Adding to Charlie's request - I'll be more than happy to digitalize
such drawings (even if they DO get to 20'). Anything up to 3' x 30
or more feet is fine. This applies to these drawings as well as any
other that the BRHS, IRM, and manuf. reps can access for the good of
modelers and restoration.
Along with that, I'll add more. The Pullman Library at the Illinois
Railway Museum recently purchased a Havelock Baggage car (993). This
car will be used to house a wide variety of documentation and drawing
(much of the documentation will be test results from Budd, freight
car correspondence files, and other such). The car is in the process
of being fully restored to its Burlington appearance. It is
possible, that this car will be in the shadow lined scheme. A lot
depends on available information, and, of course, funds. Help is
needed to bring this car back - it has corrosion issues, and some
structural issues.
The 993 photo Album:
http://www.irm.org/gallery/album205
As long as we are talking baggage cars here....there is an ongoing
fund raising effort for the purchase and maintenance of the
OLYMPUS. The hope there is that it might become a common headend car
on the train of the Goddesses at IRM. I think most of us on this
list have seen the OLYMPUS in photos and consists. It had a lot of
assignments and was heavily used. There is a fund raising effort to
bring it "home". This is a unique opportunity to bring a Zephyr car home.
Here is OLMPUS's photo album :
http://www.irm.org/gallery/album237
I'll be honest - attempting to find ANYTHING in IRM's Byzantine web
site requires far more skill than I have. I know there are
locations to donate for both cars, but haven't found it - perhaps
Phil can help?
Gee... you think that might be the reason for things not being funded?
At 12:42 PM 8/10/2010, you wrote:
>Adding to Tim's request....
>
>We need to locate CB&Q drawings for Railroad Roman lettering in
>general..... for freight cars, passenger cars, and locomotives. I
>cannot beleive that all the drawings for the alpha and numeric
>characters eluded preservation.
>
>Years ago I secured the Q drawings for the Budd Zephyr font and my
>artwork was used by Marshall Thayer when he presented the early
>shovelnose drawings in Model Railroad Craftsman. Subsequently,
>Micro-Scale did the Zephyr font in decals as well. I used it for
>the Nickel Plate Products "Aeolus" decal lettering artwork. The
>"Ribbon-Style" font was done by Micro-Scale but I am not sure what
>was used to create it beyond photos as I have never seen any CB&Q
>drawings covering that style.
>
>Note that there are some painting and lettering drawings (P&L,
>sometimes called "styling" drawings) but those usually do not show
>the accurate shape of lettering, just a cartoon of the placement on
>the car or locomotive. There are separate references to the alpha
>and numeric characters (usually a different set for each letter size
>and often different for freight, passenger and locomotive
>applications). In addition to these there were also full size
>"stencil" drawings which reproduce the lettering at 1:1 .... these
>tend to get a little large as sometimes the lettering stretched out
>20 feet or more depending on the application.
>
>Somebody has to have such drawings..... I would like to borrow them
>for digitization and making up accurate artwork and fonts for future
>models (and, in Tim's case, restoration of actual equipment). It is
>possible to work from photos to reproduce such lettering but it
>would be nice to have the official CB&Q drawings as a resource.
>
>Charlie Vlk
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tf5077
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 5:33 PM
> Subject: [CBQ] Q lettering diagram for 4 window 30' waycar
>
>
>
> Hey guys..
>
> Iam looking for the "old" lettering diagram with the scripty type
> lettering rather than the newer block type letter. Iam repainting
> my waycar back to boxcar red and need the older lettering. My
> waycar was built in 1918. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated...........
>
> Thanks in Advance
>
> Tim
>
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