BlueLine, I used to answer the phone, "Rapid Transit, Holmes speaking." during my years in the Forgotten Boro. My fellow employees decided that should be my one socially acceptable nickname (as opposed to the others) and it gave them yet another fully justified humor opportunity at my expense.
Somehow the NYCTA upper management decided that "Locomotive Engineer" was sexist but couldn't explain why. The only explanations I could come up with were that the title was ennobling rather than degrading, relative to the title of "Motorman", or that they were driven by mental illness. They tried mightily to change the title but we held fast.
