

   Waco, Beaumont, Trinity & Sabine

   Wobble, Bobble, Turnover & Stop

[ATSFGuy]

B&O 

Big O

Broken & Obsolete

Best & Organized

 

[mvlandsw]

Mr B & O

B&O = Best & Only  

 

Broke and Owen

[BaltACD]

ATSFGuy

Is CXS climbing out or getting worse?

Who is this CXS you are talking about?

[ATSFGuy]

Is CXS climbing out or getting worse?

[BaltACD]

ATSFGuy

Here are a few more; 

CSX

Can't Stop Xeroxing

Charrled Sizzled Xrayed

Crashed Smashed eXploded

Conrail's Screwed Xtremely

Conrail's Southern eXtension

Chicken Southern Xpress

Color Scheme Excitement

Chemical Spill Xperts

Chessie Still Xperimenting

Chessie Seaboard Xtreme

Chicken S.it Xpress -with even more S.it in the EHH era

[ATSFGuy]

Here are a few more;

 

CSX

Can't Stop Xeroxing

Charrled Sizzled Xrayed

Crashed Smashed eXploded

Conrail's Screwed Xtremely

Conrail's Southern eXtension

Chicken Southern Xpress

Color Scheme Excitement

Chemical Spill Xperts

Chessie Still Xperimenting

Chessie Seaboard Xtreme

 

 

[jeffhergert]

SD70Dude

 

 

tree68

SD70Dude

CSX = Crash Spill eXplode

I don't usually get a good reaction from that one, either....

 

 

 

Now now, don't shoot the messenger, that one's been floating around online since I was a kid.

I can imagine that might be a touchy one for you Larry, seeing as you actually have to deal with CSX in the real world.  Now for a less violent one:

CNR = Certainly No Rush

And a "nursery rhyme" of unknown origin that could very well apply to any railroad:

"Up the hill slow, down the hill fast.  Tonnage first, safety last!"

 

Here's the verse I was taught.

"Up hills slow, down hills fast.  Tonnage first, horsepower last.  The rails are bad, the ties are worse.  What's all this about Safety First?"

Jeff

[tree68]

SD70Dude

I can imagine that might be a touchy one for you Larry, seeing as you actually have to deal with CSX in the real world.

Well, CSX hasn't exploded here in my neck of the woods, but they've spilled a little, and crashed a few times...

To their credit, the only explosion I know of here came when a runaway from the military base hit some MOW equipment, causing a 20 lb propane cylinder to go...

Down on the Chicago line, that's a different story...

[bleve1075]

Tramps Hobos & Bums....

 

[SD70Dude]

tree68

SD70Dude

CSX = Crash Spill eXplode

I don't usually get a good reaction from that one, either....

Now now, don't shoot the messenger, that one's been floating around online since I was a kid.

I can imagine that might be a touchy one for you Larry, seeing as you actually have to deal with CSX in the real world.  Now for a less violent one:

CNR = Certainly No Rush

And a "nursery rhyme" of unknown origin that could very well apply to any railroad:

"Up the hill slow, down the hill fast.  Tonnage first, safety last!"

[tree68]

SD70Dude

CSX = Crash Spill eXplode

I don't usually get a good reaction from that one, either....

[Miningman]

Dude---Ouch!  ( be nice!)

Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Rwy, the TH&B, was commonly nicknamed 'To Hell and Back'

[SD70Dude]

CSX = Crash Spill eXplode

[jeffhergert]

BaltACD

B&O - Best and Only

 

Beefsteak & Onions.

Jeff 

[BaltACD]

B&O - Best and Only

[ATSFGuy]

Here are mine;

 

Union Pacific

The Yellow Borg

Uncle Pete

Uncle Pete's Rabbit Ranch

Union Pathetic

Ugly Power

Unltimate Privy

Un Professional

Unauthorized Packing

Ultimately Profitable

Unlimited Power 

Unlimited Parking

Upgraded Parts

Under Paid

Unemployment Pending

Undelivered Perisables 

Unlimited Purchasing

Unimaginative Paint

Unstoppable Power

Usually Parked

Useless Prices

Uppity Pacific

Under Pressure

You Can't Spell Stupid Without UP

yoU Pee

 

 

 

 

Southern Pacific

Espee

Screwing Passengers

Sufferin' Pacific

Smelly Perch

Stand Proud

Slow Packing

Slow Poke

Spare Parts

Soot Princess

Stupid Police

Spendid Pacific

Speed Punks

Squashing Pumpkins

Sorry Pacific

Sloppy Pacific

Slow Pathetic 

Southern Pathetic

Superior Preformers

Surrendered Peacefuly

Suffering Painfully

Unprepared for UP, (need I say more?)

The Octopus

 

 

Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe

Ate Tamales & Spat Fire  

Ashcan Tolietbowl & Santi-Flush 

Annoying Tempermential Stupid Fans 

All Tramps Sent Free  

All Tonnage Slow Freight             

After Tonnage Slow Freight    

Ancient Tracks Slow Fixing

Ancient Trainman & Senior Fireman

 

 

 

Santa Fe                              

Specularly Famous              

Suffering Fools                           

Santi Flush  

Santa Flush                         

Scuzzy Fe      

Chico                          

Uncle John  

 

 

 

 

Amtrak 

AmTrash

AmCrash

AmCrap

AmCrak

AmSlack

AmWreck

AmQuack

Anthrax

Animaltrak

Animal Krackers

Slamtrak

Spamtrak

Ramtrak

 

 

 

Metrolink

Metrolate

Metroloss

Metrostink

 

 

 

 

 

                        

[Paul_D_North_Jr]

Delaware, Lackawanna & Western - Delay, Linger & Wait 

- PDN. 

[Atlantic and Hibernia]

The Lackawanna was often called the Lackawampum or the Lack-o-money.

After the Erie merger the name Weary Lackawampum came into use

Kevin

[jeffhergert]

Deggesty

 

 

mudchicken

 

 

rdamon

 

jeffhergert

AT&SF - Ate Tamales & Spit Fire.

 

 

 

 

Spit?  

 

 

 

Family Forum - Go Wash Your Brain Out w/ Soap!

 

 

One of Chico's orphans....

 

 

 

 

MC, Jeff, the proper word is "spat," wich is the past tense of "spit." Didn't you two go to school?

 

 

The Treasury of Railroad Folklore uses "Spit Fire."  Today the general consensus is that if it appears on the internet it has to be true.  Well, since books, magazines and newspapers were kind of like the internet of that era, if it appears in print it has to be correct.   

It also had for ATSF:  All Tramps Sent Free.  For those that don't have the book, there's a couple pages of nicknames like these.  

Jeff

[erikem]

Nevada County Narrow Gauge was nicknamed Never Come Never Go.

[Firelock76]

Then there's RF&P, or Richmond, Frederickburg & Potomac.

Jobs on the RF&P were so sought after and hard to get it was said you had to know someone who worked there already to get hired, so RF&P became known to the locals here as "Relatives, Friends, and Parents."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Deggesty]

mudchicken

 

 

rdamon

 

jeffhergert

AT&SF - Ate Tamales & Spit Fire.

 

 

 

 

Spit?  

 

 

 

Family Forum - Go Wash Your Brain Out w/ Soap!

 

 

One of Chico's orphans....

 

MC, Jeff, the proper word is "spat," wich is the past tense of "spit." Didn't you two go to school?

[rdamon]

mudchicken

SPSF = Shouldn't Paint So Fast

That one is great ..

 

Also liked

SP = Soiled Pacific in reference to the fleet in the early 90's

[mudchicken]

rdamon

 

jeffhergert

AT&SF - Ate Tamales & Spit Fire.

 

 

 

 

Spit?  

Family Forum - Go Wash Your Brain Out w/ Soap!

 

One of Chico's orphans....

[mudchicken]

ATSF = Always Thinking Safety First

BN = Big Nuthin

BNSF = Bigger Nastier Santa Fe

SPSF = Shouldn't Paint So Fast

C&S= Crooked & Slow

CB&Q = Crooks Bums and Quacks

FW&D = Forgotten, Worn & Decrepit

SP = Sufferin' Pathetic

WP = Wing & a Prayer

WUMPS=Sound of flat wheels of the "new" UP over its fallen flags (after CNW got added....)

UP = Uncle Pete

[csxns]

L&N the Long&Nasty and SCL Slowboard Coast Line.

[bedell]

Locals us to call the Staten Island Rapid Transit "The Rancid Transit."