Murphy SidingThanks. I had the same question. Now tell me where a drumhead fits into this picture?
They fit in beautifully!
The drumheads I see on Google employ both logos and heralds:
Passenger train drumheads
Actually the NKP lettering on the loco tender is called a "logotype", like the flying "Rio Grande" logo (est 1941)
Gramp NKP guy 3. One of the best train rides in my life on the Ontario Northland RR took me right through the metropolis of Swastika in northern Ontario. A vote on retaining its name during the war resulted in the residents deciding to keep it; after all, they reasoned, the town had it first! To hell with Hitler! The city of Berlin, WI changed the syllable to be emphasized in its name because of the wars with Germany from berLIN to BERlin. It's been BERlin ever since.
NKP guy 3. One of the best train rides in my life on the Ontario Northland RR took me right through the metropolis of Swastika in northern Ontario. A vote on retaining its name during the war resulted in the residents deciding to keep it; after all, they reasoned, the town had it first! To hell with Hitler!
3. One of the best train rides in my life on the Ontario Northland RR took me right through the metropolis of Swastika in northern Ontario. A vote on retaining its name during the war resulted in the residents deciding to keep it; after all, they reasoned, the town had it first! To hell with Hitler!
The city of Berlin, WI changed the syllable to be emphasized in its name because of the wars with Germany from berLIN to BERlin. It's been BERlin ever since.
The city of Berlin, Ontario changed its name to Kitchener in 1916 for the same reason.
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Flintlock76 charlie hebdo some Luftstreitkräfte aircraft used it during the war. Right, there was a German ace, a member of the Red Baron's "Flying Circus" who's name escapes me at the moment who used it as a personal marking. This was before the Freikorps was established and certainly before the Nazis. "Swastika" comes from the Sanskrit, translated it means "good luck," and it was used by quite a few people as a good luck symbol. I'd assume that's why that German pilot put it on his plane. Ironically, Fritz Beckhardt had his plane painted with one facing backwards. He was Jewish and flew in Jasta 26 with Hermann Göring with 17 confirmed kills. .
charlie hebdo some Luftstreitkräfte aircraft used it during the war.
Right, there was a German ace, a member of the Red Baron's "Flying Circus" who's name escapes me at the moment who used it as a personal marking. This was before the Freikorps was established and certainly before the Nazis.
"Swastika" comes from the Sanskrit, translated it means "good luck," and it was used by quite a few people as a good luck symbol. I'd assume that's why that German pilot put it on his plane. Ironically, Fritz Beckhardt had his plane painted with one facing backwards. He was Jewish and flew in Jasta 26 with Hermann Göring with 17 confirmed kills.
In German it is called a Hakenkreuz, meaning literally a hooked cross.
azrail Actually the NKP lettering on the loco tender is called a "logotype", like the flying "Rio Grande" logo (est 1941)
Just like the New York Central's use of the font "Grand Central." Not sure if that's what they called it, but if you want to find it, that's the name to look it up with. I bought it and have it available on my computers.
Many railroads kept it simple, with a mostly generic Roman or Sans font.
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azrailActually the NKP lettering on the loco tender is called a "logotype", like the flying "Rio Grande" logo (est 1941)
Exactly so. I happily stand corrected.
Since the topic has also begun to include favorites ...
When I was a kid, my great uncle worked in the Northern Pacific shops in Tacoma, WA. He sent us calendars, pictures, etc., all with the Yin Yang design. That's when it became my favorite.
Today, it doesn't seem like anything I would like, but back then, I loved seeing a train come by that had a boxcar with the NP logo.
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In Northern Ontario is a town called Swastika. You can find it on a map. The town fathers were under pressure to change the name so they put billboards up at the train station-(still served by the ONR but freight only) that read- "The hell with Hitler, we had the name before he did."
In the old CPR station on Yonge St in Summerhill which is now a liquor store, there is a swastika motif in the edges of the canopies outdoors. They all kind of intermesh with one another but there they are. There is also a bank on Queen St West that has the same kind of interwoven swastikas but on the outside of the building itself.
I just watched the Buster Keaton film, "Go West" and in several scenes where he is involve with an indian tribe, he wraps himself in a blanket with swastikas on it.
I inspected the boiler in an old Pontiac dealer in Port Jervis, New York many years ago and cast into the front of it was a swastika. Burnham was the make of the boiler and they are still in business.
There was a car called the "Krit" from about 1912, made by a man named Krittenden. It's radiator badge was a swastika.
My point is, swastikas were fairly common before you-know-who.
I don't care for the current Amtrak logo - even the Pointless Arrow was better. But the old Bangor & Aroostock logo (the Blue Shield with an complete short story in multiple fonts) takes the cake, IMO.
CatFoodFlambeI don't care for the current Amtrak logo - even the Pointless Arrow was better. But the old Bangor & Aroostock logo (the Blue Shield with an complete short story in multiple fonts) takes the cake, IMO.
But the old Bangor & Aroostock logo (the Blue Shield with an complete short story in multiple fonts) takes the cake, IMO.
I'll agree with that! That is a bad one.
I'm not sure why, and I know that some people may like it, but for some reason, I really don't like this one. The color? The design? I don't know, but I really don't want any cars with this logo on my layout:
That Mo-Pac logo would like fine on the vertical stabiliser of an airplane.
54light15There was a car called the "Krit" from about 1912, made by a man named Krittenden. It's radiator badge was a swastika.
Some of those cars are still around and can be seen at antique car shows. The owner/exhibitors typically cover up the swastika radiator caps. They don't feel like explaining it constantly. I can understand.
Convicted One ELRobby I have seen a reference that a railroad called the St. Louis, Rocky Mountain & Pacific (a Santa Fe predecessor) also used it, but I can't confirm that. I have seen pictures of the CA&S locomotive with the swastika on the tender (as I recall, in Sulzer's Ghost Railroads of Indiana). The Ft Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction Company started using a swastika as it's emblem in 1909 pictured here roughly at mid point of the car https://www.flickr.com/photos/shookphotos/8314193900 Also, just for scale and scope, I recall the pre WWII courthouse in downtown Birmingham Alabama had swastikas cast in cement on either side of it's main entry. Still in place the last time I was there in 1990. Every 10-15 years some new comer would come to work for the local news paper and have a fit upon seeing them, try to launch a crusade.
ELRobby I have seen a reference that a railroad called the St. Louis, Rocky Mountain & Pacific (a Santa Fe predecessor) also used it, but I can't confirm that. I have seen pictures of the CA&S locomotive with the swastika on the tender (as I recall, in Sulzer's Ghost Railroads of Indiana).
The Ft Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction Company started using a swastika as it's emblem in 1909 pictured here roughly at mid point of the car
https://www.flickr.com/photos/shookphotos/8314193900
Also, just for scale and scope, I recall the pre WWII courthouse in downtown Birmingham Alabama had swastikas cast in cement on either side of it's main entry. Still in place the last time I was there in 1990. Every 10-15 years some new comer would come to work for the local news paper and have a fit upon seeing them, try to launch a crusade.
The Pope County, AR (Russellville) courthouse was built in the 1930's as a WPA project. Don't know if the material is stone or concrete (probably concrete), but it contains some stylized eagles that would be right at home in Nazi Germany (very similar to some I've seen in pictures of those days).
The UP herald is my favorite.
Still in training.
SALfan1The Pope County, AR (Russellville) courthouse was built in the 1930's as a WPA project. .
I guess I was wrong, the masonry swastikas in Birmingham are hand carved, not cast in cement. I won't jump on the band wagon and post images that I do not hold the rights to, but pictures are availavble here:
https://www.al.com/strange-alabama/2012/05/swastikas_on_the_jeffco_courth.html
There used to be an abundance of F.W. & Wabash Valley Traction Company imagery showing their herald, on-line for one to see, but it's harder to come by now.
54light15 That Mo-Pac logo would like fine on the vertical stabiliser of an airplane.
Doesn't it? It reminds me a lot of the old Piedmont Airlines tail markings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedmont_Airlines_(1948%E2%80%931989)
GrampThe city of Berlin, WI changed the syllable to be emphasized in its name because of the wars with Germany from berLIN to BERlin. It's been BERlin ever since.
I think in German phonetically it is close to sounding like Bear-Lynn. In Wisconsin, if memory serves me correctly that same name is pronounces Burr-Lynn.
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