Railroad nicknames origins and such

Thu Sep 6 12:38:24 EDT 2018

During engineer school I was taught BNSF stands for Better Not Set Fifteen. 
Setting fifteen pounds of air (or more) at once without coming to a stop is considered poor train handling and will trigger an automatic download of the locomotive telemetry recorded during the trip. So any other mistake you've made during the trip will be caught. 
Another one heard in Tulsa: Been Nothin' Since Frisco.
For CSX I was always fond of ChickenS*** eXpress, but my brother turned me onto Crash Spill eXplode, which has a certain ring to it.

Ryan Harris

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Date: 9/5/18  22:46  (GMT-06:00) 
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Subject: Re: Railroad nicknames origins and such 

BNSF-Better Not Start a Family, Buffets New Santa Fe, Big New Santa Fe. Also Uncle Warren to us BNSF employeesUP-Uncle Pete, Utterly Pathetic, Universal Puke, StUPidCSX-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

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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Subject: Re: Railroad nicknames origins and such

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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