Conrail Logo

[Fred Olka]

Maybe it is a can opener . About to open a can of worms!

[conrail_engineer]

ok i get it, thanks guys. It was the inner and outer rings that threw me off.

Some of their training and promo films made that clear...graphics of a set of railroad wheels rolling on track, morphing into the Conrail logo.

I gotta admit I never got it either, until I'd seen that opening to their videos.

[Conrail1990]

It always looked like half of a smiling face.

[RussNelson]

i dont see steel wheels on steel rails.

Loser! Imagine that you're looking at it in line with the axel. Squinting helps. So do psychoactive drugs.

[scottychaos]

I just re-uploaded the diagram I posted on page 1 of this thread back in 2004..at some point I must have deleted it, and the "RED-X" was showing up.

here it is again..this is how I personally intrepret the logo:



Scot

[scottychaos]

I always saw the logo as one wheel on one rail,
as depicted above.
but others (earlier in this thread) said they envisioned it
as two wheels on two rails..which I totally never saw until this thread!
two wheels on two rails would be something like this:



Scot

[Conrail1990]

Interesting. Thanx Scot.

[9secondvega]

As an ex electrician in Enola Diesel Shop, we lovingly referred to the logo as.........."SURF'S UP" Kinda looks like a big wave breakin' into white water, doesn't it?