Naming trains?

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I read in a Tony Koester book that the term "Hog Law" came from the law concerning how long livestock could be held in stock cars without stopping for food and exercise.

I feel sorry for train-crews back in the days of steam, I would most definitely feel like a hog if I was stuck in a hot steam engine on a long run.

Very true. Not sure how the term got changed from Hog to Dog, but then what's true for one railroad isn't always true for another. On NS around here, I hear them say that a crew short on time is "Running from the Law" or "The Law's after them".

Speaking of steam locomotives and their crews, on the Southern Railway "Rat Hole Division" (the line I'm close to), engineers and firemen on their steam locomotives wore special hoods that resembled asbestos fire suit hoods to try and keep them from being chocked by the smoke in the numerous tunnels that once existed on the line (hence the name Rat Hole). Most of the tunnels were daylighted back in the 60's.

Here's a photo that I located:    

Didn't mean to hijack the thread