My Railroad Symbol that best sticks out it would have to be CP UP NS
CP-Beaver and the 2 Flags with my 2 favorite countrys which i support and respect
UP Flag very very patriotic and thats coming from a Canadian
NS the mighty thorobred
Most people think thank 9/11/01 made America weaker if u ask me i think it made them stronger along with other Countries hey Middle east watch ur back[:D]
the symbols of the Railroad are many…but I would say flags are a wonderful touch.
I’ve always liked the South Australian Railways “Piping Shrike”. This is a black and white bird, basically a Magpie, with its wings spread in a display. It fits neatly into a circular raised casting, black (and white) on a yellow background, and it sat on the nose of all their locomotives, cab or hood type! It was the State badge, but not overused like so many national flags seem to be!
Peter
Peter, it’s sure better than a Hairy Nosed Wombat…
Hey, Wombats are nice things, as long as you don’t get in their way!
A Wombat would be a good badge for a city underground railway!
(For those completely lost here, a Wombat is a large burrowing animal, a bit like a mole but the size of a small to medium dog)
My answer was based on the thread criteria, being a memorable symbol! I wonder who got all the “Piping Shrikes”. They were all removed with the Australian National merger in about 1978. They were about 15" diameter, and cast, so they weren’t light. The preserved locomotives of Steamranger and at the National Railway Museum in Port Adelaide still have them.
Peter
Ok. Fallen Flags here:
Chessie, the cat sillowette creating the “C” for Chessie on teh orange and yellow paint
B&O logo. the Capitol dome, just look at the eligance of the logo on a freshly painted E or on the streamlined P7 pacifics. That was classy.
the gonrail logo…opps…i mean conrail
csx engineer
Union Pacific, Pennsylvania Railroad, and Chessie System
I liked the Lehigh and New England “fried egg” logo. Also the Jersey Central Statue of Liberty logo was nice too.
…This depends where one originates from…In my mind it’s the B&O with the Capitol Dome and the Pennsylvania RR’s Keystone containing PRR inside it…
The CNW’s ball and bar logo and the Chessie System kitten logo,though there are many that do run wild in my mind as well.By far though. I think the Santa Fe would be the most popular,as the “Santa” part is associated with Christmas[:D] (Santa Claus). At least I beleive so.
The old Seaboard Air Line emblem, with “Thru the Heart of the South”. Or, the old Florida East Coast logo with the palm trees; when seen on a yellow-and-red locomotive, it just screamed Florida.
Santa Fe Cross and Warbonnet
CN “wet noodle” scheme and “zebra stripes’” too.
Also BN, Santa Fe, Ontario Northland (chevrons), and CP Rail with the triangle.
Has to be the chessie kitty.one of the few good cats I know besides mookie.
stay safe
Joe
Next Load, Any road!
Anybody remember: RAILBOX during the 70s and early 80s?
THOSE THINGS WERE E V E R Y W H E R E !!! Now of course, just like the old cowl units, they’re virtually gone.
The colors & logo should be “permanently etched” in the memories of you railfans over the age of 35!
The Rock Island medalion or the big R on the blue and white units. Long live The Rock!!!
Railbox rules!
railbox? just about gone? hardly!!! they are still eveywhere… and its just not railbox…thier is railgon too… in fact not to long ago…the train i was running had a block of brand new railbox boxcars… about 20 of them… and the next night thier was another block on the same train of brand new ones…
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Guilford’s “G”, MEC’s “Pine Tree” ,and Amtrak’s “Pointless Arrow”.