PLEASE, DON'T ANYONE PUT A CONTRACT OUT ON ME.....

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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Remember, this is just for fun. So many people are acting as though further diminution of the number of Class One railroads is inevitable, shouldn’t we be trying to document these lines as they are now . . . or as the devil in me thinks the worst side of them MIGHT be.

Not that you’ll ever hear it from the corporate publicists, but which of the following book titles do you find the most offensive? No radio buttons because you’re all going to bless me our or suggest fallen flags, shortlines, etc.

Please vote on the following: "My favorite nasty book would be . . "

“THE WORLD’S LONGEST SHORTLINE” – Kansas City Southern

“UNCLE PETE, UNDER POWERED” – Why the U.P. can’t make it

“CHESSIE GOES TO HELL” – Today’s CSX

“TAKING GRAPHIC DESIGN STRAIGHT INTO THE 1960s” – The BNSF swoosh.

"WOULD SOMEONE PLEASE STOP THESE JACKALS
BEFORE THEY THINK THEY CAN RUN AN AMERICAN
RAILROAD?" – Canadian efficiency and American charm: CN

“THE HATFIELDS MEET THE SNOPSES” – A study of corporate inbreeding: NS’s shotgun wedding.

“WE’RE MAKING OOT VERY WELL, THANK YOU” – CP, nobody’s favorite takeover target

By the way, “Allen Smalling” is just a pseudonym. My real name is “Commodore Chico von Wabash.” [}:)]

Happy training! [8][8][8][8][8][8]

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Just a thought,
if you want to have a poll on which one is the best tag line, try setting it up in a poll format so people can vote. Might get a few more responses

Of course, I thought UP stood for Under Performance.

John k

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I trhought UP meant “usually parked”

mike

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I always thought UP was a direction

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Hugh, you mean things are looking UP?

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What about the TFM?

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“Snopses” is not in my dictionary.
Amtrak is not in your list.
“Send Lawyers, Guns and Money” is by Warren Zevon, and perhaps fits
Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern.

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Originally posted by nanaimo73

“Snopses” is not in my dictionary.

I’ll excuse you since you’re Canadian and a bit less familiar with American Literature but you apparently have never read William Faulkner[;)]

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Jeez, not having to read Faulkner is a great incentive for me to become Canadian.

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Lets hope we don’t some day have a book called “One big happy family, the story of America’s ONLY class one railroad”. Enough with the mergers!

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I vote for the one about BNSF. I am still holding a grudge against them for the horrible new logo they chose and quit radding on the UP everybody they are a great railroad ( even though what everyone said is true). No railroad can be perfect. Also where is the Amtrak bashing? I am sure there are lots of people on the forums who are fed up with Amtrak.

UP FOREVER!

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You are holding a grudge to a company 'cuz you don’t like the new logo? :rollseyes:

The “Chessie Goes to Hell - today’s CSX” is pretty funny.

Adrianspeeder

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I’m not Canadian, and haven’t read Faulkner. Would one of you literature types please explain Snopses?

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Here is some interesting titles of fallen flags.

ERIE LACK OF MONEY-Erie Lackawana’s fate.

Struggle of the South West-The SP Story

Railroading off the rails-Penn Central

Split Personalities-Post Conrail

Snow, Steel and Wood-Ontario Northland

Sun, Storms and Rails-Florida East Coast

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Good going, Junctionfan. Maybe you could add “labor disputes” for the FEC?

SInce no one thought of going to amazon.com and globalling “Snopse” or “Snopses,” let me just say that the Snopse family was Wm. Faulkner’s quintessentially “white trash” family. They appear on and off in some of the novels and mostly on in one trilogy–called, appropriately enough, the “Snopes Trilogy.” As the 20th Century roared on, the Snopses did better and better for themselves until they were finally running “The Hamlet” and other political entitites. The point I was trying to make is that one clan were Hillbillies and the other Deep South. Not unlike N&W merging with Southern. Don’t anybody pick on me for ethnic stereotyping: I’m of southern US stock, part Scot-Irish and part English, and all feisty. I could also practically TOUCH the N&W trains that went past our little house in Emory, Virginia.

Not that I’m complaining, considering who runs CHICAGO.

I didn’t do Amtrak because it isn’t really a railroad to me. I love passenger trains but Amtrak, if it were private, would have gone out of business by 1972.

TFM was a good idea, but all I could think of was some Speedy-Gonzalez type puns. Not politically correct and perhaps never were! Can you think of something? Oh, and the"F" word in the middle made an irresistible adjective, but I don’t want to send that kind of word out on the net; there may be impressionable rainfans’ children there.

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I like them all!! They all describe the railroads very well.[;)][(-D]

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I hate UP the most because of the “LACK” of service! But you don’t hear me complaining about it. I don’t like the new BNSF “SWOOSH” line eather,But after while it tends to grow on you. I don’t care for the NS because of the hostal attack when CSXT&Conrail where talking about a Merger.Like I said. Im not complaining.
Allan.

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Jolly good show, the Chessie one made me smile[:)]. Might I add this fallen flag one:

Everywhere Union Pacific Went, Just Slower – A Brief History of the Denver & Rio Grande

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I’m sure every one has heard of this one
C&NW Cheap & Nothing Wasted

or hows this
C&NW first out of Chicago, last to die in Chicago.

Later Bill

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TOO FUNNY!!! I loved em yes the BNSF Nike swoosh does kinda grow on you ( at least to me as they write the checks now) IMRL was the I might make a real living -the story of the Washington fiasco. Interesting Milwaukee Rock Link How to make two carriers live again.
TFM that universal adjective will get you everytime but lets try Tres Frio Mexicanos Three Mexican railroaders get sent to chicago in the winter?
So many names so little time!