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Posted by rdamon on Friday, April 20, 2018 2:55 PM

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AT&SF - Ate Tamales & Spit Fire.

 

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Posted by jeffhergert on Friday, April 20, 2018 12:14 PM

The Treasury of Railroad Folklore has a section this.  Some from off the top of my head are...

M&StL - Maimed & Still Limping or Midnight & Still Later.

AT&SF - Ate Tamales & Spit Fire.

CGW - Chicago Great Weedy or just Great Weedy.

HE&WT - Hell Either Way you Take.

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Posted by Deggesty on Friday, April 20, 2018 10:17 AM

Paul, it was the Savannah and Atlanta.

http://www.cofga.org/railway/history/the-savannah-and-atlanta-railway-company/

I have ridden behind the S&A's #750--along with the 4501 from Birmingham to Akron, Ala., and back to Birmingham after 4501 departed for Meridian.

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Posted by Paul of Covington on Friday, April 20, 2018 10:09 AM

   Somebody from Georgia told of the S&A which was called Slow and Aggravating.   I don't remember the actual name, but it might have been something like Savannah and Atlanta or [something] and Atlantic.

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Posted by Mr B & O on Friday, April 20, 2018 9:38 AM

B&O = Best & Only  

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Posted by diningcar on Friday, April 20, 2018 8:40 AM

GM&O  greasy muddy and oily

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Posted by Shadow the Cats owner on Friday, April 20, 2018 7:12 AM

You should hear some of the ones we have for OTR trucks they can get down right mean.  I could right a book on SWIFT and CRST.

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Posted by bedell on Thursday, April 19, 2018 11:43 PM

O&W  was also known as "Off and Walk".

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Posted by ChuckCobleigh on Thursday, April 19, 2018 11:10 PM

Have an English documentary on disk about the Midland and Great Northern railroad which was called the Muddled and Going Nowhere.  It fell a victim to the nationalization and "rationalization" of English railways in the 1960s.

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, April 19, 2018 10:16 PM

NYO&W was, of course, the "Old and Weary" or the "Old Woman."

A small logging line on NY's Tug Hill, the Glenfield and Western, was known as the "Gee Whiz."

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Posted by SD70Dude on Thursday, April 19, 2018 9:09 PM

BC Rail was originally called Pacific Great Eastern, which I have always thought ironic as there was nothing particularly great about it, it barely reached the Pacific, and didn't go very far east.

Others nicknamed it:

Please Go Easy

Prince George Eventually

Province's Greatest Expense

Past God's Endurance

Puff, Grunt, Expire

But my personal favourite is a pioneer shortline that became part of the Northern Alberta Railway, the Edmonton, Dunvegan & British Columbia:

Extremely Dangerous & Badly Constructed

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Just for fun
Posted by zardoz on Thursday, April 19, 2018 8:55 PM

Over the years, railroaders have come up with some, shall we say, euphemistic meanings for the abbreviations of various railroads. Some that come to mind are:

D&RGW
Dangerous & Rapidly Growing Worse

My favorite (due to its accuracy):
C&NW
Cheap & Nothing Works

UPY (designation for some UP yard power)
UP Yours

 

You got any good ones you'd like to share?

 

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