Thanks Charlie,
I am at this moment drawing up the C for Colorado from photos so this is the
way to go. Just out of interest we are finding flecks of yellow paint under
the gold on our letter boards, the gold we assume is C&S but could the yellow
be Union Pacific Denver and Gulf ? Does anyone out there have any idea as to
whether the lettering was yellow or gold for either UPD&G or DT&FW ?
Mike Pannell
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From: cvlk <cvlk@comcast.net>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com; colorado-railfan@yahoogroups.com;
union_pacific@yahoogroups.com; earlyrail@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, 9 February, 2010 10:26:10
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Online font catalogue
I've found that you have to work off of photos for a particular car or
locomotive even if you have the correct style lettering.
Lettering was either hand painted by skilled signpainters or applied using
handcut stencils using the railroad drawings (as a starting point).
While some fonts can be used as a starting point, they almost always have to be
tweaked to match photos.
Many commercial models don't do this, especially when you get down to the
dimensional data and other smaller stencils.... . they just pick a typeface
that looks "close".
Railroad Roman was modified by each railroad that used such a typeface.... . it
is unbelievable how many variations there can be. The proportions of letters,
angles, stroke thicknesses, shape of curves, height of cross elements,
treatment of serifs, design of ampersands, etc, etc... are different from road
to road. And, has been mentioned before, there were different sets for each
size of lettering. Arghhh!!!
I'd still like to have some Burlington drawings as a starting point!
Charlie Vlk
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From: MICHAEL PANNELL
To: cbq@yahoogroups. com ; colorado-railfan@ yahoogroups. com ; union_pacific@
yahoogroups. com ; earlyrail@yahoogrou ps.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 10:27 AM
Subject: [CBQ] Online font catalogue
Hi to all
In my continuing search for railroad passenger car lettering styles for C&S i
found this site http://www.railfont s.com/ which shows a Railroad Roman font.
This is similar although the letters are compressed even more to fit on the
letterboard.
Interesting site anyway.
Mike Pannell
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