Re: [CBQ] Railroad nicknames

["John D. Mitchell, Jr." <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>]

Here in coal country, we had all of the Eastern European names. The Czechs all had names that needed letters and the Poles all had letters in their names that they didn't need! It was always fun on the first day of school to hear a new out of town teacher try to call roll. We were the only Irish family in town so everybody could pronounce our name.
John
--- On Tue, 1/15/13, Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com <Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com> wrote:

From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com <Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Railroad nicknames
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 11:03 PM

 

The Czech language had a dearth of vowels which always fascinated me...My wife, being of that same heritage had folks in her home town with sir names like..Vrb, Trz, Srb, Brt etc. and given names like  Aloysius, Alois, Bohumel,  Vaclav (James),  Valarian (Tom).

 

Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: John D. Mitchell, Jr. <cbqrr47@yahoo.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, Jan 15, 2013 9:41 pm
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Railroad nicknames

 

Golly, Charlie, you don't have enough letters in your name and your father-in-law has too many! I'm just kidding you, of course.
John
--- On Tue, 1/15/13, Charlie Vlk <cvlk@comcast.net> wrote:

From: Charlie Vlk <cvlk@comcast.net>
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Railroad nicknames
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 6:23 PM

 

Steve-

Since my father-in-law worked as a clerk (my wife says “bookkeeper”) in the Cicero Office…….did you know Aloysius Grodek?   He would have been working there c.1970. 

Charlie Vlk

 

 

 

John and Pete
Those are some neat nicknames BUT I would not reveal who the "Shadow" or "Cupcake" are to say nothing of "Miss Piggy" or "Gramps"  we also had a "Poopsy" in the Cicero Office had once been a trainmaster
Steve in SC

 

 

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