Re[2]: Railroad nicknames origins and such

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Chesapeake and Western: Crooked and Weedy. There is a history book of the same title.
John Samples
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>Atlantic & Danville - Ancient & Dilapidated. 
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>Greg Harrod
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>The GM&O twice:  Goats Milk and Onions, or Good Money and 
>Overtime.
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>EdKing
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>In my 
>years of living in Richmond, VA (post 1960) the RF&P was known as the “Run 
>Fast & Push.”
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>C. 
>Chamberlayne
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>In the FWIW department, I have accumulated maybe 450-500 
>quasi-official nicknames for various railroads, so penned 'back in the day', not 
>some modern day whimsey of someone's spur of the moment fancy. I am sure the 
>railroads poked at at nothing to do with any of these cuties, or not so cuties, 
>however the case may be.
> 
>The "rules" for such inclusion in the list are quite simple - 
>it has to be vintage, original and not just the momentary modern whimsy of some 
>fan or wannabe.
> 
>To admit some of them are quite amusing, some biting, some 
>not mention-able in today's politically correct type climate and some rather 
>ho-hum. Examples - N&W was known as 'Nights & Weekends", RF&P - Rich 
>Folks & Pedigrees", NYC - Not Yet Cornelius and the Waco, Beaumont, Trinity 
>& Sabine was also called Wobblety, Bobblety, Turnover & Stop." A 
>personal favorite is Houston & Texas Central - "Hell on Texas Contractors", 
>but all of these have an older kind of history to them. There are maybe a dozen 
>or more which are definitely not fit for this list so I shall not even attempt 
>to mention those here. See me at shows for some of those yummies. The N&W 
>one I think came from the late Tom Dressler, a long-time N&W man I seem to 
>recall.
> 
>The Uncle Pete is not a totally new name as has been 
>suggested, but one of longer standing when its CEO/President's first name was 
>Pete.
> 
>Better yet, see me at the N&W archives sometime. I've 
>gotten some of my cuter ones from former RR employees there, volunteers we 
>regularly see at the Salem Ave. facility.
> 
>'nuff said.
> 
>Bob Cob Cohen
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