Re: [CBQ] Re: Heavyweight Q Decals

["cvlk" <cvlk@comcast.net>]

Once again, here's a plea.....

SOMEBODY has to have, or know who has, CB&Q Railroad Roman lettering 
(stenciling) drawings for Passenger Cars, Freight Cars, and Locomotives.....

Yes, we can work off of photos to recreate them, but it would be nice to have 
the original documents to confirm what the charactrers were supposed to look 
like.

I wouldn't bet that the Champ decals were accurate..... each railroad had their 
own ideas of what RR ROMAN letters and numbers were supposed to look like (even 
varying with each size lettering) and Champ and Walthers often used a common 
font for printing roadnames.... and even then the spacing and size might not be 
correct.

Charlie Vlk


The sets you mention are fine for Pullmans or for hand lettering cars, but 
Champ is (was) the only company to produce decals for "Burlington" in Railroad 
Roman extended lettering, so their shutting down is a significant loss.


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