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What are your Favorite Railroad Nicknames?

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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 16, 2004 9:12 PM
CNR

Cooks and Numbskulls Railway
Crooks and nobrains RR
Conquer and Nullify Railway
Clumsy nutheads RR

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, April 16, 2004 9:22 PM
SP: Superior Performers, Sqashing Pumpkins, Speed Punks

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 3, 2005 11:10 PM
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.
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Posted by traingeek087 on Monday, July 4, 2005 12:18 AM
Union Pacific, as said by Amtrak - Unlimited Parking
Rid'n on the city of New Orleans................
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 9, 2005 2:30 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by trainheartedguy

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


The good ole' folks at MRR forums came up with some pretty good ones:
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?page=-1&TOPIC_ID=39890&REPLY_ID=413375#413375

You have to get about halfway down the first page before the silly ones pop up.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 9, 2005 3:29 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by trainheartedguy

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


Cheap Sounding Xylophone.

Mitch
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 9, 2005 3:33 PM
GM&O-Go More Often
CRI&P-Come Right in and P
SP-SF-Shouldn've Painted So Fast

Mitch
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 9, 2005 5:04 PM
Gateway Western as the Weebly Wobbly. Fit that one well.
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Posted by Junctionfan on Saturday, July 9, 2005 5:34 PM
Penn Central-Park n Crash
Andrew
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Posted by CopCarSS on Saturday, July 9, 2005 8:47 PM
One of the very few that I've heard of that wasn't too derrogatory:

CB&Q: Cheapest, Best and Quickest

-Chris
West Chicago, IL
Christopher May Fine Art Photography

"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration." ~Ansel Adams

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 10, 2005 4:16 PM
And then before the SP/up merge?.........

Suffer'n Pacific.

Virlon
save your ticket.... the P.E. will rise again.
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Posted by wctransfer on Sunday, July 10, 2005 5:33 PM
CNR
Cant No one Ride

CNW
Crews Never Workin

WC
We Can

NS
Next Sold
None Slower
Nicer Stopped

BLE
Bought Lotsa Espee
Been Leavin Early
Bought Leftover Engines

GBW
Guys Being Reckless

GN
Great Nothin

CP
Cash Please
Cant Provide

CGW
Can Grow Weeds
Chicago Great Weedy

IC
I Cant

GTW
Got Them Workin









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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 10, 2005 5:54 PM
BNSF---Bigger New Santa Fe
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Posted by Trailryder on Sunday, July 10, 2005 7:41 PM
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


If You Don't know where your going, Any Road will Take you There.
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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Sunday, July 10, 2005 8:31 PM
NS: No Style

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

Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.

www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com 

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 11, 2005 1:10 AM
Yes, but the stack trains are prettier than the norm--at least on the route I'm most familiar with.
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Posted by railfan619 on Monday, July 11, 2005 8:37 PM
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]
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Posted by coborn35 on Monday, July 11, 2005 8:56 PM
Great Northern: Great Nothing
Amtrak: D***trak
Chicago and Northwestern: Couldn't,Never,Wont

Mechanical Department  "No no that's fine shove that 20 pound set all around the yard... those shoes aren't hell and a half to change..."

The Missabe Road: Safety First

 

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Posted by railfan619 on Tuesday, July 12, 2005 6:15 PM
SP slow Packing
UP Under paid
GW Getting Wasted
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Posted by coborn35 on Tuesday, July 12, 2005 8:21 PM
GTW:Get the Winch!

SP:Slow Progress

NS: No Smarts

MP: Many Problems

DTI:Dumb,Tired,Ignorant

Mechanical Department  "No no that's fine shove that 20 pound set all around the yard... those shoes aren't hell and a half to change..."

The Missabe Road: Safety First

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 12, 2005 10:19 PM
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
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Posted by Tulyar15 on Wednesday, July 13, 2005 7:19 AM
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"
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Posted by SALfan on Wednesday, July 13, 2005 11:00 AM
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.
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Posted by rvos1979 on Wednesday, July 13, 2005 11:41 AM
I still call the UP the PU.

Randy

Randy Vos

"Ever have one of those days where you couldn't hit the ground with your hat??" - Waylon Jennings

"May the Lord take a liking to you and blow you up, real good" - SCTV

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Posted by TrainFreak409 on Wednesday, July 13, 2005 11:50 AM
UNION PACIFIC--USELESS POWER.

~[8]~ TrainFreak409 ~[8]~

Scott - Dispatcher, Norfolk Southern

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, July 13, 2005 6:44 PM
Umm . . . does "crank" have the same meaning in the UK as here? I don't mean "elderly single-issue kook."
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Posted by Tulyar15 on Thursday, July 14, 2005 5:34 AM
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!
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Posted by vsmith on Thursday, July 14, 2005 11:56 AM
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

   Have fun with your trains

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Posted by rockisland4309 on Thursday, July 14, 2005 12:01 PM
BNSF-Big Nothing So Far
NS-No Such
UP-Uncle Pete
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Posted by rockisland4309 on Thursday, July 14, 2005 12:03 PM
BNSF-Big Nothing So Far
NS-No Such
UP-Uncle Pete
Amtrak-Amtrash
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