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What are your Favorite Railroad Nicknames?

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espeefoamer
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Posted by espeefoamer on Tuesday, January 6, 2004 8:58 PM
D&RGW.=Derailments&Really Good Wrecks.[:D]
Ride Amtrak. Cats Rule, Dogs Drool.
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joseph2
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Posted by joseph2 on Tuesday, January 6, 2004 8:40 PM
A 1920 Indiana shortline was named the Chicago,Bluffton and Cincinatti.Locals nicknamed it the Corned Beef and Cabbage.Erie Lackawanna was Weary and Lackin Wampum.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 6, 2004 6:46 PM
LOP&G..... Sorry...forgot the 'O'
Lopin' Gopher
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, January 6, 2004 6:45 PM
LP&G.....around 30's in Florida....Live Oak, Perry, & Gainesville Line known as the
Lopin' Gopher
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 1, 2004 3:37 PM
CNW Crimnals Now Working
BN BIG NOTHING
BNSF Buy Norfork Southern Fast
UP Utterley Pathoetic
ACL Another Crushed Load
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 1, 2004 3:16 PM
CNR
1.Chinese National Railway
2.Can not run
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locomutt
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Posted by locomutt on Wednesday, December 31, 2003 8:47 AM
B & O Had a cat also; BESSIE
I would put the NF&G down,but the only nickname
I know would be quite[censored] And that is by the
people who worked there,also some very close friends.


locomutt[censored]

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Posted by jchnhtfd on Monday, December 29, 2003 9:20 AM
I've always rather liked the one for the St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County, up in northern Vermont...
St. Jesus and Late Coming
for very good reasons...
Jamie
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cpbloom
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Posted by cpbloom on Saturday, December 27, 2003 2:34 AM
Only 3 I heard not seen here:

NS = Nazi Southern

BNSF = Buy Norfolk Southern Fast!

BNSF = Burlington Needs Santa Fe
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Posted by GDRMCo on Friday, December 26, 2003 7:22 PM
NYC no you can't
PRR perfect RR power RR
CSX cheap suckers xpress
BNSF but not saftey first
BCR big cheap rail
EL excursion land
IC interurban c---
SSW south shore wailways
UP Uncle Pete U pee
SP ESPEE
C&S cr__ & sh__

ML

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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 26, 2003 9:56 AM
"Cold Hungry & Naked" - Charlotte Harbor & Nothern, and "Missing & Still Lost"-M&StL
are 2 of the better I've heard. I'm always hearing "Crash Spill & eXplode" and "Can Someone eXplain This" for my local road.
RayE
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 25, 2003 8:52 PM
TP&W had many;
Take Pride and Walk, Take Patience and Wait, Two Ponies and Wagon, Tired, Poor and Weary, Tried Proven and Willing, The Peoria Way, and my favorite Take Paper & Wipe.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 22, 2003 6:49 AM
Some of my favorites

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

OR&W old rusty and wobbly

WM wild mary
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Posted by kenneo on Monday, December 22, 2003 1:35 AM
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.
Eric
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kenneo
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Posted by kenneo on Monday, December 22, 2003 1:26 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by espeefoamer

Central Oregon&Pacific.=Clowns On Railroad Property.


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

AKA --- corps --- as in dead body.
Eric
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Posted by mudchicken on Monday, December 22, 2003 1:11 AM
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
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 Anonymous on Sunday, December 21, 2003 12:03 PM
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
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, December 21, 2003 11:55 AM
NS

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

LC
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, December 21, 2003 2:37 AM
missouriandnorth arkansas
M@NA
men not appreciated
UP dispatchers said may not arrive.......[8D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 20, 2003 11:33 PM
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
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 20, 2003 11:10 PM
MKT--Men Killing Time
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ironhorseman
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Posted by ironhorseman on Saturday, December 20, 2003 10:13 PM
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 [:-,]

yad sdrawkcab s'ti

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TRNBUF
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Posted by TRNBUF on Saturday, December 20, 2003 10:07 PM
CSX stands for "Chicken Sh-- Express". Sorry for the bad word but I couldn't help myself.

~MIKE 

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jeaton
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Posted by jeaton on Saturday, December 20, 2003 7:07 PM
Miserable, Tired & Weary-Marinette, Tomahawk & Western-Proud to be as wide as the biggest Class 1's.

"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo Possum "We have met the anemone... and he is Russ." Bucky Katt "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in physics

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AltonFan
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Posted by AltonFan on Saturday, December 20, 2003 4:38 PM
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".

Dan

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espeefoamer
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Posted by espeefoamer on Saturday, December 20, 2003 4:25 PM
Central Oregon&Pacific.=Clowns On Railroad Property.
Ride Amtrak. Cats Rule, Dogs Drool.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, December 20, 2003 2:09 PM
LMFAO at wabash1. That is something I can relate to.
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wabash1
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Posted by wabash1 on Saturday, December 20, 2003 11:06 AM
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.
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JoeKoh
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Posted by JoeKoh on Saturday, December 20, 2003 7:07 AM
Mookie will appriciate this one...
Chessie was a good cat
stay safe
Joe

Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").

 

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CSSHEGEWISCH
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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Saturday, December 20, 2003 6:42 AM
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".
The daily commute is part of everyday life but I get two rides a day out of it. Paul
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