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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 27 Jan 1995.
Re: TEE logo, was: Re: Thalys: The next European High-Speed

Re: TEE logo, was: Re: Thalys: The next European High-Speed Trains

Sven Manias (UA4...@ibm3090.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de) wrote:

: I agree, I agree, I didn't mean I have anything against the TEE logo...
: I just meant that if the European railways were to revive the TEE name,
: they would probably discard the old TEE logo (unless there is some way
: to modernize it tastefully).  Beautiful as it may be, its style is,
: alas, a little dated and would probably not fit in with the efforts of
: the railways' various marketing departments to convey the image of
: modern and future-oriented enterprises. (That is also one reason why
: railways are sometimes less than sympathetic towards historical steam
: operations, especially on main lines.)

For those who don't know what the TEE logo looked like (due to
their space or time horizon) here is an attempt to draw it:

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    88       d8P        d888888888P     d888888888P   88
    Y8d     d8P        d8P             d8P           d8P
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         `"Y8888P"'      `"Y8888P"'      `"Y8888P"'

--
tobias benjamin k�hler                  ,-/o"O`--.._      _/(_
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s_t...@ira.uka.de    (`o-..___..--''o:,-'  )o /._" O "o 0 o : ._>
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<<la propriete,                           `-`.,)      \`.o`._
  c'est le vol>> - p j proudhon         pic: felix lee `-`-.,)

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From: s_t...@ira.uka.de (Tobias Benjamin Koehler)
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Subject: Re: TEE logo, was: Re: Thalys: The next European High-Speed Trains
Date: 27 Jan 1995 09:06:19 GMT
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