Dan_Bower%RPI-MTS.Mailnet@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA (12/18/85)
(Or is that No Hope and Insolvent?) Anyhow, the owners are the McHugh <sp?> brothers, not "McClure Brothers". BTW, anyone have any other sarcastic meanings for railroad initials? A few more are LEF&C (Lake Erie, Franklin and Clarion) = Let's Eat Faster & Choke WP&YRy (White Pass & Yukon) = Wait Patiently and You'll Ride D&H (Delaware & Hudson) = Downtrodden and Heartbroken BM&LP (Black Mesa & Lake Powell) = Big Mess and Lotsa Problems
Burton.osbunorth@Xerox.ARPA (12/19/85)
More on RR (and transit system) acroynyms:
NY, NH, & H RR - New York, New Haven, and Hartford RR.
No Yuse, No Hope and Helpless RR
NYCRR - New York Central RR
No You Can't RR (how the old 'Central treated railfans)
DL&W - Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western-
Delay, Linger, and Wait
NW, O &W - New York, Ontario and Western RR
Old Woman
Erie Railroaad
Eerie Railroad
MTA - Boston's Metropolitan Transit Authority
Metropolitan Transit, Antiquated
BMT - Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Co. (now part of the New York City
subway system)
Bats, Mice, and Toads
IRT - Interborough Rapid Transit Co. (now part of the New York City
subway system)
Incredibly Rotten Transit
CC line of the IND, part of the New York City subway system
Concourse Creeper
GG line of the IND, part of the New York City subway system
Greenpoint Galavanter
No doubt there are more.
When I was in high school, my railfan friends and I would collect these
names, making up a few of our own, especially for the New York subways.
We also composed a song, "Scrapping Canarsie," (BMT Canarsie line, now
called LL), to the tune of "Waltzing Matilda."
Those were the days.
Phil Burton,
Xerox Corporation
415 496 6514
Intelnet 8*922-6514cb@hlwpc.UUCP (Carl Blesch) (12/23/85)
> BTW, anyone have any other sarcastic meanings for railroad initials?
Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic (DSS&A): Damned Slow Service and Abuse
(an old Upper Michigan Railroad)
Carl Bleschfriedman@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU (12/24/85)
Burton.osbunorth@Xerox.ARPA suggests some "interesting" RR acroynyms.
Here in central Illinois, there was a line built about 1870 called the
Indianapolis Bloomington and Western (Bloomington, IL). Local wags in
the 1870s and 1880s were said to have renamed it the
I Better Walk.
(The line is now a part of Conrail.)
H. George Friedman, Jr.
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1304 West Springfield Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61801
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