Railroad nicknames origins and such

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BNSF-Better Not Start a Family, Buffets New Santa Fe, Big New Santa Fe.
Also Uncle Warren to us BNSF employees
UP-Uncle Pete, Utterly Pathetic, Universal Puke, StUPid
CSX-Chemical Spill eXperts

73,
Nathan Simmons

On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 17:31 NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> 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
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> Milw Rd. - America's Resource-less
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> Soo Line - Sewage
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> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On 9/5/2018 1:42 AM, NW Mailing List wrote:
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> > 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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01/20/2017
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