What are your Favorite Railroad Nicknames?

[joemcspadden]

My favorite is the term NS employees have used for the engines'
boring black and white color scheme: "Roanoke Rainbow."

[E. Hunter]

BNSF

Big Nasty Stupid F***ers

[Anonymous]

Minneapolis & St. Louis

emmonsaintell

The Louie 

Maimed and Still Limping

Midnight and Still Later

The Saint

 

[SD60M]

BNSF= Better Not Start a Family!

UP= Union Pissed

IC= I cant stand CN!

ATSF= A Trashed Silver Failure

WC= We dont need CN

SP= Simply Pathetic

 

[EJE818]

I found this topic and I have noticed quite a few about CSX. Here are a few I know.

UP: Unlimited Parking, Utterly Pathetic, Uncle Pete

BNSF: Big Newer Santa Fe. Buy Norfolk Southern Soon

CN: Crooked Noodle, Cheap Nonsense, Come on now and gave back the good railroads!, Cash Now

CSX: Crash Slam Explode (nickname by NS employees)

CP: Cheap Profits

NS: Nobody's Slower, Nonsense Starters (nickname by CSX employees)

WC: We Provide Cool Power to you, Welcome Customers

IC: I want CN out

CNW: Cheap & Nothing Wasted

[morseman]

I'm suprised no one has come up with my favorite

C&O Can Do.

[Anonymous]

I believe you, Old Timer.

[Anonymous]

CPR
call'em park'em relieve'em

[Anonymous]

Sorry, smalling_60626. The LI was the "Route of the DASHING Commuter".

Old Timer

[Anonymous]

If I haven't mentioned it before, Long Island Rail Road used to call itself the "Route of the Rushing Commuter" !

[techguy57]

QUOTE: Originally posted by 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".

AltonFan- wasn't this the shortline that was originally routed to go through the golf course in Lake Zurich but some of the members claimed exemption by claiming that the part of the course that the track was supposed to run through was the site of three graves or something to that effect. If I remember right, they got the trackage re-routed but no one knows who, if anyone is actually buried in the graves.

Mike

[vsmith]

NC & W = Narrow, Crooked, & Wobbly

[rockisland4309]

BNSF-Big Nothing So Far
NS-No Such
UP-Uncle Pete
Amtrak-Amtrash

[rockisland4309]

BNSF-Big Nothing So Far
NS-No Such
UP-Uncle Pete

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by artmark

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainheartedguy

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

Cheap Sounding Xylophone.

Mitch

CSX = Can't Stop & eXplain
CSX= Crash, Stop & eXplode

[Tulyar15]

QUOTE: Originally posted by smalling_60626

Umm . . . does "crank" have the same meaning in the UK as here? I don't mean "elderly single-issue kook."

It has a double meaning in UK. It can mean crank, as in crank axle on an inside cylindered steam loco, but it can also mean "single-issue kook." over here too!

[Anonymous]

Umm . . . does "crank" have the same meaning in the UK as here? I don't mean "elderly single-issue kook."

[TrainFreak409]

UNION PACIFIC--USELESS POWER.

~[8]~ TrainFreak409 ~[8]~

[rvos1979]

I still call the UP the PU.

Randy

[SALfan]

QUOTE: Originally posted by keithland

My favorite is also the LOP&G which ran right by my home in Mayo in the 50's & 60's called the Lopin' Gopher. It actually stood for Live Oak , Perry & Gulf.

Also known as the Loaf Off, Pig & Grunt.

[Tulyar15]

We've got quite a few nicknames in Britain too

The old Somerset and Dorset was "Swift and Delightful" to its admirers but "Slow and Dirty" to its detractors.

Likewise the Great Western (GWR) was "God's Wonderful Railway" to its devotees but "Great Way Round" to those less keen on it. More recently in the 1980's GWR was the Scottish Region of British Rail (or ScotRail as it has become) or "Green's Wonderful Railway" after Chris Green the Regional Manager who went on to become head of Virgin ("Vermin") Trains.

Perhaps the most tragic nickname was the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire railway which never made a proft. It was said "MS&L" really stood for "Money Sunk and Lost". When it extended to London and changed its name to Great Central somebody figured GC stood for "Gone Completely". Sadly this proved to be the case, but it was a heroic failure!

Other British Nicknames:-

Midland & Great Northern - "Muddle and Get Nowhere"
London, Chatham & Dover - "Land 'em, Smash 'em and Turnover".

One or two preserved lines have nicknames too:-

West Somerset Railway - "Will Something Run?"
East Lancs. - "Greased Cranks"

[Anonymous]

Old NY state interurban line Jamestown, Winslow and North Western: Jesus Wept, and No Wonder.

CN - Conrail North

Ohio Narrow Gauge Bellaire, Zanesville and Coshocton (?): Bent, ZigZag and Crooked

NKP predecessor Lake Erie and Western: Leave Early and Walk

GM&O: Goat's Milk and Onions; Good Money and Overtime

D&RGW - Dangerous and Rapidly Getting Worse

Old Timer

[coborn35]

GTW:Get the Winch!

SP:Slow Progress

NS: No Smarts

MP: Many Problems

DTI:Dumb,Tired,Ignorant

[railfan619]

SP slow Packing
UP Under paid
GW Getting Wasted

[coborn35]

Great Northern: Great Nothing
Amtrak: D***trak
Chicago and Northwestern: Couldn't,Never,Wont

[railfan619]

I got some

UP Under powered

CNW CANT NO ONE WORK

N&S NO SERVICE

CP Cheap Power

These outta give you some laughs [:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

[Anonymous]

Yes, but the stack trains are prettier than the norm--at least on the route I'm most familiar with.

[GP-9_Man11786]

NS: No Style

All they run are those boring black Dash-9s!

[Trailryder]

Here in Northern Illinois between 1905 and 1925 there was a little electric interurban trolley known as the Sterling, Dixon & Eastern (SD&E) otherwise known as the Slow, Dead & Easy.

Later Bill

[Anonymous]

BNSF---Bigger New Santa Fe