Client: Central Vermont Railway (owned by CN)
Design: James Valkus and Allan Fleming (?)
Date: Unknown
In one of the opening scenes of the season 5 premier of Mad Men, the CN logo can be seen in the background on a poster, with a “CV” logo underneath it. A quick google search identifies this mark as Central Vermont Railway, which the CN took ownership of in 1923 and sold in 1995.
Comments
RicMarch 28, 2012
That show….Amazing attention to detail.
Peter LawsMarch 28, 2012
It’s an iconic logo. CV’s, presumably, came out around the time CN’s did – c.1960.
The Grand Trunk Western, the Port Huron to Chicago line of the Grand Trunk, another CN predecessor, also got a similarly styled GT logo around the same time. The
Duluth, Winnipeg, and Pacific, another CN subsidiary running north from Minnesota into western Canada just got a “DW&P” in some sort of Sans-Serif typeface. Nothing flowy to work with, I assume. :-)
Peter LawsMarch 28, 2012
Let me also add that the NH below them is the New York, New Haven, and Hartford, better known as the New Haven They ran a major commuter service into NY’s Grand Central Terminal (still exists, but run by MTA as the Metro North). That logo also came from an iconic late-50s rebranding.