Assistant City Manager Josh Cline displays the City of Bluefield’s new logo during Tuesday’s meeting of the Bluefield City Board at Bluefield City Hall. The illustration pays tribute to the city’s railroad history with a train and blue and green colors.
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — The city board of directors voted unanimously Tuesday to select a drawing dubbed as the “railyard crest” as the city’s new logo.
The illustration pays tribute to the city’s railroad history with a train and blue and green colors. It includes the slogan “Bluefield, West Virginia — Nature’s Air-Conditioned City.”
“We are not getting rid of the city seal,” Assistant City Manager Josh Cline said. “This is not a removal of it.”
Cline said the city’s seal will continue to be used in all official documents, proclamations and ordinances however, the new logo will be added to new vehicles that are purchased by the city and will be used in other venues promoting the city.
The new logo also reflects the “crest” or “hump” associated with the old Norfolk and Western railyard.
“The best way to explain it — the crest is significant, or the hump,” City Manager Dane Rideout said. “It is the natural gravity hump that was the highest point on what had previously been the Norfolk and Western rail line, and the rail riders used that gravity hump to collect east bound coal cars with the train.”
Rideout said choosing a new logo for Bluefield was important…
