Charlie,
I thought I was unique. My Rhodes 22 sailboat is named Zephyrus and when I used to tow it, my truck's license plate was Aeolus! Unfortunately, my font is commercial block letters, but the name has been on the boat since 1984 and isn't going to change.
Bill Barber Gravois Mills, MO
Mon Oct 20, 2014 1:22 pm (PDT) . Posted by:Randy-
I think there were sculptural versions of the West Wind plaque..seems to me
there was a parade float that had a model of a early Zephyr (fairly crude)
that had the plaque incorporated into the presentation.
Neat idea..I will have to have one to add to my Zephyr art wall if you offer
castings. I did art for the even neater (IMHO) Aeolus plaque ..with Aeolus
"Keeper of the Winds" cradling a model of the streamlined S4a in the same
spirit of the Zephyrus plaque. (Although I guess technically Aeolus ought
to be carrying an ailing Shovelnose rather than the Aeolus itself!!). "Back
in the Day" when I did the Decal Artwork for Nickel Plate Products to use on
their HO model of the 4000 and the BRHS used the art for MicroScale's decal
later.
I wasn't having any luck finding a good image of the front end of 4000 and
4001 (had the Q drawing # but so far it hasn't turned up) but found the
calendar that showed it and at the same BRHS meet (Hillside IIRC) found a
timetable with another good view of it. Since then photos have also turned
up. At the time I was interested in getting it not only for railroad
history purposes but to use for crew jackets for my sailboat Aeolus which
was lettered with the correct Budd Co. Zephyr font (which I also did the
first artwork for used in Marshall Thayer's Zephyr articles in RMC).
Charlie Vlk
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