Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 11:49:04 -0500
From: Tom Stolte
Newsgroups: misc.transport.rail.americas
Subject: Railroad Nicknames in Order
ACR = Agony Central
Amtrak = Amcrash
Amtrak = Amtrash
ATSF = Annoying, Tempermental and Stupid Fans
ATSF = Argenta and Toad Suck Ferry
ATSF = All Tonnage and Slow Freight
ATSF = Assholes, Thieves, and Stupid F***ers
ATSF = Ate Tamales & Spit Fire
ATSF = All Tramps Ride Free
AT&SF = Always Trying, Still F***ed
B&M = Broken and missing
B&M = (Guilford) - Banks & Money
B&M = Broken & mangled
BM = Busted & Maimed
BN = Bankrupt Northern
BN = Big Northern
BN = Booze & Narcotics
BN = Big Nothing
B&O = Bad Order
B&O = Best & Only
BNSF = Bob's New Santa Fe
BNSF = Burlington Nothing and Sh** Faced
BNSF = Bigger Now, Same F***ing Railroad
BNSF = Buy Now Sell Fast
BNSF = Brand New Same F***ing Railroad
BNSF = Buy Now, Sell Forever
BNSF = Better Not Ship Freight
BNSF = Better Not Slip or Fall
BNSF = Bigger Now Still F***ed
BNSF = Big Nuts Shrivel and Fall
BNSF = Buy Norfolk Southern Fast
BNSF = Bigger Nothing, Still F***ed
BPS&D = Broken Pieces Strewn & Dropped
BPS&D = Bent Potted, Shitfaced & Decrepid
BPS&D = Big Pieces of Steam & Dieselized!!!
BS = Bull S***
BWT&S = Bobble, Wobble, Turnover & Stop.
C&NW = Cheap & No Wages
C&NW = Can't and Never Will
C&NW = Cardboard & No Wheels
C&NW = Coal and No Water
C&NW = Can Not Win (against the Omaha onslaught)
C&NW = Cheep & Nothing Wasted
C&NW = Can't and Never Will
C&O = Cheapskate & Oreo
C&S = Crooked and Slow
C&W = Crooked & Weedy
(Chesapeake & Western)
CGW = Chicago and Great Wheaties
CGW = Can't Get Worse
CGW = Chicago Great Weedy
CGW = Can't Go West
CGW = Can Grow Weeds
CI&L = Crazy Idiots & Lunatics
CMStP&P = Crushed, Mauled,STampeded, Pushed and Pulled
CN = Currently Negotiating
CN = Chicken Noodle
CN = Cost Nothing
CN = Certainly No Rush
CN = Crash National
CO&P = Clowns On Railroad Property
(Central Oregon & Pacific)
CP = Canuk Pacific
CP Rail = Cheapee Ragamuffins on Rail
Conrail = Con job
CR = Clown Rail
CR = Congressional Rip-off
CR = Currently Retired
CR = Can't Run
CR = Corn Rail
CR = The Coolest Railroad
CR = Crappy Rap
CRI&P = Corroded, Rusty, Indigent and Pathetic
CRI&P = The Cry 'n' Pee
CSX = Chicken S*** Xpress
CSX = Chemical Spill Xperts
CSX = Can't Stop Xeroxing
CSX = Consensual SeX
CSX = Conrail Screwed Xtremely
CTA = Catastrophies, Tragedies, Accidents
CTA = Chicago's Taken Again
(The bus line in Chicago)
D&RGW = Dangerous & Rapidly Getting Worse
D&H = Desparate & Hungry
D&H = Delay and Hesitate
DB = Diggin' Buggers (German RR)
DL&W = Delay, Linger, & Wait
DM&IR = Damn Miserable & IrRate
DSS&A = Damn Slow Service and Abuse
(Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic - Soo Line Predecessor)
DT&I = Damned Tired, & Incompetent
EJ&E = Egypt, Jerusalem, and Elsewhere
EL = Erie Lack of Money
EL = Ever Late
EMD = Every Model Different
FEC = For Elderly Citizens
GB&W = Grab your Baggage & Walk
(Green Bay & Western)
GE = Generally Elegant
Guilford = Goofy
GN = Going Nowhere
GT = Gone Too
GTW = Great
HE&WT = Hell Either Way you Take it
HT&W = Hoot Toot & Whistle
(Hoosic Tunnel & Wilmington - MA&VT)
IC = Ignorant Corporation
ICG = "I Can't Go."
JR = Junk Rail
(Japanese RR co)
JW&NW = "Jesus Wept and No Wonder"
(Jamestown, Westfield & North Western)
KCS = Kome C Small
L&PS = Late & Poor Service
(London & Port Stanley)
LE&W = Leave Early & Walk
LK&W = Look, Kuss, & Wait
L,O&S = Little, Old & Slow
LV = Like Vomit
Maryland, Delaware & Virginia Railroad = Many Dirty Visits
Maryland & Delaware = "The Muddy & Dirty"
M&StL = Movin' & Still Losin'
Macon, Dublin and Savannah = Mud, Dirt and Sand
MC = More crap
(Mass Central)
METRA = Many Evening Trains Running Around
MK&T = Many Killed & Totched
MN = More (of) Nothing (metro North)
MP = Mostly Pus*ies (mo pac)
MP = Miserly & Parsimonious
MP = Morons Prevail (as in the Borg from Omaha)
MRL = Make a right/Left??!!
NASA = Need Another Seven Astronauts
(yes they do have a railroad at Kennedy)
NJT = No Junky Trains (New Jersey Transit)
NJT = Need Janitors Touch
NJT = Not Just Trains
NKP = Nearly Kompletely Perfect
NS = No Show
NS = Nazi Squad
NS = Not Smart
NS = No Steam :-(
NW = No F***ing Women
N&W = Nights & Weekends
NYO&W = Not Yet Old & Weary
NYO&W = Now Young Out & working
NYO&W = No Young Overweight Women
NYO&W or the O&W = The Old Woman
NYS&W = Now You Sit and Wait
PC = Perfect Chaos
PC = Permenatly Currupt
PC = Pile [of] Crap
PGE = Please Go Easy or Prince George Eventually
(Pacific Great Eastern)
P&W = Pathetic & Wobbly
PRR = Pussie Rail Road
QA&P = Quit Arguing and Push
RI = Rusty Iron
SEPTA = Society for Eliminating Public Transit Altogether
SF = Suffering Fools
SF = Sani Flush
SOO RR = Silly Old Ordinary RR
SPSF = Shouldn't Paint So Fast
SP = Stupid Police
SP = Sh***y Property
SP = Surrendered Peacefully (need I say more?)
SP = Stupid Pussies
SP = Sufferin Pacific
SP = Stand Proud
SP = Suffering Painfully
SP = Sorry and Pathetic
SS = Sh**ty Stuff (Seaboard System)
T&P = Time and Patience
TH&B = "To Hell and Back"
TH&B = Thump, Hump, & Bump
TP&W = Tired, Poor and Weary
UP = Unlimited Power
UP = Unstopable Power
UP = Ugly Power!!!
UP = Uncle Pete
UP = Unlimited Parking (This is from an employee)
UP = Utterly Putrid
UP = Uncle Pete
UP = Un Painted
WATCO = Wild Ass Train COmpany
WBT&S = Wobbly Bobbly Turnover and Stop
(Waco, Beaumont, Trinity & Sabine)
WC = We're Cheap
WC = Whiskey Central
WICT = Wicket
WW&F = Weak, Weary & Feeble
(Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington - 2 foot gauge in ME)
WM = Wild Mary
WP = Wobbly Pathetic
WP = Wayside Property
WP = Wasted Property
WP = Weed Producers
WSOR = Wobbly Slow Old and Rusty
YD = Yellow Dog (Yazoo Delta)
Written in the cab of a locomotive that I was riding,
I read the following:
Uphill slow,
Downhill fast.
Tonnage first,
Safety Last.
Duane Cooke
Tom Stolte
Oddballs Decals
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McLouth, Kansas 66054
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