Railroad nicknames origins and such

Wed Sep 5 16:59:30 EDT 2018

For years I have always known L&N as - Lost and neglected

Stephen Rineair

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Some of the ones I have heard over the years.

Conrail - Corn-rail

CSX - Crash, Smash & eXplode; Commodity Spilling eXperts, Chicken (or Cat)
Sh.. eXpress

BNSF - Buy Norfolk Southern Fast, Buy Norfolk Southern Fast, Big Nothing
Super Flush 

BN -Big Nothin', Green Weenies

CP - Caribou Poo, Caribou Pi$$

L&N - Long & Nasty

C&NW - Cheap, & Northing Wasted

Milw Rd. - America's Resource-less

Soo Line - Sewage

UP - Unlimited Parking, Useless P (anatomical part), the Borg, 

Regards,
Russ Goodwin

Oakwood, GA

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And the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific was the Come right in and P***

EdKing

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On 9/5/2018 1:42 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:

> And this one should be on everyone's lips:
>
> CSX - Crash, Smash and eXplode 

How true, that happens often enough!

Jimmy Lisle
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