Erie jokes

[Erie3319]

"The Erie Railroad has discontinued handling corpses between Jersey City and Buffalo for fear that they will not arrive in time for the resurrection."

Underwood Era timetable entry.

[Idiot Railfan]

"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."

Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week!

[calorosome]

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.

[Idiot Railfan]

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.

I call you Killer, 'cause you slay me!

[Matt Langworthy]

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.

I call you Killer, 'cause you slay me!

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...

[JimBoylan]

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.]

[JimBoylan]

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!

[Schuylkill Valley]

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.

[JimBoylan]

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!

[Schuylkill Valley]

lol lol.
Len.

[JimBoylan]

Schuylkill Valley. I heard that EL stood for "Erie Lackawampum".

[ExCon90]

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.