Shapes of Emblems

(Such as the Union Pacific shield, the Chessie kitten, the Santa Fe Cross)

• Ann Arbor

  • Key (T,AA&NM), then flag

• Chicago & North Western

  • Circle with diagonal bar through it

• Detroit & Mackinac

  • Circle

• Detroit & Toledo Shore Line

  • Tilted parallelogram

• Detroit, Toledo & Ironton

  • Circle with four-sided star

• Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic

  • Split parallelogram

• Grand Rapids & Indiana

  • Oval

• Grand Trunk Western

  • Maple leaf, then skewed square

• Pere Marquette

  • rectangle

• Soo Line

  • oblique parallelogram

Le Roy Barnett retired in 2001 as an archivist with the State of Michigan Archives. Throughout his career, Dr. Barnett made note of railroad trivia as well as interesting railroad facts which he has shared with RRHX. We hope that you enjoy reading them. Many of these "sayings", slogans, film names will bring back memories for you. If you have other factual bits of trivia to add, there is a hot-link on each page for you to use.