Story - Humorous Nicknames for Railroads

Compiled by Le Roy Barnett

HUMOROUS NICKNAMES FOR MICHIGAN RAILROADS (Sobriquets, pseudonyms, aliases)

• Amboy, Lansing & Traverse Bay (AL&TB)

  • Awfully Long & Terribly Bumpy

• Cadillac & Lake City (C&LC)

  • Catastrophe & Lost Cause

• Chicago & North Western (C&NW)

  • Cheap & Nothing Wasted

• Chicago, Kalamazoo & Saginaw (CK&S)

  • Cuss, Kick & Swear

• Detroit & Mackinac (D&M)

  • Defeated & Maltreated

• Detroit, Toledo & Ironton (DT&I)

  • Darn Tired & Irksome

  • Down Trodden & Infirm

  • Henry Ford's Railroad

• Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic (DSS&A)

  • Damn Small Salary & Abuse

  • Damn Slow Service & Abuse

  • Dead Slow Service & Agony

  • Delayed, Short-Steamed & Antiquated

  • Damn Slow and Sure Awful

  • Damn Slow, Shabby Affair

• Empire & Southeastern (E&SE)

  • Empire Slow & Easy

  • Empire & Something Else

• Escanaba & Lake Superior (E&LS)

  • Easy, Lazy & Slow

• Grand Rapids & Indiana (GR&I)

  • Go Ragged & Independent

• Lake Shore & Michigan Southern (LS&MS)

  • Long Stops & Muddy Stations

  • Long Suffering & Much Sorrow

  • Large Stations & Miserable Salaries

  • Less Sleep & More Speed

• Lake Superior & Ishpeming (LS&I)

  • Lazy, Slow & Independent

• Pere Marquette (PM)

  • Poor Management

• Pontiac, Oxford & Northern (PO&N)

  • Poor, Old & Neglected

  • Pants, Overalls & Necktie

• Port Huron & Detroit (PH&D)

  • Poor, Hungry & Destitute

  • Intellectual Line (PhD)

• Toledo & Western (T&W)

  • Teeter & Wobble

  • Tired & Weary