Railroad Nicknames
Compiled by Christopher D. Coleman
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This list was last updated 3/1/02
| Railroad | Nickname |
|---|---|
| ACELA | AMTRAK Customers Expect Late Arrivals |
| Lancaster, Oxford and Southern | Little, Old and Slow |
| Akron Canton and Youngstown | The Pumpkin Vine |
| Algoma Central | Agony Central |
| Alamony Central | |
| Algoma Central and Hudson's Bay | All Curves Hills and Bumps |
| All curves and High Bumps | |
| American Locmotive Company (ALCO) | Always Leaking Coolant & Oil |
| Amtrak | AmCrash |
| AmTrash | |
| AmWreck | |
| Amcrap | |
| Amquack | |
| Animaltrak | |
| Anthrax | |
| Anthrax | |
| Slamtrack | |
| Animal Krackers | |
| Ann Arbor | An "A" |
| Annie | |
| All Along | |
| Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe | After Tonnage, Safety First |
| All Tonnage and Slow Freight | |
| All Tramps & Son of a guns Free | |
| All Tramps and Soldiers Free | |
| All Tramps Sent Free | |
| Annoying, Tempermental and Stupid Fans | |
| Ashcan, Toiletbowl & Sani-Flush | |
| Ate Tamales and Spat Fire | |
| Ate Tamales and Spit Fire | |
| Chico | |
| Sani Flush | |
| Santa Flush | |
| Suffering Fools | |
| Uncle John | |
| Flashing Rear End Device (a train component) | Freaking Rear End Device |
| Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe | Scuzzy Fe |
| Atlantic Coast Line | Always Cries Loudly |
| Another Crushed Load | |
| Always Comes Late | |
| BPS&D | Big Pieces of Steam and Dieselized |
| Broken Pieces Strewn and Dropped | |
| BWT&S | Bobble, Wobble, Turnover and Stop |
| Baltimore Chesapeake and Atlantic | Black Cinders and Ashes |
| Baltimore and Ohio | Backward and Obsolete |
| Bad Order | |
| Bankrupt and Overdrawn | |
| Beans and Oats | |
| Beans and Onions | |
| Beefstake and Onions | |
| Beefsteak and Onions | |
| Best and Only | |
| Bumpy and Obsolete | |
| The Bum's Own | |
| Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) | Bay Area Reckless Transit |
| Barely Automated Rancid Transit | |
| Beaver, Mead and Englewood | Butter, Milk and Eggs |
| Bellaire, Zanesville and Cincinnati | Bent, Zigzag and Crooked |
| Birmingham and South Eastern | The Bump and Slide Easily |
| Black Mesa and Lake Powell | Big Mess and Lots of Problems |
| Boston and Maine | Bankrupt and Moribund |
| Banks and Money | |
| Bashed & Maimed | |
| Beguiled and Misribule | |
| Blind and Misguided | |
| Broken and Maimed | |
| Broken and missing | |
| Busted & Maimed | |
| Busted & Mined | |
| Busted and Mangled | |
| Bridgton and Saco River | Busted and Still Running |
| Buffalo Southern | Buffalo's Sorry Old Railroad |
| Buffalo Union Carolina | Busted Until Christmas |
| Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh | Bumpy, Rocky, and Peculiar |
| Bums, Robbers and Pickpockets | |
| Burlington Northern | Bad News |
| Bankrupt Northern | |
| Better than Nothing | |
| Big Noodle | |
| Big Northern | |
| Big Nothing | |
| Booze & Narcotics | |
| Burlington Nothing | |
| Bought Nothing | |
| Bound Nowhere | |
| Frisco Northern | |
| Burlington Northern Santa Fe | Bad News Santa Fe |
| BeaNSnifF | |
| Been Nothing So Far | |
| Been Nuthin' Since Frisco! | |
| Believe Nothing Shoot First | |
| Been Nowhere Since Friday | |
| Been Nowhere Since February | |
| Better Not Ship Freight | |
| Better Not Slip or Fall | |
| Big Nasty Stinky Fart | |
| Big New Santa Fe | |
| Big New Super Frisco | |
| Big Nasty Slow Freight | |
| Bigger Name Same Fine Railroad | |
| Binziff | |
| Bob's New Santa Fe | |
| Bought New Santa Fe | |
| Brand New Santa Fe | |
| BuN SnifF | |
| Buns with Nothing, Salt and Fat | |
| Burlington Northern Southern Franchise | |
| But No Santa Fe | |
| Buy Norfolk Southern Fast | |
| Buy Norfolk Southern First | |
| Buy Norfolk Southern and get Fat | |
| Buy Now Sell Fast | |
| Buy Now, Sell Forever | |
| Bye Now Santa Fe | |
| CSX | Can't Stop Xeroxing |
| Carrying Several Xylophones | |
| Charred Sizzled and X-Rayed | |
| Chemical Spill eXperts | |
| Chessie Still eXperimenting | |
| Color Scheme Excitement | |
| Conrail Screwed Xtremely | |
| Conrail's Southern eXtension | |
| Consensual SeX | |
| Crashed, Smashed & eXploded | |
| Creepin' Slow Xpress | |
| Cut Scrap and here's the scissors to do it with | |
| Cut and Scrap Xperts | |
| CalTrain (SF-SH commuter) | CowTrain |
| Canadian National Railroad | Can Not Rush |
| Certainly No Rush | |
| Chicken Noodle | |
| Cost Nothing | |
| Crash National | |
| Currently Negotiating | |
| Candaian Pacific | Calgary Pacific |
| Canadian Pathetic | |
| Canuk Pacific | |
| Cheapee Ragamuffins or rail | |
| Cheapy Rail | |
| Chinese Pacific | |
| Crazy Polak Railway | |
| Sleepy R | |
| Sleepy Rail | |
| Candaian Pacific Rail System | Crappy Pathetic Rail System |
| Crazy People Run this System | |
| Carolina and Northwestern | Can't and Never Will |
| Cedar Rapids and Iowa City | The Vomit Comet |
| Central Oregon and Pacific | Clowns on Railroad Property |
| Chatham, Wallaceburg, and Lake Erie | Come Walking and Leave Early |
| Chesapeake and Ohio | Cheapskate and Ohio |
| Cheapskate and Oreo | |
| Cheesy | |
| Controlling and Overpowering | |
| Broken dishes | |
| Chesapeake and Western | Crooked and Weedy |
| Chicago Great Western | Can Grow Weeds |
| Can't Get Worse | |
| Can't Go West | |
| Chicago Great Weedy | |
| Chicago and Great Weaties | |
| Cinders Grass and Weeds | |
| The Great Wheaty | |
| Chicago Great Nothing | |
| Chicago Transit Authority | Catastrophies, Tragedies, Accidents |
| Chicago's Taken Again | |
| Chicago and Illinios Midland | Cheap and Ill Managed |
| Chicago and North Western | Can Not Win |
| Can't And Never Will Run Right | |
| Cardboard and No Wheels | |
| Cardboard and No Wheels | |
| Carrier to No Where | |
| Chaos and Nothing Works | |
| Cheap and No Wages | |
| Cheap and Nothing Wasted | |
| Cheap and Nothing Wasted | |
| Chicago and NoWhere | |
| Chicago and Norweigens | |
| Coal and No Water | |
| Corroded Nuts Washers | |
| Employee Stoned | |
| Chicago, Bluffton and Cincinnati | Corned Beef and Cabbage |
| Chicago, Burlington and Quincy | Cheap, Broken and Quarantined |
| Cheapest, Best and Quickest | |
| Clearly Busted and Quiet | |
| Crummy, Bumpy and Quick | |
| Charlie Burlington | |
| Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville (Monon) | Crazy Idiots and Lunatics |
| Chicago, Kalamazoo and Saginaw | Cus Kick and Swear |
| Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul and Pacific | C'Mon Stop Praying and Push |
| Cheapest, Meanest and Slowest to Pay | |
| Christ, Mary, St.Paul and Peter | |
| Crushed, Mauled, STampeded, Pushed and Pulled | |
| Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific | Baby Railroad |
| Come Right In & Pee | |
| Conductors Rob Innocent Passengers | |
| Corroded, Rusty, Indigent and Pathetic | |
| Crip or Crippy | |
| Pet Rock | |
| Rockin Eye | |
| Rotten Island | |
| Rusty Iron | |
| The Cry 'n' Pee | |
| The Rot | |
| Wreck Island | |
| Chicago, South Shore and South Bend | South Snore |
| The Vomit Comet | |
| Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton | Charges High and Damn Rough Riding |
| Cheap Help and Damned Poor Management | |
| Cold, Hungry and Dirty | |
| Crashed, Hungry, and Decomposing | |
| Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific | Connections No Object, Tickets Please |
| Cincinnati, Portsmouth and Virginia | Coats, Pants and Vest |
| Clinchfield RR | Can't Run Railroad |
| Cantankerous Rotten Rumguts | |
| Coeur d'Alene Railway and Navigation Co | Chippy Line |
| Colorado and Southern | Cough and Snort |
| Crooked and Slow | |
| Colorado and Wyoming | Carpenter and Walrus |
| Columbus and Greenville | |
| Columbia Newberry and Laurens Railroad | Crooked, Noisy, and Late |
| Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) | Big Blue |
| Can't Run | |
| Canrail | |
| Clownrail | |
| Con Job | |
| ConWreck | |
| Congresssional Rip-off | |
| Connedrail | |
| Corn Rail | |
| Crappy Rap | |
| Criminal Rail | |
| Currently Retired | |
| Q-Blue | |
| The Constipated Railroad Company | |
| The Coolest Railroad | |
| Clinton Rail | |
| Corn Rail | |
| CockRoch | |
| Crystal River and San Juan | Can't Run and Seldom Jumps |
| Dakota Minnesota and Eastern | Derails Most Everytime |
| Desolate, Miserly, and Emancipated | |
| Dilapidated, Mutilated and Explode | |
| Dog Meat Express | |
| Dumb Management Everyday | |
| Dummy | |
| Dakota Southern Railway | Darn Slow Railroad |
| Davenport Rock Island and Northwestern Railway | Dig Right In and Never Weaken |
| Dri Line | |
| Dayton, Greenville and Union City | The Dinky |
| Delaware and Hudson | Delay and Hesitate |
| Delayed and Hungry | |
| Desparate and Hungry | |
| Dying and Hemhoraging | |
| Deleware, Lackawanna and Western | Delay Linger and Wait |
| Desperately Lacking Wampum | |
| Destitute, Lacksadasical and Weary | |
| Lack - O - Money | |
| Delayed, Late and Waiting | |
| The Delay, Linger and Wait Railwait Company | |
| Denver and Rio Grande Western | Dangerous and Rapidly Getting Worse |
| Dirty Ragged and Greasy | |
| Dirty and Ragged and Greasy | |
| Dirty and Rapidly Getting Worst | |
| Real Grimy | |
| Real Grungy | |
| The Grand | |
| Detroit and Mackinaw | Defeated and Mal-treated |
| Defeated and Mistreated | |
| Detroit, Toledo and Ironton | Darn Tired and Independent |
| Dirty I | |
| Deutsche Bahn | Diggin Buggers |
| Dominion Atlantic Railway | Dust and Rust |
| Dubuque and Dakota | Damned Doubtful |
| Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range | Damn Miserable and IrRate |
| Duluth, Misanthropic and Iron Range | |
| Doing More Income Reduced | |
| Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic | Damn Slow Service and Abuse |
| Damned Small Salaries and Abuse | |
| Dead Slow Service and Agony | |
| Dirt, Soot, Smoke, and Ashes | |
| Duluth, Winnepeg, and Pacific | Drink Whiskey and Piddle |
| Drink Whiskey and Puke | |
| Delivered With Pride | |
| Dealing Weed and Pot | |
| East Broad Top | Eat Beans and Toot |
| East Tennessee and Western Carolina Railroad | Eat 'Taters and Wear No Clothes |
| Eat Taters and What Nice Clothes | |
| Exquisite Trains and What Nice Conductors | |
| East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia | Eat Turnips, Vinegar and Greens |
| Edmonton Dunvegan and British Columbia | Ever Dangerous and Badly Constructed |
| Electro-Motive Division (GM) | Easily Maintained Diesels |
| Every Model Different | |
| Elgin Joliet and Eastern | Easy Jobs for Everyone |
| Egypt, Jerusalem and Elsewhere | |
| Erie | Dreary |
| Eerie | |
| Weary | |
| Weary Erie | |
| Erie Lackawanna | Eastern Laxative |
| Erie Lackatraffic | |
| Erie Lackawampum | |
| Ever Late | |
| Leery Erie | |
| Weary Lack-a-money | |
| Florida East Coast | Fecie |
| For Elderly Citizens | |
| Fort Smith and Western | Footsore and Weary |
| Fort Worth and Denver City RR | Fence Wire and Dirt |
| Flat Wheels & Dirty Coaches | |
| Fox River Valley RR | The Fever |
| Frankfort and Kokomo | The Rabbit Track Line |
| Findlay, Fort Wayne and Western | The Tangent Line |
| Frankfort and Kokomo | The Rabbit Track Line (crooked) |
| GateWay Western Railroad | Great Wobbily Wobbily |
| General Electric (Transporation Division) | Generally Elegant |
| Generous Electric (sarcastically) | |
| Genesee and Wyoming | Gee Whiz |
| Georgia Southern and Florida | Go Slow and Flag |
| Georgia Coastal and Piedmont Railroad | Get a Coon and Push |
| Georgia and Florida | God Forgot |
| God Fosaken | |
| Georgia, Florida and Alabama | Gophers, Frogs and Alligators |
| Grand Canyon | Gland Canyon |
| Grand Trunk | Gone Too |
| Grand Funk | |
| Grand Junk | |
| GreaT | |
| Grand Trunk Pacific | Get There Perhaps |
| Grand Trunk Western | Grand Junk |
| Great Northern | Goes Nowhere |
| Going Nowhere | |
| Great Nothing | |
| Great Western Railway | Gas Works Railway |
| Gee Whiz | |
| Go When Ready | |
| God's Wonderful Railway | |
| Gone With Regret | |
| Goods Wagon | |
| Great Way Round | |
| Green Bay and Western | Go Broke and Worthless |
| Grab Your Bags and Walk | |
| Great Bannk and Wachington | |
| Good Beer and Whiskey | |
| Guilford | Goofy |
| Guillotine | |
| Guilford Rail System | Greedy Rail Scrappers |
| Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe | Gone Completely |
| Gritty Cinders and Smokey Fire | |
| Gulf, Mobile and Ohio | Grease, Mud and Oil |
| Gummo | |
| Garlic, Mustard and Onions | |
| Girls, Men and Oldtimers | |
| Goes More Often (relative to the ICG) | |
| Goat's Milk and Onions | |
| Gulf, Texas and Western | Get a Ticket and Wait |
| Get a Ticket and Walk | |
| Hampton and Branchville | Humped and Boggy |
| High Point Thomasville and Denton Railroad | High Priced Ticket and Damn Rough Ride |
| Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington | Halibut Tuna and Whale |
| Hog Tied and Weary | |
| Hoot Toot and Whistle | |
| Hot Tea and Whiskey | |
| Houston and Texas Central | Hell On Texas Contractors (nonpayment to builders) |
| Hoboes and Tin Cans | |
| Hen and Ten Chicks | |
| Houston, East and West Texas | Hell Either Way You Take it |
| Huntingdon and Broad Top | Humpity Bump Thump |
| I&M RailLink | Missing Link |
| Rinky-Dink Link | |
| Illinois Central Gulf | I Can't Go |
| Illinois Central Railroad | I Can't Run Railroads |
| Ignorant Corporation | |
| Ill Cent | |
| Idiotic Chaos | |
| Idiotic Chaos Runs Rampant | |
| Indiana and Ohio | Incomplete and Overextended |
| I&M Rail Link | Indignant Management Real Louses |
| I Might Receive a Living | |
| I M Really Lost | |
| IMagine Real Loads | |
| IMagine R Loads | |
| IMpeded by River Level | |
| IM Ready to Liquidate | |
| Interesting Milwaukee Rock Link | |
| IM Receiving Little | |
| Indiana, Bloomington and Western | I Better Walk |
| International Great Northern | Irishmen Going North |
| Jacksonville Beach and Pablo | Jump Boys and Push |
| Jamestown, Westfield and Northwestern | Jesus Wept and No Wonder |
| Japanesse RR Co. | Junk Rail |
| Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis | Jerusalem, Mexico and Ireland |
| Kansas City Southern | Haywire |
| Keep Cutting Staff | |
| Kome C Small | |
| Kansas City, Clinton and Springfield | The Leaky Roof Line |
| Keokuk Junction Railway | Klunk and Junk |
| Kingston and Pembroke | Kick and Push |
| L,O&S | Little, Old and Slow |
| LMS | Lose 'em, mix 'em and smash 'em |
| Lake Erie and Northern | Late Every Night |
| Lake Erie and Western | Leave 'er and Walk |
| Leave Early and Walk | |
| Lake Shore and Michigan Southern | Large Stations and Miserable Salaries |
| Less Sleep and More Speed | |
| The Ramshorn (windy roadbed) | |
| Lake Superior and Ishpeming | Lazy, Slow and Independent |
| Leavenworth, Kansas and Western | Lazy, Crooked, and Wandering |
| Leave Kansas and Walk | |
| Look, Kuss and Wait | |
| Lehigh Valley | Leaky Valley |
| Like Vomit | |
| Little Value | |
| Lost Venture | |
| The Route of the Leaky Valley | |
| Lehigh and Hudson River | Late and Hungry |
| Lean and Hungry | |
| Live Oak, Perry and Gulf | Lean Over, Push and Grunt |
| Logansport, Crawfordsville and Southwestern | Long Crooked and Shortwinded |
| London and North Eastern Railway | Late and Never Early |
| London and Port Stanley | 'ell of a mess |
| Late and Poor Service | |
| Lean Push and Shove | |
| Liver and Pork Sausage | |
| Lost and Presumed Sunken | |
| Long Island RR | Dashing Dan |
| Least Intelligent Railroad | |
| Long Island Snail Road | |
| Wrong Island | |
| Louisville and Nashville | Ellen N. |
| Late and Never | |
| Long and Narrow | |
| Long and Nasty | |
| Loose Nuts | |
| Loud and Noisy | |
| Louseyville and Nastyville | |
| Lousy and No good | |
| MARC | Mediocre and Rarely Consistent |
| MD&S | Might Damn Slow |
| METRA | Many Evening Trains Running Around |
| MUNI | Muniserable |
| Macon, Dublin and Savannah | Mud, Dirt and Sand |
| Maine Central | Mean Central |
| Manchester, Dorset and Granville | Mud, Dirt and Gravel |
| Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire | Money sunk and lost |
| Mucky Slow and Lazy | |
| Marshall and East Texas RR | Misery and Eternal Torment |
| Maryland and Delaware | Muddy and Dirty |
| Maryland and Pennsylvania | Ma and Pa |
| Misery and Pain | |
| Maryland, Delaware and Virginia Railroad | Many Dirty Visits |
| Mass Central | More Crap |
| Metro North | More Nothing |
| Metropolitan Transportation Authority | Money Thrown Away |
| More Trouble Ahead | |
| Middletown and Hummelstown | Muddletown |
| Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company | Tom Moore Eats Rats and Likes Corn |
| Minneapolis and Saint Loius | Maimed and Still Limping |
| Midnight and Still later | |
| Miserable and Still Limping | |
| Misery and Short Life | |
| Movin' and Still Loosin' | |
| The Louie | |
| Mississippi River and Bonne Terre | Mighty Rough and Bone Tired |
| Missing Rails and Broken Ties | |
| Muddy Rails and Broken Track | |
| Missouri Pacific | Miserable Pacific |
| Miserly and Parsimonious | |
| Misery Pacific | |
| Morons Prevail | |
| The MOP | |
| Missouri and Illinois | Mike and Ike |
| Missouri and North Arkansas | May Never Arrive |
| Missouri-Kansas-Texas | Many Killed and Totched |
| Penn Central - Western Division | |
| Muddy Kinky Track | |
| Missouri and North Arkansas | May Never Arrive |
| Mobile and Ohio | Milk and Onion |
| Monon | Moron |
| Montana Rail Link | Make a Right/Left??!! |
| Merl (Haggard) | |
| Milwaukee Road Lives | |
| Monkeys Running Loose | |
| Montour Railroad | Mighty M |
| Montreal and Southern Counties | Montreal and Sometimes Comes |
| Montrial Sauteux (Montreal Jumpy or Bouncy) | |
| Morris and Essex Division | Methodist and Episcopal (no Sunday operations) |
| Morristown and Erie | Ben Central |
| Ben Central (owner Ben Friedland) | |
| Me and Ernie | |
| Morristown and Everywhere | |
| Nashville and Eastern | Never Ever Runs Right |
| Nebkota Railway | Not Really Interested |
| Nevada County Narrow Gauge RR | Never Come Never Go |
| None Colorado Narrow Gauge | |
| Nevada, California and Oregon | Narrow, Crooked and Ornery |
| New England Central | Never Ending Commotion |
| New Hope and Ivyland Railroad Co. | No Hope and Ivy league |
| No Hope and Poison Ivyland | |
| New Jersey Tranist | Jersey Rancid |
| Jersey Trainset | |
| Jersey Transient | |
| Need Janitors Touch | |
| No Junky Trains | |
| Not Just Trains | |
| Nudge | |
| New Jerky Transit | |
| New Jersey, Indiana and Illinois | New Jerusalem Israel and Ireland |
| New Orleans and Northeastern | No Omelets, No Eggs |
| New York Central | No You Can't |
| Not Yet, Cornelius! | |
| New York City Subway BMT | Buglers, Murders and Thugs |
| New York Ontario and Western | Now Young, Out and Working |
| Old Woman | |
| Old and Weary | |
| Owen W. | |
| New York Susquehana and Western | Now You Sit and Wait |
| Now You Suffer & Wait | |
| Squeak | |
| Suskie | |
| New York and Atlantic Railway | New York Amateur Railroad |
| Not Yet A Railroad | |
| Now You're A Railroad | |
| New York and Lake Erie | Never Yet Left Early |
| New York, Chicago and Saint Louis (Nickle Plate) | Nearly Kompletely Perfect |
| No Known Prototype | |
| New York, New Haven and Hartford | New Years, No Home and Hungry |
| Not Yet No How and Hopeless | |
| Not Yet, No Help, and Helpless | |
| Not Yet, No Hope, and Hopeless | |
| New Year, No Hope and Hungry | |
| New York, Ontario and Western | No Young Overweight Women |
| Not Yet Old and Weary | |
| Now Young Out and Working | |
| Old And Weary | |
| Owen W. | |
| The Old Woman | |
| New York, Susquehanna and Western | New York, Susquehanna and Western |
| The Squeak | |
| Newburgh, Dutchess and Connecticut | Never Did and Couldn't |
| Newfoundland Railway | Goofie Newfie Narrow Gauge |
| Newfie Bullet | |
| Nittany and Bald Eagle | Never Been Early |
| Norfolk Southern | Nazi Squad |
| New Southern | |
| Next Sucker | |
| Nidon't careS | |
| Nix Steam | |
| No Service | |
| No Show | |
| No Steam | |
| No (paint) Scheme | |
| Noone's Safe | |
| Not Sanitary | |
| Not Smart | |
| Nothing Soon | |
| Norfolk and Western | Narrow and Wobbly |
| Needless and Worthless | |
| Never Works | |
| Nickel Plate and Wabash | |
| Nights and Weekends | |
| Norfolken Way | |
| Nothing and Worse | |
| Northern Alberta Railway | Never Any Rush |
| Northern Pacific | No Ports |
| Northern Ports | |
| Northern Potatoes | |
| Not Political | |
| Nothing Personal | |
| Nothing Specific | |
| Northwestern Pacific | Never Without Public Regard |
| Never was prompt | |
| No Where in Particular | |
| OR&W | Old Rusty (or Rickety) and Wobbly |
| Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain | Old and Late Coming |
| Omaha Lincoln and Beatrice | Over Lincoln and Back |
| Oxford Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway | Old Worse and Worse |
| Pacific Great Eastern | Pretty Girls Express |
| Pretty Good Effort | |
| Past God's Endurance | |
| Please Go Easy | |
| Pretty Goddamn Expensive | |
| Prince George Egads | |
| Prince George, Eventually | |
| Province's Greatest Expense | |
| Provincial Government Expense | |
| Paris and Mount Pleasant | Pa and Ma |
| Patapsco and Back River Rairaod | The Push, Bang and wReck RR |
| Penn-Central | Parked Cars |
| Pathetic Connection | |
| Penniless Central | |
| Penn Centless | |
| Perfect Chaos | |
| Political Charade | |
| permenatly currupt | |
| pile [of] crap | |
| Pennsylvania Railroad | Poor Ragged Rascal |
| Pussie Rail Road | |
| The Big Red Subway | |
| The Substandard Railroad of the World | |
| Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie and Boston | Pickles, Pork and Beans |
| Pere Marquette | Poor Marquette |
| Philadelphia, Bethlehem and New England | Poor Brakemen and No Engineers |
| Piedmont and Northern | Po and Needy |
| Pierre, Rapid City and Northwestern | Plenty Rough Country and No Water |
| Pittsburgh and Lake Erie | Pissed off and Left Early |
| The Pianelli | |
| Pittsburgh and West Virginia | The High and Dry |
| Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago | Pigs' Feet Whiskey and Cigars |
| Pittsburgh, Rochester and Buffalo | Pickpockets Robbers and Bums |
| Pittsburgh, Shenango and Lake Erie | Pays Slow and Lives Easy |
| Peasley | |
| Port Arthur, Duluth and Western | Poor and Delinquet Wages |
| Poverty Agony Despair and Wretchedness | |
| Providence and Worcester | Pathetic and Wobbly |
| Quanah, Acme and Pacific | Quit Arguing and Push |
| Quebec Railway, Light, Heat and Power | Chemin de fer do la Bonne Sainte-Anne |
| Reading | Dreading |
| Regional Transportation District (Denver) | Reason To Drive |
| Retarded Transit Drivers | |
| Richmond Fredericksburg and Potomac | Rich Folks and Pedigrees |
| Run Fast and Push | |
| The Doggie Railroad | |
| Rich Folks and Preachers | |
| Rockaway Valley Railroad | Rock-a-bye Baby |
| Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg RR | Rotten Wood and Old Rusty Rails |
| S&D | Serene and Delightful |
| Slow and Dirty | |
| South East Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA) | Regional Half Speed Rail |
| Society for the Elimination of Passenger Trains Altogether | |
| SLOPTA | |
| SEPTIC | |
| INEPTA | |
| Steal Every Penny Thats Available | |
| Steal Every Penny Till Arested | |
| Subject Every Passenger To Aggravation | |
| Systemattically Eleminitating Public Transportation Altoghether | |
| SOO Line | Slow Old Obsolete |
| Sometimes Only Ordinary | |
| Special Olympics Operation | |
| ZOO Line | |
| Saint Lawerence and Hudson | Straight Line to Hell |
| Stupid Little Henry | |
| San Diego and Arizona | Slow, Dirty, and Aggravating |
| Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes | Slow Running and Rather Late |
| Savanah and Atlanta | Slow and Aggravating |
| Seaboard Air Line | Surely Always Late |
| Seaboard Coast Line | Service Customers Lack |
| Seaboard System | Slow Board System |
| Slowly Breaking Down | |
| Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway | Serene and Delightful |
| Soo | Sewer Line |
| Silly Old Ordinary RR | |
| South East and Chatham Railway | Slow Easy and Comfortable |
| Southeast Pennsylvania Transit Authority | Society for Eliminating Passenger Trains in America |
| Society for Eliminating Public Transit Altogether | |
| Southern Pacific | Espee |
| Slow Poke | |
| Smelly Perch | |
| Soot Princess | |
| Sorry and Pathetic | |
| Southern Pathetic | |
| Spare Parts | |
| Stand Proud | |
| Stupid Police | |
| Stupid Pussies | |
| Sufferin' Pathetic | |
| Suffering Pacific | |
| Suffering Painfully | |
| Super Prick | |
| Supreem Procrastinator | |
| Surrendered Peacefully | |
| The Octopus | |
| Southern Pacific Santa Fe (stilborn merger) | Shouldn't Paint So Fast |
| Southern Railroad | Shake Rattle and Roll |
| Southern Railway | Shake Rattle and Roll |
| Spokane, Portland and Seattle | Slow, Pokey and Seldom |
| Spit, Pop and Sputter | |
| Slow, Poor and Stingy | |
| St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain | St Jesus & Late Comin' |
| St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County | Saint Jesus and Late Coming |
| St. Jesus and Late Coming | |
| St. Lawrence and Hudson | Slowly Losing Hope |
| St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico | Brownie |
| Stanley, Merrill and Phillips | Slow Motion and Poverty |
| Staten Island Rapid Transit | The SIRT |
| The Toonerville Trolly | |
| Shall I Run Today? | |
| Stockton Terminal and Eastern | Slow, Tired and Easy |
| Sumpter Valley Railway | Polygamy Central |
| Stump Dodger | |
| Sydney and Louisburg Railway | Slow and Lazy |
| Tallulah Falls Railway | Total Failure |
| Temiskaming and Northern Ontario | Time No Object |
| Terre Haute and Peoria | Take Hold and Push |
| Texas and Pacific | Time and Patience |
| Texas Northeastern Railroad | Trains Never Ever Run |
| Texas Midland | Texas Mudland (lack of ballast) |
| Texas, Pacific and Western | Take Your Parcels and Walk |
| Toledo, Peoria and Western | Take Pity and Walk |
| The Tip-up | |
| Tip Up | |
| Tired Poor and Weary | |
| Toilet Paper and Western | |
| Tired, Poor and Weary | |
| Tried, Proven and Willing | |
| Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo | Thump, Hump and Bump |
| To Hell and Back | |
| Tramps Hobos and Bums | |
| Twin Mountain and Potomac | Two Mules and a Pony |
| Ulster and Delaware | Up and Down |
| Useless and Dangerous | |
| Union Pacific | Ewe Pee |
| The Yellow Borg | |
| Onion Pacific | |
| Ugly Pathetic | |
| Ugly Power | |
| Ulitmate Privy | |
| Un Painted | |
| Un Professional | |
| Unable to Perform | |
| Uncle Pete | |
| Uncompromomising Pricks | |
| Undelivered Perishables | |
| Undelivered Phreight | |
| Under Powered | |
| Under Prepaired for SP | |
| Under Pressure | |
| Unemployment Pending | |
| Unimaginatve Paint | |
| Union Pathetic | |
| Unlimited Parking | |
| Unlimited Power | |
| Unlimited Purchasing | |
| Unrecognizable Performance | |
| Unstopable Power | |
| Uppity Pacific | |
| Uppity Pee | |
| Usually Parked | |
| Usually Prostrate | |
| Utterly Pathetic | |
| Utterly Putrid | |
| You can't spell stUPid without UP | |
| yoU Pee | |
| Union Pacific - (slogan: We Can Handle It) | We _Can't_ Handle It |
| We Can Mangle It | |
| We Can't Manage It | |
| Union Pacific | The Borg |
| VIA Rail | VIA Snail |
| Wabash | Hashball |
| Wabash, Chester and Western | Wobble, Crooked and Wobble |
| Wait Charlie and Walk | |
| Waco, Beaumont, Trinity and Sabine | Wobbly, Bobbly, Turnover and Stop |
| Washington and Waynesburg | Weak and Weary |
| Washington and Old Dominion Railroad | Virginia Creeper |
| Weatherford Mineral Wells and Northwestern | Watermelons, Mineral Water and Nowhere |
| Whiskey, Mineral Water and Nowhere | |
| West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh | Watch Very Carefully and Proceed |
| Western Maryland | Wild Mary |
| Western Pacific | The Wobbly |
| Wasted Property | |
| Wayside Property | |
| Wear Protection | |
| Weed Producers | |
| Wobbly Pacific | |
| Wobbly Pathetic | |
| Worn-out Paint | |
| Wheeling and Lake Erie | Walk and Leave Early |
| Wheelie | |
| We Lie to Everybody | |
| White Pass & Yukon Route | Wait Patiently and You'll Ride |
| Wiscasset Waterville and Farmington | Weak, Weary, and Feeble |
| Wisconsin Central | We Could Wreck |
| We're Cheap | |
| Whiskey Central | |
| Wood Chip Line | |
| Wrecking Crew | |
| Wisconsin and Calumet | Wicket |
| Wisconsin and Southern | Wizzer |
| Wobbly Slow Old and Rusty | |
| Wrightsville and Tennille | Wiggle and Twist |
| Yazoo Delta | Yellow Dog |
| Zittau-Oybin-Jonsdorfer-Eisenbahn (Germany) | Zug Ohne jegliche Eile (train without any hurry) |
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