You an be certain the West Chicago Historical Museum would still have the
stencils carefully stored as )its municipality-owned so operatings costs are
assured and b) the staff are professional curators. Just go to their website &
either email or phone them Charlie. If memory serves me they may also have
some stencils or diagrams other than what Archie loaned.
Gerald
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> From: kliner@mywdo.com
> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:46:27 -0500
> Subject: Re: [CBQ] Q lettering diagram for 4 window 30' waycar
>
> Charlie and Tim, I have some stencils that came in an old painters
> trunk from the CB&Q but loaned the CB&Q to the West Chicago museum.
> Wonder if they still have them? I have some others and will see if
> anything will be of help. Regards, Archie
> On Aug 10, 2010, at 12:42 PM, cvlk 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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