This probably twas a topic in the KB days.
Roarin’ Elgin for “Chicago Aurora & Elgin”
“Cheap and Nothing Wasted”, a C&NW nickname.
Rich
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“Leave early and walk” for the Lake Erie and Western is a personal favorite. I grew up on the N&W’s ex-NKP/LE&W Peoria-Frankfort line.
Chicken “Stuff” Express for CSX, as seen written inside the cab of C40-8 7556 back in 1990.
That’s a really good one.
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Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire - Money Sunk & Lost.
Glasgow Underground ---- Clockwork Orange
L&N long and nasty.
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Santa Fe was called Chico
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Lionel & Marx (L&M, a freelanced model railroad)–Loony & Manic!
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Remember the little cartoon advertisement on b&w TV with Chico (a little Native American) saying, “Santa Fe, all the way.” And then the announcer saying, “That’s right, Chico…”
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B & O - Best and Only
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Most old CNW employees I worked with said it was “Cheap and Nothing Works.”
Jeff
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Also nicknames for roads, not just comic pejoratives?
So for example Nickel Plate for New York, Chicago & St. Louis.
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With all of the ex-MILW employees that rushed to sign up for employment with Montana Rail Link in 1987, many said that “MRL” stood for Milwaukee Road Lives!
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mo-pac in e.e. cummings style lower case letters for the Missouri Pacific in the late 70’s/early 80’s.
MP / L&N - Dolton, IL by d.w.davidson, on Flickr
The L&N railroaders that I knew on the ex-C&EI Evansville line always referred to the Missouri Pacific as “the Mop”. That always made me think of a cleaning eagle instead of a screaming one!
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Got to use an ex-mopac engine last week. Complete with dual fuel fillers. May make a thread about that if anyone knows specifics as to why.
I used to refer to the “Erie Lackawampum” in the pre-Dereco days.
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May have been one of the SD40-2c “coal motors” used in run-thru service with the BN and Rio Grande: MoPac Power - SCREAMING EAGLES.
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So 1 filler for Mopac, one for Rio Grande, and one for BN?
I have some photos showing its current look if anyone is interested.
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CGW was at the end “Gone West” the British expression for “dead” aka, expired, joined the choir invisible, is no more.
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