Railroad Nicknames Oct. 1997
Rich White II
Tom Stolte wrote:
What? No:
Canrail
Union Pathetic
Southern Pathetic
Natzi Southern
And don't forget.... all of those "Histerical" Societies....
Personally, some of them were good.. some were pretty stupid. You need
names that people can still identify a railroad too... The "Coolest
Railroad" and "Crappy Rap" would never make sense to another railfan by
the tracks.... But CornRail was pretty good!
--
Rich White II - rwh...@cimnet-folders.com
CIMNET Field Applications Engineer
J.N.L. Industries, Inc.
Tom Stolte
Here is listed all the Railroad Nicknames that people have sent me over
a period of many months. I hope more will follow. If you do not see a
nickname listed, please e-mail me, or post them here. Many thanks to
all that have sent me nicknames.
Some of the full names I do not know, what are these railroads?
If you know what some of them are, Please tell me and I will
replace it with the full name. Thanks. Enjoy!
Tom Stolte - mlw...@lvnworth.com
Also visit my web site when you have the time.
http://members.aol.com/RSD15Gator/oddballs.htm
ACL
Another Crushed Load
ALCO
Always Leaking Coolant & Oil
Algoma Central RR
Agony central
All curves and high bumps
Amtrak Amcrash
Amtrash
Amcrap
Amquack
Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe
Ate Tamales & Spit Fire
All Tramps Ride Free
Annoying, Tempermental and Stupid Fans
Argenta and Toad Suck Ferry
All Tonnage and Slow Freight
Assholes, Thieves, and Stupid F***ers
Always Trying, Still F***ed
All Tramps Sent Free
Ashcan, Toiletbowl & Sani-Flush
BART [SF Bay Area Rapid Transit]
Bay Area Reckless Transit
Boston & Maine
Broken and missing
(Guliford)- Banks & Money
Broken & mangled
blind and misguided
beguiled and misribule
Busted & Maimed
Busted & Mined
Bashed & Maimed
Burlington Northern
Big Nothing or Bankrupt Northern
Big Northern
Booze & Narcotics
Big Nothing
Burlington Northern & Santa Fe
Buns with Nothing, Salt and Fat, Buy Norfolk Southern and get Fat
Better Not Slip or Fall
Bob's New Santa Fe
Burlington Nothing and Sh** Faced
Bigger Now, Same F**king Railroad
Buy Now Sell Fast
Brand New Same F**king Railroad
Buy Now, Sell Forever
Better Not Ship Freight
Bigger Now Still F*cked
big nuts shrivel and fall
Buy Norfolk Southern Fast
Bigger Nothing, Still F***ed
Been Nuthin' Since Frisco!
Big New Santa Fe
Buy NS First
black nubian sex freak
believe nothing shoot first
Big Nasty Stinky Fart
BuN SnifF
Bunch a Nitwits and Stupid F**ks
Bullshit Northern Super Freaks
Baltimore & Ohio
Bad Order
Best & Only
Beefstake & Onions
Bankrupt & Overdrawn
Bumpy & obsolete
BPS&D Broken Pieces Strewn & Dropped
Bent Potted, Shitfaced & Decrepid
Big Pieces of Steam & Dieselized!!!
Birmingham Southern
Bull s***
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh
Bumpy, Rocky & Peculiar
BWT&S Bobble, Wobble, Turnover & Stop.
Bellaire, Zanesville & Cincinnati
Bent, Zigzag & Crooked
CalTrain [SF-SJ commuter train]
CowTrain
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Cold, Hungry & Dirty
Cheap Help and Damned Poor Management
Charges High and Damn Rough Riding
Chicago & North Western
Cheap & No Wages
Can't and Never Will
Cardboard & No Wheels
Coal and No Water
Can Not Win (against the Omaha onslaught)
Cheep & Nothing Wasted
Can't amd Never Will
Chicago & NoWhere
Caroline & North Western
Can't & Never Will
Chesapeake & Ohio
Cheapskate & Oreo
Controlling & Overpowering
Colorado & Southern
Crooked and Slow
Cough & Snort
Chesapeake & Western
Crooked & Weedy
Colorado & Wyoming
Carpenter & Walrus
Chicgo & Great Western
Chicago and Great Weaties
Can't Get Worse
Chicago Great Weedy
Can't Go West
Can Grow Weeds
Chicago & Illinios Midland
Cheap and Ill Managed
Chicago Kalamazoo and Saginaw
Cus Kick & Swear
Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville (Monon)
Crazy Idiots & Lunatics
Clinchfield RR
can't run railroad
cantankerous rotten rumguts
Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul & Pacific (Milwaukee Road)
Crushed, Mauled, STampeded, Pushed and Pulled
Cheapest, Meanest and slowest to Pay
Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific
Connections No Object, Tickets Please
Canadian National
currently negotiating
Chicken Noodle
Cost Nothing
Certainly No Rush
Crash National
Canadian National Rairoad
Can Not Rush
Central Oregon & Pacific
Clowns On Railroad Property
Canadian Pacific
Canuk Pacific
Cheapee Ragamuffins or rail
Canadian Pathetic
Conrail Con job
Clown Rail
Criminal Rail (Con Rail)
Congresssional Rip-off
currently retired
Can't Run
Corn Rail
The Coolest Railroad
Crappy Rap
Big Blue; Q-Blue
Chicago Rock Island & Pacific
Corroded, Rusty, Indigent and Pathetic
The Cry 'n' Pee
Come Right In & Pee
Conductors Rob Innocent Passengers
Crip or Crippy (as in crippled)
CSX Transportation, Inc.
Chicken S*** Xpress
Carrying Several Xylophones, Charred Sizzled and X-Rayed
chemical spill xperts
Can't Stop Xeroxing
Consensual SeX
Conrail Screwed Xtremely
Crap & Scrap Xperts
Creepin' Slow Xpress
Cut Scrap and here's the scissors to do it with.
Chicago Transit Authority (The bus line in Chicago)
Catastrophies, Tragedies, Accidents
Chicago's Taken Again
Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern
Dog Meat Express
Dilapidated, Mutilated & Explode
Dominion Atlantic Railway
Dust and Rust
Dubuque & Dakota
Damned Doubtful
Denver & Rio Grade Western
Dangerous & Rapidly Getting Worse?
Dirty & Rapidly Getting Worst
Dirty Ragged & Greasy
Delaware & Hudson
Dying & Hemhoraging
Desparate & Hungry
Delay and Hesitate
Detroit & Mackanac
Defeated & Mistreated
Deutsche Bahn (german RR)
Diggin buggers
Depew, Lancaster & Western (is actually) Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Destitute, Lacksadasical and Weary
Delay, Linger, & Wait
Desperately Lacking Wampum
Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range
Damn Miserable & IrRate
Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic
(Soo Line Predicessor)
Damn Slow Service and Abuse
Damned Small Salaries & Abuse
Dirt, Soot, Smoke, and Ashes
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton
Damned, Tired, & Incompetent
Dirty I
East Broad Top
Eat beans and Toot
Elgin, Joliet & Eastern
Egypt, Jerusalem, and Elsewhere
Erie
Weary Erie
Dreary; Eerie; Weary
Erie Lackawanna
Erie Lackawampum
Eriee Lack of Money
Ever Late
Electro-Motive Division General Motors Corp.
Every Model Different
Easily Maintained Diesels
East Tennessee and Western North Carolina
Eat 'taters and wear no clothes
East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
Eat Turnips, Vinegar & Greens
[post Civil War, food was scarce]
Florida East Coast
For Elderly Citizens
F***ing Employees Constantly
I first heard this one from an ex-FEC employee... they were one of the
first roads to go non-union
F*** Every Crew
F*** Every Customer
Fecie
Frankfort & Cincinnati Railroad
Fart & Cough
Green Bay & Western
Grab your Baggage & Walk
GC
Gone completely
General Electric Co.
generally elegant
Georgia, Fla. & Alabama
Gophers, Frogs & Alligators
Ga. & Fla.
G_d-Forgotten
Ga. Southern & Fla.
Go Slow & Flag
Guilford
Goofy
Guillotine
Great Northern
going nowhere
GT gone too
Grand Canyon
gland canyon
Grand Trunk
great
Grand Junk
Grand Funk
Grand Trunk Pacific
Get There Perhaps
Great Western Railway
God's Wonderful Railway / Great Way Round
Gas Works Railway
Houston, East & West Texas
Hell Either Way you Take it
Hoosic Tunnel & Wilmington (MA&VT)
Hoot Toot & Whistle
Hog Tied & Weary & Hot Tea & Whiskey
High Point Thomasville & Denton Railroad
High Priced Ticket & Damn Rough Ride
Houston & Texas Central
Hoboes & Tin Cans; also:
Hell on Texas Contractors
(had trouble paying its bills)
Illonis Central
ignorant corporation
Ill Cent (Sent)?
Illonis Central Gulf
"I Can't Go."
International Great Northern
Irishmen Going North
I&O
Incomplete & Overextended
Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis [PRR sub]
Jerusalem, Mexico & Ireland
Jamestown, Westfield & North Western
Jesus Wept and No Wonder
"said to have sprung from the brain of a traveling salesman after one
trip over the road" -A Treasury of Railroad Folklore
Japanesse RR Co.
Junk rail
Kansas City Southern
Kome C Small
Keep Cutting Staff
London & Port Stanley
Late & Poor Service
Lake Erie & Western [NKP predecessor]
Leave Early & Walk
Leavenworth Kansas & Western
Look, Kuss, & Wait
Lehigh & Hudson River
Late & Hungry
Long Island Rail Road
Wrong Island Rail Road
Long Island Snail Road
Least Intelligent Railroad
Louisville & Nashvile
Long & Narrow
Long & Nasty
Late & Never
Louseyville & Nastyville
Lousy & No good
LMS Lose 'em, mix 'em & smash 'em
London & North Eastern Railway
Late Never Early Railway
L,O&S Little, Old & Slow
Live Oak, Perry & Gulf
Lean Over, Push & Grunt
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Large Stations & Miserable Salaries,
Less Sleep & More Speed
Lehigh Valley
Like Vomit
Lost Venture
Leaky Valley
Manchester, Dorset and Granville
Mud, Dirt and Gravel
Maryland, Delaware & Virginia Railroad
Many Dirty Visits
Maryland & Delaware
"The Muddy & Dirty"
Maryland and Pennsvlvania
Ma & Pa
Minneapolis & St. Louis
Movin' & Still Loosin'
Midnight & Still Later
Maimed & Still Limping
Misery & Short Life
Middletown & Hummelstown
Muddletown
Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire
Mucky Slow & Lazy
Money sunk and lost
Macon, Dublin and Savannah
Mud, Dirt and Sand
Mass Central
More crap
Maine Central
Mean Central
METRA
Many Evening Trains Running Around
Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)
Money Thrown Away
More Trouble Ahead
MD&S Might Damn Slow
Missouri Kansas & Texas
Many Killed & Totched
Morristown & Erie
Morristown & Everywhere
me and ernie
Ben Central (for owner Ben Friedland, it's the most
common nickname in use by its own employees, and by the area buffs.)
Morris & Essex
Methodist & Episcopal (pre DL&W in N.J.)
...because they had no Sunday trains until 1899
Missouri & North Arkansas
May Never Arrive
Metro North
more (of) nothing
Missouri Pacific
Misery Pacific
Mostly Pus*ies
Miserly & Parsimonious
Morons Prevail (as in the Borg from Omaha)
MUNI [SF light-rail/bus]
Muniserable
Montana Rail Link
Make a right/Left??!!
"Merl", as in Haggard
MTA (NYC)
More trouble Ahead
NASA need another seven astronauts
(yes they do have a railroad at Kennedy)
Nevada County Narrow Gauge (in Calif.)
Never Come Never Go
None Colorado Narrow Gauge
Never Come, Never Go
Nevada-California-Oregon
Narrow, Crooked & Ornery
Newburgh, Dutchess & Connecticut
Never Did & Couldn't
Norfolk Western
No F***ing Women
Nofokkin Way
New England Central
Never Ending Commotion
New Hope & Ivyland
No Hope
Norfolk & Western
Nights & Weekends
Norfolken Way
Needless & Worthless
New Jersey Transit
No Junky Trains
Need Janitors Touch
Not Just Trains
"Nudge"
NJ Train-set
New Orleans & North Eastern
No Omelets, No Eggs
New York Central
no you can't
New York & Atlantic Railway (NYAR)
Not Yet A Railroad (Before May 15th)
Now You're A Railroad (After May 15th)
New York Amateur Railroad
New York, New Haven & Hartford
New Years No Home and Hungry
NYC Subway BMT
Buglers Murders and Thugs
Norfolk Southern
No S**t
No Show
Nazi Squad
Not Smart
Noone's Safe
Next Sucker
No Steam
Nothing Soon
Not Sanitary
Nidon't careS
Northwestern Pacific (a Southern Pacific subsidiary)
Nowhere in Particular
Never was prompt
New York, Susquehanna & Western
Now you sit and Wait
Nickel Plate
Nearly Kompletely Perfect
No Known Prototype
New York, Ontario & Western
Now young out & working
No Young Overweight Women
The Old Woman
Old And Weary
Not yet old & weary
Omaha Lincoln & Beatrice
Over Lincoln & Back
P&L
Puke & Lick it
Penn Central
Political Charade
Perfect Chaos
permenatly currupt
pile [of] crap
Pacific Great Eastern
Please Go Easy or Prince George Eventually
Pretty Goddamn Expensive
Provincial Government Expense
Province's Greatest Enterprise
Providence & Worcester
Pathetic & Wobbly
Pittsburgh, Ft Wayne & Chicago [PRR predecessor]
Pigs Feet, Whiskey & Cigars
Pierre, Rapid City & North Western
Plenty Rough Country & No Water
Pere Marquette
Poor Marquette
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pussie Rail Road
Poor Ragged Rascal
QA&P quit arguing and push
Rock Island
Rusty Iron
Richmond, Fredricksburg, and Potomac
Rich Folks & Pedigrees
Run Fast & Push
Rio Grande
Real Grungy/Grimy
Reading
Dreading
Seaboard Coast Line
Service Customers Lack
Salzkammergut-Lokalbahn
SKGLB, from Salzburg to Bad Ischl, abandoned in the 1960s,
SKGLB Sie kommt gar langsam und bedächtig,
It comes very slowly and without any hurry.
S & D Slow & Dirty / Serene & Delightful
South East and Chatham Railway
Slow Easy And Comfortable
Southeast Pennsylvania Transit Authority
Society for Eliminating Passenger Trains in America
Society for Eliminating Public Transit Altogether
Santa Fe
Suffering Fools
sani flush
St Johnsbury & Lake Champlain
St Jesus & Late Comin'
SOO RR Silly Old Ordinary RR
Sothern Pacific Santa Fe
Shouldn't paint so fast
...because they painted the locos in anticipation
of a merger that
never went through
Southern Pacific
Smelly Perch
Stupid Police
sh***y property
Surrendered Peacefully (need I say more?)
stupid pussies
Sufferin Pacific
Stand Proud
suffering painfully
sorry and pathetic
soot princess
Super prick
supreem procrastinator
Sh*t Power
Seaboard System
Sh!tty stuff
Staten Island Rapid Transit
the SIRT (rhymes with Cert.)
Stockton Terminal & Eastern
Slow, Tired & Easy
Sumpter Valley Railway
Polygamy Central or Stump Dodger
Susquehanna
the "Squeak"
Texas & Pacific
time and patience
The Monon Route
The Moron Route
Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo
"to hell and back"
Thump, Hump, & Bump
Terra Haute & Peoria
Take Hold & Push
Toledo, Peoria & Western
Tired Poor and Weary
Texas Pacific & Western
Take Parcels & Walk
Twin Mountain & Potomac (Wva narrow gauge orchard rr)
Two mules and a pony
Union Pacific
unlimited power
unstopable power
Ugly Power!!!
Uncle Pete
Unlimited parking (This is from an employee)
Utterly Putrid...Uncle Pete....Un Painted
Uppity Pacific and Uppity Pee.
unimaginatve paint
ulitmate privy
yoU Pee
Useless Pr*cks
Utterly Pathetic
VIA Rail
VIA Snail
WATCO Wild Ass Train COmpany
Waco Beaumont Trinity & Sabine
Wobbly Bobbly Turnover and Stop
Wheeling and Lake Erie
Walk and leave early
Wisconsin Central
We're Cheap
Whiskey Central
Wisconsin & Calumet
Wicket
Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington (2 foot gauge in ME)
Weak, Weary & Feeble
Western Maryland
Wild Mary
White Pass & Yukon Route
Wait Patiently and You'll Ride
Western Pacific
Wobbly Pacific
Wobbly Pathetic
wayside property or wasted property
weed producers
worn-out paint
wear protection
"the Wobbly"
Wisconsin & Southern - WSOR
Wobbly Slow Old and Rusty
wizzer
West Va. Central & Pittsburgh
Watch Very Carefully & Proceed
Yazoo Delta
Yellow Dog
Loren Petrich
In article <343156A6...@lvnworth.com>,
Tom Stolte <mlw...@lvnworth.com> wrote:
>Southeast Pennsylvania Transit Authority
> Society for Eliminating Passenger Trains in America
> Society for Eliminating Public Transit Altogether
Its acronym is SEPTA, which some turn into "Septic".
--
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