What are your Favorite Railroad Nicknames?

[vsmith]

I'm partial to nicknames road employees gave railroads usually based on the letters painted on the tenders or engines.

I would love hear how others refered to different raillines. I'll start:

My favorite is from the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railway,

NCNG....Never Comes, Never Goes.

What others are there?[8D]

[Anonymous]

Chicago & North Western--C&NW:

Can't & Never Will;
Cheap & Nothing Wasted.

White Pass & Yukon Route--WP&YR:

Wait Patiently & You'll Ride.

--John

[Anonymous]

Cp canadian power or canadian pride

[zardoz]

When I was with the C&NW we called it the "Cheap & Nothing Works".

[TH&B]

CPR is Chinese Pacific or sleepy-R

[Anonymous]

Yazoo & Mississippi Valley RR = "The Yellow Dog" (slow-moving trains; yellow coaches).

[gemperfilm]

N&W Nights and Weekends or Nasty and Weary

[Anonymous]

Oregon Railway & Navigation Co.: O.R.& N.--

Ornery, Rotten & Nasty.

--John

[Anonymous]

Western Maryland - "Wild Mary" because there was no room for tangets in the curves. They were focused on getting freight over the mountains and valleys as fast as steam power can do it. Even at a cost of a few broken drawbars and a few dizzy crew.

[Anonymous]

Wish I had one for CSX, but you can't do much with an X.

[mvlandsw]

Pacific Great Eastern -- PGE -- Please Go Easy -- Because of the lightly built right of way.

[mvlandsw]

No reflection on the railroad or the people but as a railroad name CSX SUX.

[CSSHEGEWISCH]

I know of several good ones:
NYO&W - either "Old Woman" or "Old and Weary"
NYSW - either "Squeak" or "Susie-Q"
Lake Erie & Western (became part of NKP) - "Leave Early and Walk".

[JoeKoh]

Mookie will appriciate this one...
Chessie was a good cat
stay safe
Joe

[wabash1]

the ns railroad
1) the no sense railroad
2) the no show railroad
3) the no sh ( oops cant say that here)

Had a union pacific engine once that said you cant spell stupid with out "UP"
csx chicken sh ( oops not again) exspress.

[Anonymous]

LMFAO at wabash1. That is something I can relate to.

[espeefoamer]

Central Oregon&Pacific.=Clowns On Railroad Property.

[AltonFan]

There used to be a shortline in what is now the northwest suburbs of Chicago called the Palatine, Lake Zurich and Wauconda. The railroad was built late, poorly capitalized, and suffered so many mishaps that the locals called it "the PLZ and Walkback".

[jeaton]

Miserable, Tired & Weary-Marinette, Tomahawk & Western-Proud to be as wide as the biggest Class 1's.

[TRNBUF]

CSX stands for "Chicken Sh-- Express". Sorry for the bad word but I couldn't help myself.

[ironhorseman]

Well the nickname I like isn't as clever or a joke like the trend of this thread is but I've always like the the Katy RR (MKT: Missouri Kansas Texas). Actually, I find it interesting that they ignored the M in Missouri when the nickname became Katy (K-T).

Take that Missouri!

With regards from your Kansas neighbor [:-,]

[Anonymous]

MKT--Men Killing Time

[Anonymous]

Chessie System - Faster than a game of chess
C&O - Competitive and odorous
B&O - Big and original
CSX - Cracking steel crossovers
UP - Utter Panic
C&NW - Chaos and no-one watching
AMTRAK - Always Making [bad] Time ... really [should stay] Around Kansas
Idunno[(-D].....I just like coming up with these things.
Trainheartedguy

[Anonymous]

missouriandnorth arkansas
M@NA
men not appreciated
UP dispatchers said may not arrive.......[8D]

[Anonymous]

NS

1. Nuttin' Special
2. No Service
3. No ***ter (bathroomless)
4. No sh (what Wabash said)
5. No Sale

LC

[Anonymous]

Amtrak

1. Spamtrak

LAL (Livonia Avon & Lakeville)

1. Less and Less
2. Lonesome and Lovely

VRS (Vermont Rail System)

1. Only one I heard was too profane for this forum...

CN

1. Cold North


LC

[mudchicken]

ATSF= Always Thinking Safety First
BN= Big Nuthin (What's Green & White and goes Kaboom in the night?)
UP= Usually Pathetic (Alias the Yellow Peril)
SP= Slow Pokes
SSW= Somebody Stopped Where?
C&S= Crooked & Slow
MP=Muddy Path
C&W = Corroded & Wrecked
GCW=Grain Corn Wheat

[kenneo]

QUOTE: Originally posted by espeefoamer

Central Oregon&Pacific.=Clowns On Railroad Property.

[:D][:D] I believe that!

AKA --- corps --- as in dead body.

[kenneo]

Also,
the Oregon-Washington Railway and Navigation Company, successor to the ORN above is known as the "O-Dub". One of the better of Uncle Petes Yellow Perril lines. From Huntington west and Portland north and to Canada via Spokane and the SI. (Do we need to be careful about that red lettering on yellow paint folk getting us $5 a pop for using their name???)

Pacific Railway and Navigation Company. Formerly the Tillamook Branch of the Slow Poke (but it did get there), now the POTB --- Punk Rotten and Nasty.

[Anonymous]

Some of my favorites

HT&W hold tight and worry or hoot, toot and whistle

OR&W old rusty and wobbly

WM wild mary