ANN ARBOR RAILROAD CO.

Some photographs suggest silver funnel bands. The A1016 funnel photograph shows a broad band and a large serif “A”; the FOTW flag follows Brown 1951.

The circular annulet bears black “ANN ARBOR” above and “RAILROAD COMPANY” below. The centre is unclear: possibly a four-pointed star, red or black and red. The funnel appears on Viking, formerly Ann Arbor No. 7 and renamed in 1965, apparently during sea trials. An undated colour photograph and a Wabash photograph support the main colours, with the central symbol apparently black and red.

The emblem appears slightly oval, with a black stern view of a large vessel and presumably sea below; the red object is unidentified. Viking apparently changed to this version, shown in a 1981 photograph and another taken while laid up.

A mid-1970s photograph of Arthur K Atkinson shows a white funnel band surmounted by two large red “A”s touching one another.

A photograph of Arthur K. Atkinson dated 6 January 1986 shows an apparently silver band. Rosanoski based the drawing on a logo but changed its orange surround to black and its orange symbol to red to match the photograph, whose colours appear washed out. The symbol may be a double “A” without horizontal bars. A black-and-white photograph from August 1981 also shows this funnel. The markings evidently survived the vessel’s 1983 sale with Viking to Peterson Builders Inc.; the source records lay-up and a further sale in 1994 to Contessa Cruise Lines.