The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-19
HERALDRY or THE RAIL.
UNIQUE AND SIGNIFICANT DEVICES
ON TINE TABLES.
Railroad Notices and Seals-Pictur-
esque Trade Marks Long AssOcIn-
ted With Some OF the Principal
Lines-SOme Railroad Niclxnames.

AAheS-SOlne ha1ArOau NicAntAnleAs
From the New York Times.
A car wheel enveloped in a cloud of
steam was the device drawn by friend
of George Stephenson early in the present
century to typify 1.-THE railways of the
future" That was at time when the
professional engineers of Great Britain
were soothing at Stephenson for daring to
appear before a committee of parliament
and urge the superiority OF locomotive en-
gines over stationary engines. Since that
period the heraldry of the railways has
pursued an interesting course OF develop
ment and variation.
The insignia of the first railroad opened
for general traffic was four-wheeled To-
comotive of the primitive type, designed
by George Stephenson. The Stockton and
Darlington railway, twenty-five miles in
length, was constructed in England under
the direction of Mr.. Stephenson, as chief
engineer, and was opened for travel on
Sept 27, 1925. This was the first railroad
on which passenger coaches were ever
drawn by a steam engine, although Ste
phenson he'd, eleven years before, demon
strated the practicability of his engine on
the Killingworth coal tramway.
In recent years the locomotive has not
figured to any great extent as a railway
trademark. But few railroad companies
in this country make use of 1t as a dis
tinguishing mark for cars, letter heads, or
time tables Most of the .heraldic de-
vices of American roads are of a mono
sramic character. The Florida Central
and PeninSular road used to have for its
seal a red shield, on the face of which
was, the front of q locomotive with an
elephants head and prObocis protruding
from the forward end of the boiler. Encir-
cling the elephants head were the words
FLORIDA Trunk Line" Since the rec
ord-breaking achievements of the New
York Centraps 1893. pictures of that noted
locomotive have become familiar in con-
nection with advertisements of fast trains
on the Vanderbilt lines. The trademark
of the Southern Pacifc's Sunset Route"
is whole tram of cars sl1irting the north
ern edge of the earth.
One of the most striking of railway
trademarks is that of the Iron Mountain
route-a stays head boldly and grace
fully drawn, and usually printed in
black. The Queen and Crescent has an
exceedingly pretty device. 1t represents
the Queen OF the Seasons poised on the
planet earth, and on the surface of the
planet is delicately traced the route of the
Queen and Crescent system. The initials
Q, and Z. almost form a foot-rest for the
figure of the Queen. A green and yellow
maple leaf represents the Chicago Great
lear outlining the railway and its branches.
This same idea is carried out with the
clover leaf by the. Toledo, St. Louis and
Kansas City road, which is commonly
known as the Glover Leaf line. The
trademark of the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois is an elephants head with dang
ling trunk. In one of the eyes of the
animal is La Crosse. All along down are
well-known stations on the line, terminal
nag WITH NASHVILLE at the extremity of the
trunk. This route Is called 1.-The trunk
line of the SOUTH"
The familiar keystone is the only distin-
gushed device used by the Pennsylvania
railroad. 1t appears on all the time tables
and many of the company's letter heads,
sometimes printed with black ink, and
sometimes red. The words "PennsyiVa-
mia Lines" are inscribed on the keystone
For the New York, Ontario and Western
there is the monogram o. W. imprinted
in white upon red square. The Erie
Lines is stamped on disk of black set
in a lighter-colored square. A neat de-
sign is that of the Michigan Central road.
1t represents a train conductor on one side
and an engineer on the other, folding up
banner upon which are the words in
red letters Michigan Central" and in
smaller type below the line The Niaga-
ra Falls Route" Entering in fanciful
scroll at the top of the banner is minia-
ture locomotive.
trade mark of the Missouri Pacific rail-
way, the name of the system being printed
on the face of the seal, which is also cross
ed by section of track. The Grand Rap
ids and Indiana railroad is known as the
Fishing Line" and its faVorite insignia is
a circular picture Of a fish lleaping out Of
set in steel-shaded square, bears the in
scription The Great Rock Island Route"
and in the four corners OF the square ap-
pear the words Omaha, Chicago, Denver,
and Kansas city" A wise-looking owl,
with properly inscribed shield in it's
breast, stands for the Pittsburg and Lake
Erie railroad end a blue shield, on the
face of which is imprinted "The Iowa
Route is the trade mark of the Burling-
ton, Cedar Rapids and Northern.
The Union Pacific device is a large
American shield bearing on its lower half
the inscription 1.-THE Overland Route" For
the Wabash line there is a red flag with a
appears Memories of the early Indian
DAYS of Florida are recalled by the trade
marke of the Tampico route, which is a
fluted stone arrowhead. The frontispiece
on the time tables of the International and
Great Northern railroad is black square,
containing in it's center the lone star of
Texas, and below that the American and
the Mexican coats OF arms. Uniting the
two shields is the word Laredo" and
above and below are inscribed Galveston
Houston, Austin, and San Antonio"
One of the favorite stamps of the Balu-
more and Ohio system is small round
device showing the letters b and . attach
ed to the dome of the national capitol
Around the edge of this circle are the
words. IAN trains run via Washington
A four-leaf clover typifies the traditional
good luck of the Rome, WatertoWn and
Ogdensburg railroad, each leaf bearing an
initial letter, as II. w. d ." The Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railroad, which is
more familiarly known as katy" has
simple design in red and white, the let
tiers M, X. and IT, being printed In white
st. Paul. Minneapolis and Omaha railway
has a scroll of black laid across a red cir
Gle, the only lettering being. THE North
western Line" For the Chesapeake and
Ohio railway, the monogram &c. and o."
has been the familiar trade mark for
many years. Several railway companies
use az distinguishing marks small squares
Of oblong stamps, usually red and white
In color. or these may be metioned the
Chicago Milwaukee and st. Paul, the
Albert Lea route. and the Mobile and Ohio.
The nomenclature of the railways is Of
ten as unique and interesting as are the
trade marks. Whenever 1t is possible to
abbreviate the full title of railroad, the
great public eagerly avails itself of the
shortest phrases. Nobody now thinks of
calling the New York, Chicago and st.
Louis railroad anything but the Nickel
Plate, and few persons who speak of the
big Four system know that the name OF
that system Is Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chi
cago,. and-St. Louis.
The name OF Nickel Plate as applied 10 a
railroad originated In this way Calvin s.
Brice and associates built road parallel
ing the Lake Shore and practically put It
up I'm the market for sale AS Jay Gould
seemed TO be nibbling at II, William H.
Vanderbilt concluded that he would bet
ter buy It for the protection of his Lake
shore interests He asked the price and
tuf a.