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What is your "favorite" deragatory railroad nickname?

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Anonymous
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What is your "favorite" deragatory railroad nickname?
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 9, 2005 12:12 PM
It seems that at one time or another, every railroad has earned a less than complimentary nickname.

Some nicknames refer to the railroad's less than ideal financial situation or physical plant. I've seen the Western Pacific refered to as the "Wobbly" and the Chicago Great Western as the "Great Weedy".

Other roads get nicknamed by disgruntled employees or shippers -- UP = "Unlimited Parking" and CN/IC is "Canadians (or Children) now in charge!"

So with your tounge firmly in cheek, what are your favorites?
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Posted by mudchicken on Friday, September 9, 2005 12:47 PM
SPSF = Shouldn't Paint So Fast
UP= Yellow Peril, Usually Poor
BN=Big Nuthin'
BNSF=Big New Santa Fe
SP= Slow Poke, Slow & Pathetic
WUMPS= Sound of Flat Wheel on Newly merged UP
C&W=Crooked and Wobbly
CNW=Cantankerous,Mean & Wicked
IC=InChaos
CRIP=Couldn't Really Initiate Progress
Mudchicken Nothing is worth taking the risk of losing a life over. Come home tonight in the same condition that you left home this morning in. Safety begins with ME.... cinscocom-west
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Posted by zapp on Friday, September 9, 2005 12:59 PM
ATSF= "Santaflush"
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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Friday, September 9, 2005 1:00 PM
Two old favorites:
Leave Early and Walk, from Lake Erie & Western, absorbed by NKP.
Misery and Short Life, from Minneapolis & St. Louis, absorbed in 1960 by C&NW.
The daily commute is part of everyday life but I get two rides a day out of it. Paul
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 9, 2005 1:22 PM
The reference to C&NW reminded me..."Cheap and Nothing Wasted"
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Posted by chad thomas on Friday, September 9, 2005 1:25 PM
Nevada,California & Oregon---Narrow Crooked & Onrey
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Posted by vsmith on Friday, September 9, 2005 1:32 PM
Oldie line but my fav

Nevada County Narrow Gauge RR, NCNG = Never Comes, Never Goes

some others

CSX = Cant Stop & Explain or Crash Stop & Explode
NS = Nowhere Soon
UP = Uncle Pete
BNSF=Brown Noses Sticky Fingers

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Posted by steve14 on Friday, September 9, 2005 2:03 PM
ICG = I Can't Go
UP = Unusually Pathetic
BNSF = Burlington Northern Southern Frontier
CNW = Can't and Never Will
SP = Sadly Pathetic
METRA = Meet Everybody Today Right Away
CP = Candyass Pacific
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Posted by AntonioFP45 on Friday, September 9, 2005 2:42 PM
Texas Pacific - Toilet Paper

Amtrak - Slamtrak!

"I like my Pullman Standards & Budds in Stainless Steel flavors, thank you!"

 


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Posted by vsmith on Friday, September 9, 2005 3:32 PM
Amtrack=

Jamtrack

Spamtrack

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Posted by dehusman on Friday, September 9, 2005 3:41 PM
Waco Beaumont Trinity and Sabine = Wobbly Bobbly Turnover and Stop.
San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf (SAUG) = Sausage
KCS = Haywire

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 9, 2005 3:47 PM
Pacific Electric = "the wooden axle outfit"........

Virlon

save your ticket..........the P.E. will rise again.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 9, 2005 3:47 PM
CSX "Chicken Sh_t Xpress" And sometimes I really feel like that motto sticks when I have engines dying on me every day, radio bases down, and a dispatching system left to be desired. But, it could always be worse; I could have no railroad job at all. And anways, Murphy's Law applies on the RR, so can I expect?? [}:)][:D]

But on a serious note, I love my job and I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Posted by tree68 on Friday, September 9, 2005 3:53 PM
NYO&W: Old & Weary, Old Woman
Glenfield & Western: Gee Whiz

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Posted by chad thomas on Friday, September 9, 2005 3:56 PM
Amtrak---Scamtrak
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Posted by rockisland4309 on Friday, September 9, 2005 4:06 PM
Amtrak--Amtrash
BNSF--Big Nothing So Far
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Posted by tpatrick on Friday, September 9, 2005 4:21 PM
Jesus Wept and No Wonder - Jamestown, Westfield and Northwestern - a local line in western New York many years ago.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 9, 2005 4:28 PM
UP-Usually Parked
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 9, 2005 10:45 PM
How's about the Sufferin' Failway System?

SCL = Still Coast Line, or S--t Comes Later.

SP = Sufferin' Pathetic . . .

And, of course, the old PRR was the Standard Failway of the World . . .

BNSF = Buy Norfolk Southern First

Old Timer
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 9, 2005 10:48 PM
Uncle Pete
Big Nose So Fat
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Posted by Murphy Siding on Friday, September 9, 2005 10:51 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by virlon

Pacific Electric = "the wooden axle outfit"........

Virlon

save your ticket..........the P.E. will rise again.



O.K. I don't get that one?[%-)]

Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.

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Posted by blhanel on Friday, September 9, 2005 10:52 PM
The CRANDIC line here between Cedar Rapids and Iowa City used to have a trolley service many years ago that was called the "Vomit Comet".

Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Friday, September 9, 2005 10:57 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by blhanel

The CRANDIC line here between Cedar Rapids and Iowa City used to have a trolley service many years ago that was called the "Vomit Comet".



Actually the *CRANDIC* name sounds somehow derogotory to me, but I always smile when I here it. It conjurs up images of The Honeymooners: "Hey Norton!!! What railroad is this anyway?" "Hey Ralphie-it's the CRANDIC of course."[:o)]

Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.

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Posted by leighant on Friday, September 9, 2005 11:12 PM
Houston East and West Texas >> "Hell Either Way Taken"
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Posted by markn on Friday, September 9, 2005 11:18 PM
a friend who worked at N & W during college said it meant "Nights and Weekends"
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 10, 2005 12:30 AM
My favorite..

"can't spell stUPid without the UP"..

Utterly Pathetic...
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Posted by miniwyo on Saturday, September 10, 2005 1:13 AM
MRL - Monkeys Running Loose

RJ

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Posted by PNWRMNM on Saturday, September 10, 2005 4:16 AM
Hell Either Way Taken - Houston East & West Texas, now know as "The Rabbit", I think becuase its profile and alignment look like the trace of a running rabbit's tail in three dimensions.
Always Tardy and Seldom Fast - ATSF

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 10, 2005 4:48 AM
Well - I still think that BN and SF should form Santa Northern RR :>
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 10, 2005 7:25 AM
NS = NAZI SOUTHERN
NS= NO SERVICE
NS= NO SUPERVISION
NS= NO ***
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