NSE: What is the point of this model?

[peteski]

No no no. You missed the periods. It's: [..CSX..]

OMFG, every train in the U.S. just derailed!!!! Oh, the humanity!

NOW YOU'VE DONE IT!  I'm glad I didn't get it right. 

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Ok, going on a tangent: Is is just me who finds the new CSX logo silly?  Evey time I see it it reminds me of a code used when posting messages to an online forum.    Um, I wonder what will happen if I try. Here is goes:  [CSX] .  Um, nothing. It doesn't work here either.    Yet, some advertising expert had the bright idea to put the CSX lettering in square brackets!  How innovative! 

I totally agree. I also think that it's incredibly ironic, given that the profitable way to run a railroad, apparently, involves using as few boxcars as possible.

They could've at least used something like a stack car.

But, then again, CSX's charm has never been in its good taste.

[bbussey]

I understand - I guess the age old question is - why wouldn't collectors want to collect something close enough to real?

I know.  I know.....

People like shiny objects with big printing.

I don't understand it either.

[Dave V]

I like my little trains to look as much like the big ones as possible...doesn't everybody?   

No need to reply; I know the answer already.

[jpwisc]

I like my little trains to look as much like the big ones as possible...doesn't everybody?   

I do, but I'm surprised at how many people don't care or have no idea what the real thing really does look like. Oh well, they contribute the the viability of the manufacturers, so let them buy away. It's their money.

[dougnelson]

Well, I missed out on the Pac Mac (Pacramento?!?) car at the NSE auction because someone was so enthusiastic that they bid $350 for the car.

Not much of a collector myself, but I did win this car as a booby prize at the NMRA convention:


Still looking for prototype photos of it.

[wm-webb]

Still looking for prototype photos of it.

  They were on tape and accidentally erased.

[ljudice]

Not only the paint, but the number, which is easy to look up:

[sundowner]

But, then again, CSX's charm has never been in its good taste.

Yeah they lost all good taste when they swallow baby blue.

[Roger Holmes]

Can't remember if it's my right brain or my left but I see the logo as a train car.  The brackets are the ends of the car and the dots are the wheels--hence, "How tomorrow moves [in a CSX car].

That said, though, it's like a joke you have to explain not being funny anymore.  Hope they didn't pay too much.............(these dots are NOT little wheels)

[tom mann]

Ok, going on a tangent: Is is just me who finds the new CSX logo silly?  Evey time I see it it reminds me of a code used when posting messages to an online forum.    Um, I wonder what will happen if I try. Here is goes:  [CSX] .  Um, nothing. It doesn't work here either.    Yet, some advertising expert had the bright idea to put the CSX lettering in square brackets!  How innovative! 

Almost like [CSX] is a shortcode to bring up a really logo but the logic is broken.

[jmarley76]

Not much of a collector myself, but I did win this car as a booby prize at the NMRA convention:


Still looking for prototype photos of it.

Did you check at the Watergate Hotel? The night janitor might have something on it... 

[nkalanaga]

Roger:  A stylized railroad car was the first thing I thought of when I saw that logo.  The second was that it was a little silly, in that anyone looking at it would KNOW that CSX was a railroad, because it was painted on a railroad car! 

Now, the old Seaboard might have had a use for such a logo.  Seaboard Air Line doesn't exactly sound like a railroad company.  Yes, I know where the name came from, and that it was used before anybody had an airplane, but it still sounds confusing.

[peteski]

When I made my comment about the logo I knew what it was representing. But I still think it is silly since it also looks like the CSX lettering is surrounded by periods and square brackets.  Come on ad execs, come up with something more creative.  It just plain looks silly (for all the reasons mentioned).