Looking for CFN logo scan

[JopieK]

We have about 5 7750 Steam Engines. A stickersheet costs 114$ at bricklink but since we have a special printer that can also do white on transparent, I can also make the stickersheet myself.

However, I have been able to reproduce the whole sheet

save the CFN logo. I posted it a week ago at lugnet but no one seems to be able to help me. We should have it somewhere at the LEGO room but I can't find it (too much LEGO I guess).

Is there anyone with a good scan so I can redraw it in illustrator?

The 7730 has that Logo as well. It was replaced by SNCF in the other train sets.

I found at least some info about CFN:

http://www.countrybus.co.uk/stn.htm

It is interesting to see that some sites call it:

"Chemins de fer économiques néerlandais"

others say it is "Chemins de fer Normandes"

Well this becomes interesting, CFN seems to be used by quite some railroads:

# Companhia Ferroviária do Nordeste (CFN) (Controlled by Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional) (Brazil)

# CFN Chemins de fer économiques néerlandais (Netherlands)

# Compagnie du Chemin de Fer de Normandie

# Chemins de Fer Normands

although it seems that the first one is still currently active and that the latter onces were somehow affiliated with eachother.

I assume the CFN logo from LEGO was meant as this railroad company:

A little more history. There were originally three local rail companies in the département of la Manche: Tramways Normands (TN), Chemins de Fer Départementaux (CFD), and Chemins de Fer de la Manche (CFM). CFD and CFM were in financial difficulty by 1925 and it was agreed that TN take over all of the local railways. TN became the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer Normands (CFN) in 1928, operating both trains and buses. Many of the local rail lines closed in the 1930s, except the standard gauge lines in the Barfleur area.

The Société des Transports de Normandie (STN) name was set up on 29 June 1943 - but as a road freight company only. (The passenger operations continued under the CFN name). The last local rail service ceased on 30th September 1950 (the famed "Tue-Vaques" from Cherbourg to Barfleur), then it was buses only.

The STN company expanded into road passenger services too by taking over the CFN buses in 1954. Then on 28 February 1957 the Société des Transports Départementaux de la Manche (SGTD) merged with the STN, bringing together the two networks based on Cherbourg.

(source: http://www.countrybus.co.uk/stn.htm)

Edited August 21, 2008 by JopieK