I grew up with that logo around me everywhere I looked. My father worked for CN for 41 years. You know what they called it inside CN? "The lazy 3." Think about it. And apparently it was originally CNR but they lost the R. Because they were growing in marine, rail, trucking...
Thank you for this. It is the iconic logo that is referenced in every Canadian design class along with the classic drawn-on-a-napkin-on-the-way-to-meet-with-the-client origin story.
I grew up with that logo around me everywhere I looked. My father worked for CN for 41 years. You know what they called it inside CN? "The lazy 3." Think about it. And apparently it was originally CNR but they lost the R. Because they were growing in marine, rail, trucking...
Interesting, I hadn’t heard this. Thanks for sharing Jim
Thank you for this. It is the iconic logo that is referenced in every Canadian design class along with the classic drawn-on-a-napkin-on-the-way-to-meet-with-the-client origin story.