Re: (erielack) Akron freight house logo picture

["J. Henry Priebe Jr." <root_@_net.bluemoon.net>]

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 Philip Albano wrote:

> Henry and list,
> 
> The solid E within the diamond on the Akron freight house is intriguing in
> how it foreshadows the development of the modern EL diamond with the
> separated elements of the E and L. IIRC, this station was built around 1949
> (or was that just the passenger station?). 

That was the newer Union Station, now long gone. In the previous post the
photos of the freight house lead me to believe it was built well before 1949.
My guess would be that it was built at least 20 years earlier than that.

> The Erie would have had to
> approve the blueprints for it, thus making one wonder if the Erie was
> thinking about changing from spelling out ERIE to a simple, solid E? Think
> about how a solid E within a diamond would have looked on say a Berkshire
> tender. Almost too modern for that era. Or is the Akron station logo an
> anomaly that somehow slipped in? The Corning, NY station was built during
> the same timeframe but had no solid E, just modern metal letters spelling
> out "ERIE" above the entrance. The only other evidence I can find of a solid
> E within the diamond is on page 119 of EL Color Guide to Freight and
> Passenger equipment by Larry DeYoung. Ballast hopper EL 424302 has a solid E
> - was this just a paint shop mistake? If so , there was more than one as I
> vaguely remember seeing these ballast hoppers and thinking the solid E
> looked odd.

The still standing Erie Frieght House in downtown Buffalo has ERIE spelled out
in the masonary, but I think that one is quite a bit older than Akron's.

Henry


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