Can You Match The Slogan To It's Railroad?

Come to think of it, why not open this up to famous model slogans on a Model Railroader forum?

The Turtle Creek logo was notable for the play on words: not just presumably fast, but debonair: I recall the logo looking something like a chelonian Mr. Peanut. That was CERTAINLY not a double entendre for the LIRR’s Dashing Dan, who was anything but a sartorial fashion plate even before he started to catch his train…

Second section of slogans seen on railroad equipment. Identify the railroads:

  1. Linking 13 Great States with the Nation

  2. Direct Route Linking East-North-West

  3. Port St. Joe

  4. Serving Southern Forests

  5. The Champagne Trail

  6. Serves the Steel Centers

  7. Better by a Dam Site

  8. Trees Are America’s Renewable Resource

  9. Southwide

  10. Route of the Challengers

  11. Lake Huron Shore Line

  12. Route Superior Gateway for Superior Service

  13. Speedway to America’s Playground

  14. To and From Dixieland

  15. Serving the Heart of America

  16. Rides Like A Feather

  17. The Right Way

  18. The Carolina Route

Which railroads are still in service and, which no longer operate? What was the fate of the fallen flags?

  1. Appalachicola Northern

  2. Bath & Hammonsport

  3. Chattahoochee Industrial

  4. Western Pacific

  5. Central of Georgia

To move this along a bit: (1) is B&O, and there is a picture logo that goes with. B&O became a decided junior partner in Chessie System and of course now CSX.

(10) would be Union Pacific – a bit of a play on words as they had both passenger trains and famous locomotives with the Challenger name.

(16) is Western Pacific, which I think was rolled into the Rio Grande in the Anspach years, thence to SP and after 1996 UP.

I have several B&O cars, but none with the slogan…

That’d be the P&LE, although my boxcar pre-dates the slogan…

That’s the Duluth South Shore & Atlantic, as on this boxcar…

That would be the Florida East Coast, an example of which I don’t have, with or without the slogan.

…is for the Nashville Chatanooga & St. Louis…I was sure that I had a model of it with the slogan, but it’s possible that I have the lettering, and have not yet built the model. [banghead][:-^]

…is a Wabash slogan. I did have some with the slogan but sold them when I backdated my layout’s era. None of my current Wabash cars have the slogan.

Wayne, The “Linking 13 Great States With The Nation” was seen in the early Capitol dome emblem on locomotives, cabooses and some boxcars.

Sadly, this emblem was replaced with a simple capitol dome in a plain circle.

There was a short lived “sun burst” circle with capitol emblem on new GP30s, few E and F units and one older Geep. The Sunburst emblem was replaced with B&O’s standard circle with capitol dome embem.

Yeah, I seem to recall owning a boxcar (perhaps Athearn) that included that slogan.

I was sure that I had a couple photos of a GP30 with the sunburst on the front of the hood, but my photobucket album doesn’t currently show them. This would likely have been in the late '70s or early '80s, and oddly enough, in my hometown of Hamilton, Ontario, at the loco servicing area on Chatham St.

A few minutes ago, there was one photo available with the Capitol Dome herald on the front, but when I went back to get it to post here, it was no longer available.

If folks thought the old photobucket to be screwed-up, I’d suggest not looking at the most recent version. When I stop posting photos here, you’ll understand why.

Wayne

Here’s one example of the “13 States” emblem:

BnO_I-13_C1819b by Edmund, on Flickr

Cheers, Ed