RE: (erielack) Logos

["Schuyler Larrabee" <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net>]

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


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