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From: "J DOT Henry Priebe Jr DOT " root AT net DOT bluemoon DOT net
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:11:14 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: RE: (erielack) Logos
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On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Schuyler Larrabee wrote:

>
> I'm a bit late getting in on this (been pretty busy) but first of all, I think Dan Biernacki's
> analysis of the ERIE diamond is right on the mark . . So to speak, no pun intended.
>
> It has a much longer history with the railroad than the 1920's as someone speculated. It's in paper
> items for the ERIE well back into the 1880's, and there's a school of thought that it came
> originally from one of the earliest passenger cars, the (working from memory here . . . ) the Moth's
> Patent Car. The side was structured with a lattice of diagonal steel bars, and the windows were
> diamond shaped openings between the bars. The car's covered in the John White book, American
> Railroad Passenger Cars, for those who want to look in to that.

Here's the Erie diamond on the still-standing Akron, OH freight house which I
shot yesterday around noon. The E in the diamond certainly wasn't anything
new when the EL was formed. The logo is a testament to the Erie's "takeover"
of the DL&W and the only contribution the Lackawanna made to the new logo was
the color and two small missing sections of the "E!"

Henry


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