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. SGL The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------ End of EL List Daily V3 #1734 *****************************
This HTML page is © 2000-2008 Blue Moon Online System and The Railfan Network
This page and the data contained therein may not be reproduced
for any form of commercial use without the explicit permission
of J. Henry Priebe Jr. or his duly authorized agent.