"Remember that girl from the railroad?"
"Erie?"
"Well, she was pretty scary."
pa-da-tump!
"Did you hear about the guy who got run over by a train, and they found a winning lottery ticket in his pocket? Lucky stiff."
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A man was depressed over losing his wife to another man and decided to end it all by laying across the O&W tracks and waited for the train... and waited... and waited... then he died of starvation.
OK not an Erie joke but a goodie nonetheless.
OK not an Erie joke but a goodie nonetheless.
calorosome wrote:A man was depressed over losing his wife to another man and decided to end it all by laying across the O&W tracks and waited for the train... and waited... and waited... then he died of starvation.I call you Killer, 'cause you slay me!
OK not an Erie joke but a goodie nonetheless.
"But Dad. It's Smokey!"
Idiot Railfan wrote:A desparate guy tried to swallow a ruler and he couldn't kill himself by the inch so he went to Gang Mills and died by the yard...calorosome wrote:A man was depressed over losing his wife to another man and decided to end it all by laying across the O&W tracks and waited for the train... and waited... and waited... then he died of starvation.I call you Killer, 'cause you slay me!
OK not an Erie joke but a goodie nonetheless.
Matt Langworthy
"It is highly likely that the 1990s were an overrated decade."
"It is highly likely that the 1990s were an overrated decade."
I don't know if this is one of the Official Erie jokes that were published in the timetables about 1902, but it is on the Internet at:
http://s145079212.onlinehome.us/rr/humor/trainjokes.htm
What railroad couldn't keep their engines shiny?
The Erie!
Huh? Why was that?
It's because of Lackawaxen.
copyright © 2005,2006,2007 by Charlie Comstock
[There was a Mr. Comstock associated with "Railroad" Magazine, which had an article about the Erie Jokes in its 1st issue, back in 1906.]
http://s145079212.onlinehome.us/rr/humor/trainjokes.htm
What railroad couldn't keep their engines shiny?
The Erie!
Huh? Why was that?
It's because of Lackawaxen.
copyright © 2005,2006,2007 by Charlie Comstock
[There was a Mr. Comstock associated with "Railroad" Magazine, which had an article about the Erie Jokes in its 1st issue, back in 1906.]
Another official Erie joke:
There was a commuter who had nothing bad to say about the trains or railroad that he patronized, and it was even alleged that he got home in time for dinner - but he didn't travel on the Erie!
There was a commuter who had nothing bad to say about the trains or railroad that he patronized, and it was even alleged that he got home in time for dinner - but he didn't travel on the Erie!
I volunteer at Steamtown and we have an older guy up there who uses to work for the DL&W /EL/Conrail. He told me that EL stood for Extra Late!
Len.
Len.
Maybe not the exact words, but another of the Official Erie Jokes:
A man comes rushing up to the window at the Consolidated Ticket Agency and breathlessly exclaims, "I've got to get to Buffalo in the worst way". So, the agent sells him a ticket on the Erie!
A man comes rushing up to the window at the Consolidated Ticket Agency and breathlessly exclaims, "I've got to get to Buffalo in the worst way". So, the agent sells him a ticket on the Erie!
Schuylkill Valley. I heard that EL stood for "Erie Lackawampum".
I recall reading in Theodore Scull's book on the Hoboken Terminal that someone on the Erie came up with a lampoon of the Phoebe Snow rhymes touting that road's freedom from cinders, which got around somehow, possibly in an Erie publication:
Said Phoebe Snow in the dining car,
"I did not order caviar."
The waiter dusted off the bread.
"That is not caviar," he said.
Said Phoebe Snow in the dining car,
"I did not order caviar."
The waiter dusted off the bread.
"That is not caviar," he said.