Railroad Nicknames
paul Veltman
Since Mark Smith brought up the nickname Suzie Q, I thought that I would
run the nickname list around again for your entertainment. Please feel
free to hack this list and add what you like.
Regards,
Paul <vel...@netcom.com>
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Railroad Nicknames
- A -
Amtrak
Animaltrak
Anthrax
AmWreck
AmTrash
AmCrash
Atcheson, Topeka & Santa Fe
All Tramps Sent Free
Ate Tamales and Spat Fire
Shouldn't Paint So Fast (SPSF after aborted merger)
- B -
Bridgton and Saco River
Busted and Still Running
B&O
The Bum's Own.
Black Mesa and Lake Powell
Big Mess and Lots of Problems
Boston and Maine
Busted and Mangled
Bankrupt and Moribund
Broken and Maimed
Burlington Northern
Big Nothing
Bowelington Movement
- C -
Chesapeake & Ohio
Cheapskate and Ohio
Chesapeake & Western
Crooked & Weedy
Chicago and North Western (C&NW)
Cheap and Nothing Wasted
Can't and Never Will
Can't And Never Will Run Right
Carrier to No Where
Cardboard and No Wheels
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Cheapest, Best & Quickest
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Baby Railroad
Chicago Great Western (CGW)
Chicago Great Weedy
Colorado and Southern
Crooked and Slow
Conrail
The Constipated Railroad Company
Con Job
CSX
Chicken Sh*t eXpress
- D -
D, M & E (Dakota, Minnesota, and Eastern)
Desolate, Miserly, and Emancipated??
The Davenport, Rock Island, and Northwestern Railway
Dri Line
Dig Right In and Never Weaken
Delaware Lackawanna & Western
Delay Linger and Wait
Denver and Rio Grande Western
Dangerous and Rapidly Getting Worse
- E -
EJ&E
Egypt, Jerusalem and Elsewhere
The East Tennessee and Western Carolina Railroad (ET&WNC)
Tweetsie
Eat 'Taters and Wear No Clothes
Erie Lakawana
Erie Lackatraffic
Weary Lack-a-money
Leery Erie
- F -
The Frankfort & Kokomo line
the rabbit track line, because of the side-to-side jogs the rails
took.
Fort Smith and Western
Footsore and Weary
- G -
Grand Trunk Western
Good Track
Great Northern
Great Nothing
Goes Nowhere
Great Western Railway
Great Way Round
God's Wonderful Railway
Go When Ready.
Goods Waggon
Gee Whiz
Gas Works Railway
Gone With Regret
Green Bay & Western
Go Broke & Worthless
Guilford
Goofy
Gulf, Texas and Western
"Get a Ticket and Wait"
"Get a Ticket and Walk"
- H -
Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington
Hoot Toot and Whistle
Halibut Tuna and Whale
Houston, East & West Texas
Hell Either Way you Take it
- I -
Illinois Central Railroad (ICRR)
I Can't Run Railroads
- K -
Kansas City Southern (KCS)
Haywire
- L -
Long Island RR
Wrong Island
Louisville & Nashville (L&N)
Loud & Noisy
- M -
Maine Central
The Mighty Maine Central
M&StL (Minneapolis & St. Loius)
Miserable & Still Limping
The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company
Tom Moore Eats Rats and Likes Corn
Morristown and Erie
Morristown and Everywhere
Ben Central
- N -
Nevada County Narrow Guage RR
Never Come Never Go
New York Central
Not Yet, Cornelius!
New York Ontario & Western
Old & Weary
Old Woman
Now Young, Out and Working
New York Susquehana & Western
Now You Sit & Wait
Susie Q
Nashville & Eastern (NERR)
Never Ever Runs Right
Nittany & Bald Eagle
Never Been Early
Norfolk & Western
Nights & Weekends
Norfolk Southern
No Service
New Southern
NorthWestern Pacific
No Where in Particular
Never Without Public Regard
- O -
Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain
Old and Late Coming
OR&W
Old Rusty (or Rickety) and Wobbly
- P -
Pacific Great Eastern
Province's Greatest Expense
Penn-Central
Pathetic Connection
The Patapsco & Back River Rairaod (Serves Bethlehem Steel Sparrow's
Point Plant)
The Push, Bang and wReck RR
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie
Pissed off and Left Early
- R -
Reader RR (Arkansas)
Possum-Trot Line
Richmond, Fredricksburg & Potomac (RF&P)
The Doggie Railroad
The Capital Cities Route
- S -
St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County
St. Jesus and Late Coming
Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes
Slow Running and Rather Late
Seaboard System (SBD)
Slowly Breaking Down
Slow Board System
Southern Pacific
Sufferin' Pathetic
Suffering Pacific
SOO Line
ZOO LINE
Stockton, Terminal & Eastern
Slow, Tired & Easy
- T -
Texas and New Orleans
The Hickory
Toronto Hamilton & Buffalo
To Hell & Back
- U -
Union Pacific
Uncle Pete
Unlimited Power
Under Powered
- W -
Waco, Beaumont, Trinity & Sabine
Wobbly, Bobbly, Turnover & Stop
Weatherford, Mineral Wells and Northwestern
Watermelons, Mineral Water and Nowhere
Whiskey, Mineral Water and Nowhere
(Weatherford called itself "The Watermelon Capitol of
the World." and Mineral Wells was a spa for mineral baths in
the 20's and 30's)
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Walk & Leave Early
Wiscasset, Waterville, and Farmington
Weak, Weary, and Feeble
Gary Kazin (PBMA)
and disinherited niece of Uncle Pete (Union Pacific, UP, Unlimited Power...)
There are many others: The defunct New York, Ontario, and Western was known,
at the road's urging, as "Owen W." (O and W); that's similar to the trailers
here that ran for the Pacific and Atlantic trucking line having a black and
white bear on them - P and A -> Panda.
The Saint Louis - Southwestern was known as the Cotton Belt because of the
territory it served.
Anybody care to add more nicknames?
Paul J. Pakus
>Since Mark Smith brought up the nickname Suzie Q, I thought that I would
>run the nickname list around again for your entertainment. Please feel
>free to hack this list and add what you like.
>
>Regards,
>
>Paul <vel...@netcom.com>
>
>
Great list, Paul. I'll add a couple:
Maryland and Pennsylvania Ma and Pa
San Diego and Arizona Slow, Dirty, and Aggravating
In the case of the SD&A, I'm guessing that the nickname was pretty accurate
given the terrain it had to travel.
Paul J. Pakus But wise old I
NRaD San Diego go rocketing by;
pa...@nosc.mil I'm riding on the railroad.
N6KWC Ogden Nash
Neil Carlson
>
>Hi Gang,
>Since Mark Smith brought up the nickname Suzie Q, I thought that I
would
>run the nickname list around again for your entertainment. Please
feel
>free to hack this list and add what you like.
>
>Regards,
>
>Paul <vel...@netcom.com>
>
Toronto Hamilton & Buffalo (TH&B) -- To Hell & Back
After a ride on this line at 80mph in their old heavyweight coaches,
one understood what this nickname was all about!
Neil Carlson
Santa Cruz
Peter Lukas
to BC Rail? ) was also known as the please go easy.
jb...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
: Another nickname from the pastt is the Pacific Great Eastern ( precurser
: to BC Rail? ) was also known as the please go easy.
It was also known as "Prince George, Eventually" in honor (???) of the
amount of time it took for the railhead to get there.
I don't recall seeing anything regarding Canadian National & Canadian
Pacific written here yet so:
CNR - Certainly No Rush
CPR - Chinese Pacific
--
James Brock / Kathleen Rae --- jb...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Opinions dictated to us by Ivan & Anna Bunny!!
"A bad day railfanning beats a good day at work, every time!!"
Brian R. Watt
Here are a couple I haven't seen on this board:
Chicago & North Western (CNW) - Cardboard & No Wheels
Burlington Northern (BN) - Big Nothing
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific (CMStP & P a.k.a.
Milwaukee Road) - C'Mon Stop Praying & Push
Illinois Central Gulf (ICG) - I can't go
That's the best I can do - signed, an ATSF fan
p.s. We always used to call the Rock Island, "the CRAP," short
and bastardized from the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific.
Too bad that road died!
--
Richard Duda
was referred to as the "Methodist & Episcopal" because they had, for a
while, a staunch stand against Sunday service.
Mark D Bej
> > competition with his NYC&HR during the 1880's. When queried on what it
> > cost he commented "for what I paid for it, it should be Nickel Plated" (
> > or words to that effect).
>
> > rail...@netcom.com
>
> While the quote is properly (?) attributed to the Commodore, there
> was no competition with the NYC&HR, which only ran as far west as
> Buffalo. The competition was with his western connection, the Lake
> Shore and Michigan Southern.
Thanks, /bob/. My brow had not yet unfurrowed when I read your post.
But ... if the "Commodore" (for he was not) got control of it,
nickel plated or not, how did it then ultimately fall into the
Pennsy's hands? Or am I confusing it with the Wabash?
--
Mark D. Bej
Robert Schoenfeld
Pickpockets, robbers and bums
New York Chicago and Saint Louis
Nickel Plate
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> Nickel Plate
>
> de Bob
>
Where does the nickname "Nickel Plate" come from?
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Kenneth Skolyan
competition with his NYC&HR during the 1880's. When queried on what it
cost he commented "for what I paid for it, it should be Nickel Plated" (
or words to that effect).
I remember the 700's (2-8-4s) had "Nickel Plate Road" on their tender and
a very little nyc&stl up on the top of the coal bunker.
Paradise is pacing a fast train on a Harley FXR Lowrider!
Bob Thompson
> Commodore Vanderbilt bought the NYC&StL after it was built in direct
> competition with his NYC&HR during the 1880's. When queried on what it
> cost he commented "for what I paid for it, it should be Nickel Plated" (
> or words to that effect).
While the quote is properly (?) attributed to the Commodore, there
was no competition with the NYC&HR, which only ran as far west as
Buffalo. The competition was with his western connection, the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern.
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/bob/
thom...@robin.tezcat.com (Bob Thompson)
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Mark A. Bess
not have any access to the St.Louis market. So.....to the St.Louis fans of
the era:
N&W = Nickel Plate and Wabash
A few other, perhaps local slangs:
(no offenses intended - simply repeating what's been heard)
BN - Big Nothing; Frisco Northern
SP - Sufferin' Pacific
MP - Misery Pacific
MKT - Penn Central Western Division
CRIP - Wreck Island
TP&W - Tip-up
M-I (Missouri - Illinois)- Mike & Ike
Amtrak - Amtrash
Amfleet equipment - Amcans
Superliners - Stupidliners
Robert Schoenfeld
> > New York Chicago and Saint Louis
> >
> > Nickel Plate
> >
> > de Bob
> >
>
> Where does the nickname "Nickel Plate" come from?
>
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> Virtual Prototypes Inc. Montreal, Quebec, Canada
> schu...@VirtualPrototypes.CA
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The bilders of the Nickel Plate bilt it to compete with the Lake Shore
and Michigan Sothern form Buffalo NY to Chicago and another NYC
subsidiary going to St Louis. They then sold it to the NYC at a high
price hence NICKEL PLATE (as if the tracks and equiptment were nickel
plated and worth a lot)
It is a true story I'm told by several books
Kevin Tam
Some of us with the PV's have referred to amfleet as "spam cans" or as a
fluted tank train.
-Kevin
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