What was the nickname used to describe a freight train back in the Twenties
that contained the word "iron"..................?

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Request for Question Clarification by rainbow-ga on 18 Sep 2006 03:11 PDT

Could you be thinking of "iron horse"?

Tracking Milestones of the Iron Horse 
"Of all the inventions that propelled the Industrial Revolution, none
epitomizes it so well as the railroad. In the United States, the iron
horse, with its mournful wail, brought evidence of the revolution to
places where it was scarcely more than a rumor..."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E7D91339F934A35757C0A960958260&sec=&pagewanted=print

iron horse
n. Informal.
A railroad locomotive.
http://www.answers.com/iron+horse&r=67

Please let me know if this is what you are looking for so I can post
it as an answer.

Best regards,
Rainbow

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Request for Question Clarification by tutuzdad-ga on 18 Sep 2006 05:48 PDT

Beginning in the 1890's the Great Northern locomotives that climbed
the mountainous rail line in the Rockies and Cascade mountains were
known as the "Iron Goats". Could this be the nickname you are after?

IRON GOAT NETWORKS
http://www.irongoat.net/aboutus/whyirongoat.php

Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific locomotives were once known as "Rusty Iron"

Duluth and Missabe locomotives were known as "Iron Range"

RAILROAD NICKNAMES
http://www.spikesys.com/Trains/nickname.html

Do one of these serve as an answer?

tutuzdad-ga