...but it was done in brass in TT-scale!!! A 'Joma' import from Japan. Drawings from the '31 CBCyc were reprinted in Train Shed Cyclopedia 46... and an article by Jim Cassidy on upgrading the Mantua H

Super-clean photo of a classic Lackawanna center-cupola wood caboose... DL&W 842... NPS Steamtown collection, circa-1931 The grabiron mounting details would be a trick to model... and note the substan

Ref: http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-08-25-19/X7535.jpg From the Erie Lakawanna list, PM 91493 - double-door steel box car on the left... What type of end is this? Thin-thin-Fat...

Agree completely... Opinions are interesting, but some normative documentation is needed. -------------------- Richard Brennan - San Leandro CA --------------------

Ok I'll bite: Was the band with "The Hoosier Line" -ALWAYS- light grey..? ...or did some re-paints get done in white? ...and just how light was the 'light' grey? i.e. one drop of grey in a bottle of w

Oh NO!!! You mean I have to throw away the dark pink cover stock I've been testing on??? Seriously... this is excellent advice. ...and I swear that the decals print better if I've 'exercised' the Ghos

Another 'find' in the NPS Steamtown photo archives... A barge full of Hercules Portland Cement covered hoppers... circa-1930; featuring a number of early 4-bay cement hoppers in the HCCX-10xx series.

...and that contrast flare can make '8' and '6' nearly indistinguishable, as well as 'O' and 'D' or even 'B' and 'E'. I have yet to identify a complete rounded serif freight car lettering set from the

Absent a full set of railroad stencil drawings; Basing the lettering on car photographs is the ONLY way to generate accurate artwork... at least for the exact car and date in the photo used. More cave

As Tony points out; Railroads in the steam era primarily stencil sets: Terminology (from my presentation) Typeface: A set of letters, numbers and symbols that share common design features Railroad Ste

The Ghostwhite cartridge physically replaces the 'K' (blacK) toner cartridge in compatible CMYK color laser printers, including many HP and some others. Set-up decal artwork for 'true black' (CMYK = 0

...not the load, but the car is: SP 143093, Class F-70-10, SP Sacramento-built 1954, all-welded (Ref: Southern Pacific Freight Cars Vol 3, Tony Thompson) -------------------- Richard Brennan - San Lea

The car being loaded: SP 63084, Class A-50-4, SSC-built 1921; rebuilt with wider doors and steel ends circa-1938, type XAR. (Ref: Southern Pacific Freight Cars Vol 3, Tony Thompson) ------------------

You can eMail Tom Dempsey directly; at <tom@...>... -------------------- Richard Brennan - San Leandro CA --------------------

The photo I have archived of sister car 2904 shows slightly different spacing on what is essentially the same lettering. The 'State of Maine' is stretched so the "S' and the 'E' are outboard of the ve

Clover House has a Dry-Transder set for the Red-White-Blue believers... http://cloverhouse.com/Cart/product_info.php?cPath=1_16&products_id=11463 with White-Black-Red lettering. You could ping Tom Dem

YES... I'm using the Ghostwhite toner from Germany for decals in multiple scales. It fits many HP, and some other CMYK color laser printers. https://www.ghost-white-toner.com/en/ So far... results hav

In the ongoing 'Which is better for creating decal artwork?' battle ... between Adobe Illustrator (AI), Corel Draw (CDR), and Inkscape; There -is- one CLEAR winner: ...the one that YOU take the time t

There are photos... and then there are photos that let you count growth rings on the brake platform! http://lists.railfan.net/erielackphoto.cgi?erielack-09-11-18/X5127.jpg More goodness on the ErieLac

For the last decade... I've contacted Archer in Youngsville, NC, just outside of Wake Forest, NE of Raleigh. If Archer was somewhere else at one time... it is news to me! This is the area where the fo