Arved Grass asked: "Is the Walthers X29 closer to the 1924 or 1928 build?" The 1924-1925 build. "In the absence of Red Caboose RC-7000 models (of the 1928 car), I'm looking for an easier way to

Is the Walthers X29 closer to the 1924 or 1928 build? In the absence of Red Caboose RC-7000 models (of the 1928 car), I'm looking for an easier way to model a 1928 version car than to kitbash the 1924

Do you know the years that are covered by these files? Cyril Durrenberger --------------------------------------------

Kadee will also do small run decals: http://www.kadee.com/htmbord/custom.htm Microscale and Rail Graphics will do larger runs. Arved Grass Arved_Grass@... or

Yes, Charleston, SC was an important banana importing point, particularly for loads going to the midwest on the Southern through Asheville, Knoxville and Cincinnati. The SRHA files at Kennesaw contain

Ben, The non italicized Cooper Black was found on some Santa Fe freight cars painted in the 70's & 80's. It was first used on road deisels starting in 1959, so it's out of scope for this group for

Hi Ben, I’m not aware of any railroad using Cooper Black Italicized. But as Cooper Black is a standard font in Word, and like all the Word fonts can be italicized, why not make your own, or have

My hope is that a few such typists and fontists reside here. Cooper black italic typeface looks like a post-1960 thing, but it was created in the early 1920s, and was according to Wiki, hugely

Brother William Bryk wrote: Say, brother, the type geeks and font snobs are a brotherhood too. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705

It is a somewhat cheeky answer. Moreover, I don't have the correct one. But I think overlooking the issue of font v. stencil and simply addressing whether any railroad used lettering in the style of

Ben, The simple, somewhat cheeky answer is that no, no railroads used Cooper Black italic font on their rolling stock... because as we have noted a number of time, rolling stock was not lettered with

Schuyler, Please contact me at genegreen1942 at yahoo dot com The email address I have for you is apparently no longer valid. I may have something of interest related to the above topic. Gene Green

Bob Chaparro wrote: "Toward the end of the page on the link below are three photos of end door boxcars. In these examples, fire engines are being unloaded out the end of the

Toward the end of the page on the link below are three photosof end door boxcars. In these examples,fire engines are being unloaded out the end of the car.

Pre-1900 on the C&O line the ministers between Newport News and Richmond objected to the shipment of oysters and imports requiring refrigeration because they might return with German beer brewed in

Hi Kind of an odd question, but I am wondering if any railroad used Cooper black italic font on their rolling stock. Sounds obscure but 'Cooper black' was what the ATSF used on their diesels, but

The RAILWAY AGE for Dec 19, 1931 Vol 91 No 25 p.931 has an article about the CB&Q recently completing a Banana Warehouse at Minneapolis, Minn. The “Q” was doing 350 carloads a month into and

Ed, First off I can not answer your question about Aviation fuel delivery but just a tidbit about it…And I am NOT a petro engineer but am an aviation historian and my aviation roots go back

I have photos of bananas being transloaded from boats/ships into FGE cars in Tampa and have seen photos of this kind at the Port of Baltimore that I intend to acquire. There is also LofC image of an

Sorry Tony! I knew it was one or the other. I didn't have time to check this morning but I knew that you wiuld be there for me. Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone