Fontographer is currently available. I have Fontographer 4.1 which I purchased about a year ago. You can import an image into Fontrographer and trace over it. It creates fonts which can be "typed"

Display the FGE car as an FGE car, and have photos and models of PFE and SFRD cars. The FGE car will provide the "Wow it's big" and the "Look at how they put the ice inside them" effects... (well,

Mal, Its SFRD, not SFRE. You never did get the details right! ;-) regards, Andy Miller

Curt - I use Fontographer as well. The license of Fontographer was purchased a year ago by Font Lab. ( http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/22893.html ) Font Labs is selling a new package of

Go to http://www.desplaineshobbies.com/ and click on "our products" then "rolling stock" then "HO" and you will find: DPH296 - 301 - 40' boxcar, 10' IH, with early block lettering DPH320 - 325 -

--- In STMFC@..., Anthony Thompson <thompson@...> wrote: about details for SP lettering, but this is an > excellent example of how a nominally "close" font does NOT duplicate a >

As many have said, today's computer fonts may not be close to railroad lettering for many reasons. There are at least two software programs that you can use to modify existing fonts, or create fonts

Tom Madden wrote: During last October's Naperville event, Des Plaines had a fairly large number of the Soo Line boxcars for sale on a table at the front of the store, all with the dollar sign herald.

Blair, My earlier post needs a modification. I mentioned that Soo didn't have any cars matching the RC or IRC models. As Ben Hom mentioned, Soo Line had 100 cars of the 1937 AAR design built by

Blair, The Soo Line built 40' AAR box cars from 1949-1954 that had common features with 10-panel riveted sides, Youngstown-Camel doors over a 6' opening, diagonal panel roofs, and R+3/4 (early)

Oops! One too many slashes in the URL. Try this one: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/STMFC/files/Russ-L_19.jpg Dennis

List, Does anyone have a source of drawings or a trade press article about what an equipment diagram calls a "RUSS-L #19" roof? I've found three photos of cars having this roof; two Soo Line cars

Some time ago Des Plaines Hobbies had a special run done by Red Caboose for these cars. Small SOO herald, though, not the billboard style Blair is seeking. Don't know if Ron Sebastian has any left.

Hi Schuyler, The method I like is to solder the grabs to the laterals from below before installing the running board. That way I can trim the excess wire flush with the underside. I use Tix solder

Blair Kooistra asked: "I'd like to do at least one Soo Line 40' steel boxcar with 6' door for my railroad, but don't have a huge amount of research material handy to pull this off without at least a

Use .010" wire as it fits in the holes in the laterals provided by Plano. .008 is closer to scale but .010 is a good compromise for strength. I used to use the DA eye bolts for the corner support but

I'd like to do at least one Soo Line 40' steel boxcar with 6' door for my railroad, but don't have a huge amount of research material handy to pull this off without at least a little input from the

Attaching corner grabs to Plano laterals: Hoo boy, what a pain that is. The open-grid pattern and the expanded pattern, and maybe the Morton, have the three attachment holes etched. But, they're too

Schuyler - My technique involves popping them out of a pair of tweezers and never finding them again. (I did hear them hit once, but I'm not quite sure where.) As you might guess, the results are less

Even some of the most chaotic and poorly maintained museums can be used as an adjunct to successful modeling of freight cars. Here are some of the things to look for at Billy-Bob's Rail Museum and