I don't have the "Ribbon Style" lettering....just the Budd Zephyr font. We
think the CB&Q adopted the Ribbon Style as a result of the long-standing use of
CB&Q Diners in Florida service during the winter which was the off-season for
the CB&Q..... this is something that needs to be researched as I believe it
goes back to the wood car era. The Pullman CB&Q design diners were part of
this practice (the cars that apparently were leased by the Q, numbered above
the Q DA6s, and were sold in the 30s and 40s to KCS and ACL).
The Ribbon Style lettering is probably the same as the "ACL" font, which is
also available from RailroadFonts.com.... but again, I can't vouch for the
accuracy of it for CB&Q as I've not studied it.
Charlie Vlk
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Lotz
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 11:55 AM
Subject: RE: [CBQ] Request for 1950's - 1970's Zephyr Logo
Hi Ted,
I can assist with a higher resolution image of the Havelock lettering. What
logo are you talking about? Are just referring to the lettering?
Dave Lotz
BRHS Zephyr Editor
-----Original Message-----
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
tedander2000
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 8:30 AM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CBQ] Request for 1950's - 1970's Zephyr Logo
We are in the process of completing the restoration of Havelock baggage car
993 at the Illinois Railway Museum. In the next few weeks, one of the final
items is the lettering of the car as shown on page 39 of Burlington Bulletin
No. 36, and as illustrated for CB&Q 1016 on pp. 30 - 31 in the article
"Burlington's Havelock Economy Baggage Cars". The car is being restored by
the Wednesday Special Projects Group (mostly retirees)saving all labor costs
but for materials, about $800 in the hole. Currently we are blowing up the
side view of 1016 at great loss of resolution, and the call is out for a
better rendition. The IRM Pullman Library unfortunately does not have the
logo. Incidentally, there we are far along restoring, collating and
flat-filing Haskell & Barker (later the Michigan City Pullman facility)
freight car drawings 1906 - 1922 that have a great many CB&Q original car
drawings. The purpose of 993 once restored is to improve storage and access
of other Pullman freight car documentation from the 30's through the 60's.
There is access to our capabilities in the library on the IRM website
irm.org. Hope someone in this group can help us!
Sincerely, Ted Anderson, Pullman Library curator
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