New and improved nmra.org logo mark 2

[vsmith]

CSX Toledo

There has been a lot said about the new nmra logo that was introduced in Milwaukee this summer.

OK its THAT is official, the NMRA has gone completely insane, I opened the link took one look and did NOT see anything that resembled wheels on a rail until I read that thats what its supposed to be?, maybe if there was something that looked like the archbars, or journal boxes, or something??? But lets face it, it does indeed look like a womens body part.

I always knew that the NMRA was predominently made up of old men, but apparently its a bunch of dirty old men??? Come on guys, what in the universe is going thru their heads?

Someone PLEASE tell me how this logo is going to do ANYTHING to help negate the common held beleive that model RRs are a bunch wierdos who live in their basements, now we get THIS logo that now indicates we have a fixation with certain womens body parts?

This should be a logo for *** cancer research reconstuctive surgury services or something ANYTHING but model RRs. OMG this is nuts

I would NEVER wear logo this on any cap or shirt, simply because I dont want to get slapped in the face.

What the heck was wrong with the old logo? hint:, if aint broke, DONT fix it.

[bnsf80]

  I wasn't sure if I liked it or not. But, as I look at it more it looks good. It is a logo to the lead the NMRA into the future.        PW

[jmbjmb]

RedGrey62

(including the US Air Force that I recently retired from). 

Yep, the Air Force can't keep uniforms, logos, and organizations consistent from one CSAF to another anymore.  I never thought I'd miss SAC -- the REAL Air Force.

[RedGrey62]

New logos and branding are rarely targeted for the existing audience or membership.  In a few years the new logo will be recognized as easily as the BNSF Swoosh , "G" instead of Gatoraide, or any host of others that have changed logos (including the US Air Force that I recently retired from).  People often complained that the NMRA was stagnant and needed to change.  Sometimes making a change such as this can move an organization in a direction they need to go to keep up with the times and changing membership

Ricky

[jmbjmb]

jeffrey-wimberly

 Some people see what they want to see. To me it looks like a wheel on a rail.

 

Which I guess is the heart of the matter.  It didn't look like anything to me.  I had to read the description to see that it was a wheel on a rail.  Asked my 11 year old son what he thought and he didn't make the train connection either.  A logo has to convey a precise message and I don't think the new one does.  If I didn't know what this was, I wouldn't have the first clue that NMRA, oops nmra.org, had anything to do with trains.  I'm not objecting to a fresher logo, but whatever we use, should send a clear message to the public which this one doesn't.

[jeffrey-wimberly]

 Some people see what they want to see. To me it looks like a wheel on a rail.

[grizlump9]

 i think it's just change for the sake of change and makes little or no sense at all.  perhaps there is a hidden agenda in this but does it really matter?  how long before some "special edition" box cars show up with the new logo?  i will withhold further comment less the thought police find me vulgar and insensitive.

grizlump

[gregc]

i think that it is because of these kinds of things that corporations pay big bucks to research the names and images of new products to make sure that they don't have a negative connotation in some language/country.

[CSX Toledo]

There has been a lot said about the new nmra logo that was introduced in Milwaukee this summer. The old logo was clearly identifiable as something railroad(a coupler over a steam loco driver). While I do not have a problem with developing a new more modern logo, I do not think this new logo has the same clear association to railroading the old had. People who are not in the hobby do not associate the new logo with railroads.  My wife first suggested the  logo looks more like a female body part than something railroad. As a joke last night I photo-shopped the logo taking the left side of the image, inverting it and attaching it to the right side of the logo.  The post said nothing about what it represented other than a modification of the logo. I left it to the reader to us their imagination and what do you know, someone complained to the moderator claiming it was adult material. I received the following from the moderator. Your post was deleted.

Subject: New and Improved nmra.org logo mark 2

Reason:
Deleted the thread that had made the NMRA logo anatomically correct (?) Let's keep it clean please  This just reinforces what I have been saying. The NMRA needs to go back to the drawing board. We need a logo that is associated with railroading and is identifiable.  Since somebody has no sense of humor. Here is a link to the "improved" logo off the list.  http://s949.photobucket.com/albums/ad335/CSX_Toledo/?action=view&current=NMRAx2.jpg