On the Seneca Lake, Ontario, & Western (registered pike with the NMRA), call letters SLOW, our slogan is: “We’ll Get There Sooner or Later”
im just playing with one on my version of trainz 2006
its a freelance design too
BOULDER CREEK AND SOUTHERN The coal hauling road!
“Expressway for Industry” - Detroit & Toledo Shoreline
shawnee,
You hit the nail on the head. “Southern serves the South” and will forever.
Thanks for Using Coast Line and The Route of Courteous Service. These are ACL and SAL slogans.
Gotta agree with Brakie on “Everywhere West,” but I think UP’s “We can handle it” was pretty good, too.
Western Pacific “WP” The railroad of Willing people, of which most of the employees just before the UP buy out, changed to “WP The road of Worried People”
As bb4884 said, “Be Specific - Ship Union Pacific” - or - “Route of the Streamliners”!![:D]
I like the RailBox slogan,but I forgot how it goes.[D)]
Gotta go with what I model, “Everywhere West” and “Route of the Zephyrs”. But the DT&I had a pretty good one too…“We have the CONNECTIONS”
Rick
[#ditto]This would be the one!
My second would probably be “Ship and Travel Santa Fe all the Way”
It is a pitty the Q didn’t live up to their “Everywhere West”. They could have.
That would be “Next Load Any Road”
Hmmm, that must be a common theme for free lance railroads. I’ve heard it before. Perhaps the “Southern Arizona & Douglas”.
For my Shalvey Central Railroad, I use “Gateway to the Imagination”.
I think it came from ‘Gateway through the Rockies’ (Rio Grande?)
Teditor
Vermont and South Troy; VAST
Think Fast, Ship VAST
Thanks to TrainFreak409 for helping me finally come to a decision.
While the Q did not serve western states beyond Colorado, Wyoming and Montana directly, their connections made transconnental shipments and travel possible, especially since they were the first direct Chicago to Denver line. And of course, being part of the Hill lines really did open upo the west to them.
Rick
My freelanced Penn Lake System’s slogan…The Anthracite Speedway.
I’ll put in a second vote for D&H’s Bridge Line to New England and Canada.
I like Reading’s Bee Line Service, too.
Nick
Union Pacific - BUILDING AMERICA
Chicago & North Western = Cheap and Nothing Wasted
I don’t care if it wasn’t an official slogan, but it did fit the road perfectly well. They gave their tired GP7’s a new life by rebuilding them with new prime movers, a low nose, and new electrical components. The ties on their track were in place until they absolutly had to be replaced. That would be the reason why I see so many '58 C&NW date nails in northern Wisconsin.
Depots can be placed in this category too. They didn’t tear down all of their depots. They did interior renevations (Well, at least the Oxford depot was rebuilt) and they were given a new coat of grey paint and used as M-O-W offices.
Most of the lines in Wisconsin still had Semaphore siginals and ancient crossing protection well into the late 80’s (not to say others didn’t too, but these were well maintained). Wig-Wags could be found at Baraboo, and other towns.
And I am sure I am missing a ton of things, but the Cheap and Nothing Wasted will always be a true feature of the once mighty Chicago and North Western.
Phil
All of the slogans that I like have been mentioned. I’ll add votes to “Everywhere West”, “Next Load Any Road”, and “Route of the Rock”. Those are my favorites.
I’m pretty proud of the one’s that I came up with for my soon to be freelanced railroad, “Bridging Prosperity”. This will be used for my Wisconsin, Minnesota, & Northern railroad, the WM&N.