NW-Mailing-List Digest, Vol 164, Issue 18

Sat Sep 8 13:49:49 EDT 2018

M&StL: Midnight and Still Lost!

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Today's Topics:

   1. Nicknames rules (NW Mailing List)
   2. Re: Railroad nicknames origins and such (NW Mailing List)
   3. WHO WERE THEY ?   - #40 -   Raymond DuPuy - VGN (NW Mailing List)
   4. Re: Nicknames rules (NW Mailing List)
   5. Re: WHO WERE THEY ?   - #40 -   Raymond DuPuy - VGN
      (NW Mailing List)

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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 16:41:52 -0400
From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
To: nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org
Subject: Nicknames rules
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Gentlemen, gentlemen, and maybe I use that term a little loosely here, we
seem to be getting a b it away from the "rules" for nicknames - has to be
using either directly or phonetically the initials of the railroad. To try
to come up with the names used for specific routes and so forth, like the
Creeper, would thoroughly clutter the list endlessly.

The could also go for various classes of locomotives. Some far more
colorful than others; others well known of course.

As it is, a number of you have come up with a few I did not previously have
and for those I thank you. I was not going to use the CSX one which Jimmy
and a few others have repeated here but you left out the last word from
CSXT "Terrorize."

While it may not strictly N&W/VGN, these are colorful and all part of the
rich railroad past we all dearly love and enjoy various and varying parts
of. So thank you one and all and let's enjoy our hobby, now from our
armchairs.

Bob Cohen
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Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 19:03:57 -0400
From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
To: "NW Mailing List" <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
Subject: Re: Railroad nicknames origins and such
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NW ? Not Welded

Bud Jeffries

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Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2018 11:22 PM
To: NW Mailing List 
Subject: Re: Railroad nicknames origins and such

Minneapolis and St. Louis = Misery and Short Life

and the Southern Serves the South like a bull serves a cow . . .

EdKing

From: NW Mailing List 
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2018 4:59 PM
To: 'NW Mailing List' 
Subject: RE: Railroad nicknames origins and such

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

Stephen Rineair

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Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 2:29 PM
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Subject: Re: Railroad nicknames origins and such

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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From: NW Mailing List 
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2018 7:59 AM 
To: NW Mailing List 
Subject: Re: Railroad nicknames origins and such 

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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Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 11:22:51 -0400 (EDT)
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Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 15:05:29 +0000
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Subject: Re: Nicknames rules
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Just for the sake of clarity, the Virginia Creeper nickname was from the Virginia Carolina railway, and not just the name of a route of the N&W.  It was called that prior to becoming the Abingdon Branch of the N&W.

Brent
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Sent: Friday, September 7, 2018 4:41:52 PM
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Subject: Nicknames rules

Gentlemen, gentlemen, and maybe I use that term a little loosely here, we seem to be getting a b it away from the "rules" for nicknames - has to be using either directly or phonetically the initials of the railroad. To try to come up with the names used for specific routes and so forth, like the Creeper, would thoroughly clutter the list endlessly.

The could also go for various classes of locomotives. Some far more colorful than others; others well known of course.

As it is, a number of you have come up with a few I did not previously have and for those I thank you. I was not going to use the CSX one which Jimmy and a few others have repeated here but you left out the last word from CSXT "Terrorize."

While it may not strictly N&W/VGN, these are colorful and all part of the rich railroad past we all dearly love and enjoy various and varying parts of. So thank you one and all and let's enjoy our hobby, now from our armchairs.

Bob Cohen
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 13:41:04 -0400
From: NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
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Subject: Re: WHO WERE THEY ?   - #40 -   Raymond DuPuy - VGN
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SGT Grass

Water boy in 1877, followed by assistant engineer in 1878 ??  I fail to comprehend this meteoric rise in position.   Can the master turnip harvester explain, please. 

Jim Stapleton
Raised on a VT dairy farm (no turnips)

> On Sep 8, 2018, at 11:22, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
> 
> Du PUY, RAYMOND, Vice-President and General Manager Virginian Ry. in 1913.  Office: Norfolk, Va.  Born 1860 at Pittsburgh, Pa.  Educated at Georgetown University. Entered railroad service 1877 as water boy Missouri Kansas & Texas Ry, since which he has been consecutively 1878 to 1881, assistant engineer same road and Missouri Pacific Ry; 1881 to 1885, chief engineer and superintendent Tioga Ry (branch of New York Lake Erie & Western Rd); 1885 to 1887, general superintendent Minnesota & Northwestern Ry; 1887 to Feb. 1, 1888, general manager Chicago St. Paul & Kansas City Ry;  1891, president Leavenworth & St. Joseph Ry; 1895 to 1896, president DeKalb & Great Western Ry;  April 15,1898, to July 1, 1899, general superintendent Chicago Great Western Ry; July 1, 1899, to May 1, 1900, superintendent Morris & Essex division Delaware Lackawanna & Western Rd; May 1900 to April 15, 1905, general manager St. Joseph & Grand 1sland Ry at St. Joseph, Mo.; April 15, 1905, to April 15, 1907, gener
 al manager Tidewater and Deepwater Rys at Norfolk, Va.; April 15, 1907, to date, vice-president and general manager Virginian Ry.
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> - abram burnett,
> 
> sergeant of the grass mowing platoon
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