A parade of Heralds!!!

Garden Railroading
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I think this is a good time for us all to display our heralds!

If you don’t have webspace, I’m sure one of us can volunteer to donate some space for a small jpeg of a railroad’s herald.

Here is mine…

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Hey Capt.,
Looks great. Think it’s time I made one up for our line! Later eh…Brian.

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I look forward to seeing it. If you need some space to put in to a webserver…I’ll uplorad it to mine. Try not to make it too big.

Later…eh,

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The logo for the Borracho Springs RR[;)]

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[img=left]http://gold.mylargescale.com/torby/torbys.gif[/img=left]You’ve seen this before[:-,]

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Speaking technically -I do heraldry as a small hobby . What you are looking at is a coat of arms. The Herald is the person drawing the coat of arms.

The Shield is Blue and yellow -the colour of cables for DC of changing polarity. There are two dragon flies with lightening bolts to show the two buzzing bogies of an articulated loco.

The shield is surmounted by a Beast made of a Frog and a Butterfly. This indicates the number of frogs that had to be kissed in order to get it to work and the hope that from this ugly mess some form of beautiful butterfly will emerge. It sniffs a dog rose -symbolising the thorns that were there when I started and the dogged determination that I have that flowers will soon bloom there.

The motto is in English -standing for ‘what is fated to be’ -as in ‘the wierd is upon me’. It also fits the look of the locos and lokeys.

regards

ralph

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I need a designer, I’m artisticly challenged!!! Wife & I are thinking about possibly changing the name of our RR. Were gonna call it the “Rosebud & Western” cause it started at the rose bed and extended West from there! We’ve thought about “BoDi” (pronounced Bo-Dye) for Bob & Dianne. The one we really like is the “Round Tuit” as in “we’ll do it when we get around to it!”.

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You guys have put in some amazing work to come up with your heralds. Way cool. Torby always like yours and today with the pic of the tomb, AWESOME.

Tim

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Thankyou!

Capt Bob if you like I will apply my talents, but I do need information to plan from.

Tim, I am also glad you like Torby’s Coat of Arms…

regards

ralph

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Cappy,

I really like your logo. Mine will probably be along those lines. Some sort of arrangement saying “Winthrop & Deep River RR - the Connecticut river route”.

Walt

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This is the basic idea that will be refined a bit more as things go along like a font change and such.

Later,
Jack

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Bob-

I’m a desinger by trade. I also know of a few others who like to apply ink to paper once in awhile. Let me know if I can help you out.

Chris

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For the J&BRR…

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Very well done! Outstanding and capital!

Let’s keep 'em coming. I’m glad you liked mine Walt…I wanted to keep it simple for design. Now, if only I could find a bloke that could do it in Dry Transfer!

Capt Carrales

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Ahh, now what makes you think that I didn’t mean a “parade of heralds” as a parade persons who have drawn their own. I had to choose my words carefully, in the US the banner of a Railway is often called a herald…and as you have said…a person who participates in the origin of such monikers is also a herald. Thus a double meaning!!

Thanks for the input, do you limit your heraldry to the British Isles and France? Could you find a blazon for Carrales? I think it is something like a capital F surrounded by five stars with a yellow saltire(sp) on a red background. This was told to me by my grandfather…thus I know little about it.

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Capt,
Dry transfers are getting harder to get in the US. You might want to try decals. I’ve been quite pleased with the ones I got from Stan Cedarleaf. I’ve used his on all of my rolling stock, and I’ve been delighted.

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Cabbage & Nalts, thanks for the offers, now all I’ve got to do is get the woman to make up her mind as to which name she likes, probably take a month of sundays to get that answer!

We’ve worked out the color scheme for our paint jobs tho!

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Ralph designed mine for the Asylum Valley Nickel & Dime Railroad. Let’s see if I get all the meanings:

  1. A castle, symbol of home. It has a porticullis, so it’s a safe home–Asylum.
  2. 2 hunting lions, sons. Since they have no manes, they are immature sons, boys. They face the door so they take from the door. They want the trains.
  3. The cross (Saltaire) is Ruby red. It means knight on armored horse… Iron horse.
  4. Silver shield shows nobility and serenity in poverty.
  5. Code flags are 0, 1 and knight templar, a reference to my profession. I’m a computer programer and use Clarion Templates heavily.
  6. Stars indicate money. Gold is self made money. Silver is inherited money. Copper is absense of money. Many stars, much absence of money.
  7. The deer is a male, a buck. It’s standing still. Not a fast buck.
  8. The flower decorations are called “Frets.” That’s what the management does.
  9. The latin motto indicates high birth. My railroad is higher than most, in my 2nd floor apartment.
  10. The latin motto, “Cuprium Advante” translates “copper straight,” or “brass rails.”
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Torby

Very well done, I doubt if those who really do have family crests could explain them as well as you did. Great sense of humor.[:D]

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Wait a minute! I thought a Herald was a Knights young assistant, when did they start doing artwork?

Walt