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Railroad Naming Challenge Entry Thread - ngauger - 02-14-2015
This thread is for challenge entries only! Please open another thread to comment on entries.
Re: Railroad Naming Challenge Entry Thread - AF350 - 02-15-2015
AF350's Entry 1. Erie Lackawanna ---> now is ELF (Erie Lines Freight)
Tag line= "Moving freight like magic"
Re: Railroad Naming Challenge Entry Thread - AF350 - 02-15-2015
AF350 entry number 2. Chessie ----> is now the "Cheesy system"
Tag line "Our cut rate freight service helps spread the wealth."
Re: Railroad Naming Challenge Entry Thread - MasonJar - 02-15-2015
The real Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound became my semi-fictional Ottawa, Algonquin and Georgian Bay. I don't know if the original had a tag line, but the OA&GB might be "Direct to the Nation's Capital". Before the St Lawrence Seaway was built, transshiping grain from the West at Depot Harbour and then taking it by rail to Montreal (via Ottawa/ eastern Ontario) was the fastest way to the European markets.
Andrew
Re: Railroad Naming Challenge Entry Thread - Ralph - 02-16-2015
Penn Central "Pain Central": "Breaking the Hearts of New York Central and Pennsy Fans Daily!"
Re: Railroad Naming Challenge Entry Thread - eightyeightfan1 - 02-16-2015
New York, New Haven and Hartford(New Haven) changed to "Northeast Alantic Railroad".
Tag line: Serving All of New England
Historical note: At one time or another, the New Haven had their hands in most of the railroads that ran in New England, either as majority stockholder or down right ownership.
Except the Central Vermont.
Re: Railroad Naming Challenge Entry Thread - Mike Kieran - 02-16-2015
I was actually toying with the idea of the New York, Susquehanna, & Western (NYSW) merging with the New York, Ontario, & Western (NYOW, OW) and the Lehigh & New England (LNE) to form the New York, Susquehanna, & Ontario (NYSO) and connecting with each other through the acquisition of the Middletown & New Jersey.
They would later merge with the New Haven to form the Atlantic Lines with whom I would like for my Penvan Railroad and Port Able Railway to interchange with as well as Ralph's Kings Port & Western/Penn Central.
Re: Railroad Naming Challenge Entry Thread - BR60103 - 02-16-2015
Mike Kieran Wrote:I was actually toying with the idea of the New York, Susquehanna, & Western (NYSW) merging with the New York, Ontario, & Western (NYOW, OW) and the Lehigh & New England (LNE) to form the New York, Susquehanna, & Ontario (NYSO) and connecting with each other through the acquisition of the Middletown & New Jersey.
They would later merge with the New Haven to form the Atlantic Lines with whom I would like for my Penvan Railroad and Port Able Railway to interchange with as well as Ralph's Kings Port & Western/Penn Central.
Couldn't you just call it the New Railroad?
all right, nurse, I'll come quietly.
Re: Railroad Naming Challenge Entry Thread - Mike Kieran - 02-17-2015
BR60103 Wrote:Mike Kieran Wrote:I was actually toying with the idea of the New York, Susquehanna, & Western (NYSW) merging with the New York, Ontario, & Western (NYOW, OW) and the Lehigh & New England (LNE) to form the New York, Susquehanna, & Ontario (NYSO) and connecting with each other through the acquisition of the Middletown & New Jersey.
They would later merge with the New Haven to form the Atlantic Lines with whom I would like for my Penvan Railroad and Port Able Railway to interchange with as well as Ralph's Kings Port & Western/Penn Central.
Couldn't you just call it the New Railroad?
all right, nurse, I'll come quietly.
New England & Western
Re: Railroad Naming Challenge Entry Thread - ezdays - 03-15-2015
It's been a while since someone posted a new name here so, just to get things going again:
If I had founded what is now the Canadian Pacific RR, I'd have called it the Canuck Atlantic RR
Oh, the tag line just might be: "EH, we're on our way"
Re: Railroad Naming Challenge Entry Thread - MasonJar - 03-16-2015
ezdays Wrote:It's been a while since someone posted a new name here so, just to get things going again:
If I had founded what is now the Canadian Pacific RR, I'd have called it the Canuck Atlantic RR
Oh, the tag line just might be: "EH, we're on our way"
In addition to the namesake for my fictional road, JR Booth also owned the Canada Atlantic. This being Canada though, it's a railway (ry.) not a RR.
Andrew
Re: Railroad Naming Challenge Entry Thread - Mike Kieran - 03-17-2015
How about my second entry. In light of Pan Am Railways/Guilford Transportation's ever present legal battles, I was thinking of Scam Am Railways.
Re: Railroad Naming Challenge Entry Thread - ngauger - 03-20-2015
I guess I'll add in one for me too:
Norfolk Southern: We do for freight, what Pennsy did for people..
Re: Railroad Naming Challenge Entry Thread - Tyson Rayles - 03-21-2015
That should be NS does for freight what the Pennsy SHOULD have done for people, then maybe the Pennsy wouldn't have gone belly up.
Re: Railroad Naming Challenge Entry Thread - Brakie - 05-17-2015
NYC = New York & Chicago RR. To and from Chicago's Rail Gateway.
Lakeside & Marblehead = Lakeside RR. " The Stone Hauler".