What are your Favorite Railroad Nicknames?

[mvlandsw]

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

[mvlandsw]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[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]

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

Ornery, Rotten & Nasty.

--John

[gemperfilm]

N&W Nights and Weekends or Nasty and Weary

[Anonymous]

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

[TH&B]

CPR is Chinese Pacific or sleepy-R

[zardoz]

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

[Anonymous]

Cp canadian power or canadian pride

[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

[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]