I surly got a chuckle from that one. You sure made my day.LOL.[8D]
Allan.
“Chessie Goes to Hell” is your best title. Can I blame John Snow for that ?
“Milwaukee Road Lives” for MRL ?
Re: Rail Nicknames. Everybody’s doing a great job; I really like the creativity and history. As well as “Cheap and Nothing Wasted,” in the early Fifties the C&NW was also “Can’t and Never Will (Convert to diesel/put on air-conditioned commuter cars [I’ve heard both]).”
Maybe my favorite is the old East Tennessee and Western North Carolina (ET&WNC) RR. I believe that this railroad’s narrow-gauge portion is what gave us the original “Tweetsie” locomotive back in the Sixties. (“Tweetsie” has over the years become an amusement park with a train instead of a steam run with side attractions.)
The nicknames: Well, if you liked the service it was “Exquisite Train & What Nice Conductors”; if you didn’t you might describe the passengers as those who “Eat Taters & Wear No Clothes.” [;)]
“They call me tater salad.” – Comedian Ron White
The PGE-Please go easy
Another interesting book would be “Hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil-Conrail split” The cartoon can be a chessie cat with paws over its ears, NS stallion with a blindfold and uncle sam with a gag. All of them are shaking each other’s hand while customers in the background start sweating.
How about “D M & E , the Little Engine That Might” ?
chessie goes to hell? good title.how about CSX? Color Scheme X(for multiplied).
they run so many trains with diffrent schemes and leasers and borrowed power ya never know what your going to get.
stay safe
Joe
How about “D M & E , The Little Engine That Might?”
Chessie goes to hell is pretty darn funny, also i new BNSF just plain sucks, i have seen a new unit and i almost puked when it went by just plain terrible!!!
BNSF
Been Nothin Since Fe
I’m going to play the opposite side of the question here. Is there a railroad out there that ever had an honorable reputation or a good name ?
Sure, its more about your attitude. There is a long tradition that everyone knows who to run a railroad or a football team.
Even though it wasn’t on the original ballot, this one gets my write in vote:
…written by US Senator John McCain (?)
CC
Lack of candor has rarely been Sen. McCain’s problem.
I can’t think of anything bad about the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, and any acronyms seem rather strained (I mean, “Achoo…”?).
Probably what we now call the Southern Transcom had a bad rep when it was being built – American labor history not being known for its ententes cordiales–but the 1947 song using the line’s title shifted everything to the incurably upbeat. Appeared in the movie “The Harvey Girls” (MGM) and won an Oscar!
Trivia Note: Have you ever considered that a major statement in the song is completely false? It has lyrics about the line’s going “all the way to Cal-eye-forn-eye-ay” when in fact the whole premise behind the movie is that little “Sand Rock, N.M.” is the extent of civilization; that’s why Fred Harvey’s “girls” were so valued. [;)]