Re: (erielack) Tower ID Sign Specifications? And Diamond E

[jon.liles_@_us.schneider-electric.com]

When will people learn that rotating the 'E' 45 degrees inside a square is not the same as
placing the 'E' inside a square rotated 45 degrees....Sheesh.

Jonathan W. Liles
ELHS # 3158
ELHTS # 45
NMRA # 125464
CVRHS # 195


                                                                                               
             Rich Young                                                                        
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- --- Rich Young <ryoungceo_@_yahoo.com> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 07:48:19 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Rich Young <ryoungceo_@_yahoo.com>
> Subject: (erielack) Tower ID Sign Specifications?
> And Diamond E
> To: Curt S <csprings52_@_yahoo.com>
>
>   Curt
>
>    Excuse my eastend ingnorance (us westenders think
> everything dropped off the map into staging after
> the
> Ohio boarder), was WC an Erie or DL&W tower. I have
> blue prints for Station and Structure signage for
> Erie. Which includes material,   height,  spacing,
> letter size.
>
> Coincidentally in the same book, the Diamond E
> marking
> stamp for tools and equipment has a drawing date of
> 1936 and revise date of 1942. Why they needed to
> revise a blueprint with square turned 45dregrees on
> it's center with an E inside vertical and centered
> from all points, I don't know! I can only assume
> some
> people were doing a square with an E rotated 45
> degrees off center line and that business needed to
> be
> reigned in. As a note on that drawing it says
> something to the effect of "replace drawing # xxxxxx
>
> E R I E RR  marking stamp when found to be unusable
> or
> lost"
>
> Rich Young
>
>
>


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