I know some of the major ones like Milw and BNSF and B&O and others but I would like a full list of what each railroad initial is and what does it stand for. If this is not the right place move it if you want. THANK YOU for your help guys.
Barb- I do not know of a specific site that has a list of all-time reporting marks. But here is one for current companies: http://www.trainscan.com/data/mark/mark_m.html Boxcab E50
Here ya go my dear. http://www.railspot.com/gif/railspot/rp082.html http://www.trainscan.com/data/mark/index.html
SP - Superior Performance!!! Barb, Here's a great site: http://members.rogers.com/iancranstone2001/report.html
C&NW......Cheap and nothing waisted CNW........(According to my Navajo brother, Foreman..) CAN NOT WORK! UP...... Unbearable Pressure, Un-Productive, Unlimited Parking......hehehehehe!
D&RGW: Dilapidated & Rapidly Getting Worse Dangerous & ..... CGW: Crabgrass Great Weedy Seriously, this is a great resource for whos initials mean what: http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?t=74019
In NMRA Bulletin November 1973 was a list about Railroad Nicknames: I've added one. :angel: :angel: :angel: ACELA Amtrak Customers Expect Late Arrivals ASHLAND & WOOSTER Almost & Wasn’t ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE All Tramps Start Footing Ate Tamales & Spit Fire All Tramps Sent Free ATLANTIC & GREAT WESTERN The Broad Gauge BALTIMORE & ANNAPOLIS Bumps & Agony BALTIMORE & OHIO Best & Old Bad Odor Beefsteak & Onions Best & Only Beef & Oysters BELFAST & MOOSEHEAD LAKE Belly Ache & Many Lumps Butchered & Mostly Lean BELLAIRE, ZANESVILLE & COLUMBUS Bent Zig-Zag & Crooked Poor Man’s Railroad BIG FOUR 6 AM Crowd – the workers 7 AM Crowd – the clerks 8 AM Crowd – The Shirks BOSTON & MAINE Busted & Mined Broken & Mangled Busted & Maimed Bologna & Mustard BUFFALO, ROCHESTER & PITTSBURGH Bumpy, Rocky & Peculiar BN Bunglington Nothing Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Big Noisy Slow Freight Better not start a family Bad New Spreads Fast CAROLINA & NORTHWESTERN Can’t & Never Will CHESAPEAKE & OHIO Cold & Old Creepy & Old Sleeps Like A Chessie CHICAGO, ATTICA & SOUTHERN Come Along Sometime CHICAGO, BLUFFTON & CINCINNATI Corned Beef & Cabbage CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY Cheapest, Bestus & Quickest Cheapest, Biggest & Quickest Come Boys & Quit Railroading CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN Can’t Get Worse CHICAGO, KALAMAZOO & SAGINAW C. K. & Easy Cuss, Kick & Swear CHICAGO, PEORIA & ST. LOUIS Cockle Burr CINCINNATI, HAMILTON & DETROIT Cursed, Hanged & Doomed CINCINNATI, HAMILTON & DAYTON R.R. Charges High & Damn Rough Ridin’ Cold Hungry & Dirty CINCINNATI, NEW ORLEANS & TEXAS PACIFIC Connections No Object, Tickets Please CINCINNATI, PORTSMOUTH & VIRGINIA Coats, Pants & Vest CLEVELAND, COLUMBUS, CINCINNATI & ST. LOUIS Can’t Cut’er Cookie, Steam’s Too Low CLEVELAND & SOUTHWESTERN Green Line COLORADO & SOUTHERN Crooked & Slow Cough & Snort COLORADO & WYOMING Carpenter & Walrus DANSVILLE & MT. MORRIS Dead & Mortified DELAWARE & HUDSON Delay & Hesitation DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN Delay, Linger & Wait Damn, Long & Weary “Route of the Phoebe Snow” Delay, Linger and Wait Delaware lack of money DENVER & RIO GRANDE Denver & Greasy Rag D&RGW Dangerous and Rapidly Getting Worse DETROIT & MACKINAC Defeated & Maltreated Didn’t Make It DETROIT, TOLEDO & IRONTON Daigos, Tramps & Indians Damn Tired & Indifferent Damn Tired & Insolvent Damn Tied & Inconvenient DUBUQUE & DAKOTA Damned Doubtful DULUTH, MESABI & NORTHERN Damn Mean & Nasty “The Iron Ore Line” DULUTH, SOUTH SHORE & ATLANTIC Damn Small Salaries & Abuse EASTERN TENNESSEE, VIRGINIA & GEORGIA Eat Turnips, Vinegar & Greens EASTERN TENNESSEE & WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA Eat Taters & Wear No Clothes Exquisite Trains & What Nice Conductors “Tweetsie” GEORGIA, FLORIDA & ALABAMA Gophers, Frogs & Alligators GEORGIA & FLORIDA God-Forsaken GEORGIA, SOUTHERN & FLORIDA Go Slow & Flag GOLOVIN BAY R.R. “Wild Goose Railroad” GRAND RAPIDS & INDIANAPOLIS Grow Rich & Independent GREAT NORTHERN PACIFIC & BURLINGTON Goin’ No Place & Back GM&O Greasy Muddy & Oily HOUSTON, EAST & WEST TEXAS Hell Either Way You Take It HOUSTON & TEXAS CENTRAL Hoboes & Tin Cans Hell on Texas Contractors HOOSAC TUNNEL & WILMINGTON Hoot, Toot & Whistle Halibut, Tuna & Whales Hold Tight & Worry Hot Tea & Whiskey Hog Tired & Weary Hop To & Walk INDIANA, BLOOMINGTON & WESTERN I’d Rather Walk INTERNATIONAL-GREAT NORTHERN Irishmen Going North JAMESTOWN, WESTFIELD & NORTHWESTERN Jesus Wept & No Wonder JEFFERSONVILLE, MADISON & INDIANAPOLIS Jerusalem, Mexico & Ireland Kingston and Pembroke Ry Kick n' Push LAKE ERIE & WESTERN Late East & West Leave Early & Walk LAKE SHORE ELECTRIC “The Yellow Line” LAKE SHORE & MICHIGAN SOUTHERN Ladies Sit & Men Stand Large Stations & Miserable Salaries Less Sleep & More Speed LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS & WESTERN Leave Kansas & Walk LEHIGH & HUDSON RIVER Late & Hardly Running Late & Hungry Riders LEHIGH & NEW ENGLAND Late & Never Early LIVE OAK, PERRY & GULF Lean Over, Push & Grunt LORAIN, ASHLAND & SOUTHERN “Wallacahoot” Lazy, Awkward & Slow LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE Long & Narrow LOUISVILLE, NEW ALBANY & CHICAGO Long & Narrow and Crooked MAINE CENTRAL “The Pine Tree Route” Manhattan, Alma and Burlingame Railway Maybe MARIETTA, CHILLICOTHE & CINCINNATI “The Black Diamond” MARYLAND & PENNSYLVANIA Ma & Pa MINNEAPOLIS & ST. LOUIS Midnight & Still Later Maimed & Still Limping Misery & Short Life MISSOURI, KANSAS & TEAS “The Katy Line” MISSOURI & NORTHERN ARKANSAS May Never Arrive MISSOURI PACIFIC Meat & Potatoes MoPac MoP MOOSE HEAD & NORTH FORK Moosehead & No Further MORRIS & ESSEX Methodist & Episcopal NEVADA, CALIFORNIA & OREGON Narrow, Crooked & Ornery NEVADA COUNTY NARROW GAUGE Never Come, Never Go NEWBURGH, DUTCHESS & CONNECTICUT Never Did & Couldn’t NEW HAVEN Never Hurry No Haste Numerous Halts NEW ORLEANS & NORTHWESTERN No Omelettes & No Eggs NEW YORK CENTRAL & ST. LOUIS New Years Came; Stayed Too Long NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD New York, New Haven & Hardly Moving New Years, No Home & Hungry New Years, Not Hail & Hearty Now Your Home & Hungry Now Your Near Home & Happy “Shore-Line Route” NEW YORK, ONTARIO & WESTERN Old & Weary Now Young, Out & Working NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA & OHIO Nypo NEW YORK, SUSQUEHANNA & WESTERN Now You Sit & Wait NORFOLK & SOUTHERN Noisy & Slow NORFOLK & WESTERN New & Wealthy Nap & Wake Nervous & Worried NORTHERN OHIO TRACTION & LIGHT CO. Never On Time & Late Never On Time & Lazy NWP Nowhere In Particular Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Old and Late Coming Ontario and Western Old Woman Old & Weary OHIO RIVER & WESTERN Ol Riggly & Wobbly PENN CENTRAL P-Cutter PENNSYLVANIA, POUGHKEEPSIE & BOSTON Pickles, Pork & Beans PIERRE, RAPID CITY & NORTHWESTERN Plenty Rough Country & No Water PITTSBURGH, CINCINNATI & ST. LOUIS The Panhandle PITTSBURGH, FORT WAYNE & CHICAGO Pigs Feet, Whiskey & Cigars PITTSBURGH, LISBON & WESTERN Pig Liver & Weenies PITTSBURGH, MARYSVILLE & CINCINNATI “The Calico Road” PORTLAND RAILWAY LIGHT & POWER “The Trout Route” RICHMOND, FREDERICKSBURG & POTOMAC Run Fast & Push Rich Folks & Pedigrees RIVER TERMINAL RAILWAY Rip & Tear Ready to Run, R.T.R. SANDUSKY, NORWALK & MANSFIELD Stop Now & Monkey Santa Fe Sani Flush ST. JOHNSBURY & LAKE CHAMPLAIN Still Jogging and Late Coming ST. LOUIS & SAN FRANCISCO “The Frisco Line” SOUTHERN PACIFIC Sufferin’ Pathetic STOCKTON TERMINAL & EASTERN Slow Tired & Easy SPSF Shouldn't Paint So Fast SUMPTER VALLEY Polygamy SRR Shake Ratttle and Roll TALLULAH FALLS Total Failure TERRA HAUTE & PEORIA Take Hold & Push TEXAS PACIFIC & WESTERN Take (your) Parcels & Walk TORONTO, HAMILTON & BUFFALO To Hell & Back TOLEDO, PEORIA & WARSAW Tramps Please Walk The Tip Up TOLEDO, SAGINAW & MUSKEGON Tea, Sugar & Milk Too Slow to Mention TONOPAH & TIDEWATER Tonopah & Topsy Turvey Union Pacific Under Powered Unlimited Parking Union Pathetic WABASH, CHESTER & WESTERN Wobble Crooked & Wooble WACO, BEAUMONT, TRINITY & SABINE Wobbly, Bobbly, Thump & Squeal Wobble, Bobble, Turnover & Stop WEST VIRGINIA CENTRAL & PITTSBURGH Watch Very Carefully & Proceed Wellington and Powellsville Old Walk and Push ZANESVILLE & WESTERN Zealous & Willing WESTPORT TERMINL Weird Tramps Waddling Tramp Wobble and Turnover Wolfgang
The ill feted SPSF merger should have meant "Shouldn't Paint So Fast" as both SP and ATSF painted locomotives and other equipment in the merger scheme only to have the ICC say NO.
Makes a person wonder what the US RR world would look like today. Considering mergers since then, and how what alignments might have happened otherwise. Boxcab E50
A few other names I recall hearing: BNSF: Been Nothing Since Frisco Chicago and Northwestern: Cheap and Nothing Wasted Cracked and Not Working Green Bay and Western: Grab Baggage and Walk Good Beer and Whiskey Southern Pacific Transportation Company - SPTC: Stupid People Taking Charge - From a friend. And from SPTC stationary I have. Waco, Beaumont, Trinity and Sabine: Wobble, Bobble, Turnover and Stop Union Pacific: TOO many to mention!
Delaware lacawana DL Canadian Pacific CP Rail or CPR Norfolk southern NS southern railway SOU norfolk western NW CSX CSX (dont really know what it stands for but i do know C-Chessy S-seabord) Burlington Northern BN Canadian national CN Helm Leasing Co HELX Santa Fe SF Southern pacific SP Union pacific UP Luzerne sesquahana L&S (my local short line) Chicago North Western CNW Montana Raillink MRL Delaware and hudson D&H Lehigh valley LV Reading and Northern R&N to many others
Huh? I think you're confusing The New York Central and The New York, Chicago, & St. Louis, aka The Nickel Plate. One pre-breakup Conrail cab ride video I've seen has the conductor calling the two companies involved 'Chessie Cat' and 'Nazi Southern.' Personally I still call it Cornrail. I once heard about a model railroad named 'The Nickel Norbash,' I use that one all the time. And then there's the 'Beano.' For foreign power we get Beansniff's punkins and occasionally some yellow Youpers.
In at least several of the western states, Burlington Northern was, and always will be remembered as Bad News. BoxcabE 50
CSX......crime scene express. Plus lots of controversey over the radio waves.. Like when things are extra screwed UP you end yer' transmition with "Have a U-P day".....
