LIRR - Long Island Railroad: “The Route Of The Dashing Commuter” or as he is known to us, “Dashing Dan”
Well, you made me go and dig. According to the book “Nickle Plate Story”, the term Nickle Plate Road was a nickname that came about in an editorial while Bellevue and Norwalk fought for the rights to be a division point on the railroad.
Nickle Plate High Speed Service was a slogan and it had an earlier slogan as the Meat Express Line.
Rick
My personal favorite is the PRR’s “Standard Railroad of the World” or “Fleet of Modernism” slogans. (Though the first is a bit ironic, due to the fact that the PRR used unique designs for almost every one of its steam locomotives.)
As for my Delaware & Thunder Creek Railroad, I use a couple slogans on boxcars and such. My favorites are “Route of the Rivers” and “Ship it Sleek Along the Creek”.
Welcome to the Delaware & Thunder Creek, where we say “what the heck” to actual history.
Route of the Dashing Turtle.
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-Kevin
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My own railroad, the Demons Hollow & Pacific , has the following slogan…
"If it’s got paint on it… it ain’t ours
Here are a few…
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A few I came across recently:
Cotton_Belt by Edmund, on Flickr
DTnI_logo by Edmund, on Flickr
And the ever-popular Wellsville, Addison and Galeton slogan:
I remember seeing quite a few of these cars still running in the early 1970s. I believe they leased them to the Penn-Central.
WAG served a few tanneries on the line, hence the “Sole-Leather-Line”.
Cheers, Ed
NP: Main street of the Northwest and Route of the North Coast Limited.
RF&P Linking North and South.
A&R Road of personalized service.
Missed this back when it first appeared. Any C & NW employee I ever met said it stood for Cheap and Nothing Works.
Jeff
Stockton, Terminal and Eastern
The slow, tired and easy
That would be Dashing Dottie. (My FIL was a lifetime employee, retiring in '73.)
Those are cool, but I’m partial to “The Water Level Route”.
A few years ago during the great Texas freight meltdown, this one floated: “You can’t spell stupid without UP”. I’m not a UP hater, but this was just too funny.
My favourite prototype and hometown railroad was the Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo, but the TH&B never had a slogan.
It was, however, also known colloquially as both the “To Hell & Back” and as the "Tramps, Hoboes & Bums.
Wayne
Surprised nobody mentioned Pennsylvania’s “Standard Railroad of the World” slogan. I always loved that one.
How many other railroads had their own airforce and navy and hotel chain?[(-D]
“We may be slow and incompetent, but we make up for it by being overpriced.”
I like practically all of UP’s slogans…
A pretty corny one, but the public would remember:
CSSnSB_111 by Edmund, on Flickr
Chicago, South Shore and South Bend, 1972.
Regards, Ed
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Was that ever their slogan? I do not remember ever seeing it painted on anything or in print.
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-Kevin
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That self proclaimed slogan was real but,I think it was used on business cards… PRR did use “Don’t Stand Me Still” slogan on some 40’ boxcars.
Some slogans from the 1960s are also interesting.
ACL, Another Cushioned Load
SCL, Smooth Cushiond Load
CRR, Clinchfield Cushion Car
FGE, For Greatest Efficiency
MEC, Modern Efficient Cushioning
MEC, Prime Mover for Maine Industry
GM&O, Cushioned for a Soft Ride …Inside
RI, cushion car- A Soft Touch for freight
SAL, Cushion Underframe for Perfect Product Protection
Soo, Custom Equipped for Custom Service
