Bob-
I didn't mean that you should start a research program to find the drawings I
was mentioning. I've not been able to get out to Union to work at the
Pullman Library (I've only done it on two prior occassions) because I haven't
had the time as I'm trying to get the house ready to put on the market so we
can relocate out of the area.
Your idea is a valid one..... I would gladly schedule a day when a bunch of
CB&Q people would converge on Union (with the prior arrangement with Ted
Andersen) with the idea of putting in at least a day of conserving, indexing
and reviewing with an emphasis on CB&Q material. I know I would be
interested in underwritting the digitization of material found (such as the
lettering data).
Since we (BRHS) do not have an archives I think that this would, at least, be
something worthwhile we could do to help preserve CB&Q material.
I would like to hear from any list member (BRHS member or not) who would be
interested in such a "work party" and I will coordinate it with Ted to get it
set up. Ted's regular work day for volunteers is Wednesdays but we may be
able to schedule a different day if Ted would be available or would prefer that
the regular work not be interrupted with a bunch of first-timers clopping
around the premises.....
Thank you,
Charlie Vlk
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: Heavyweight Q Decals
As described earlier, the best method for this is to emulate what the
SLHS has done - bring in volunteers who can aid in the research and
physical effort required. As the last few times anything like this
has been discussed have been greeted with nothing but yawns (if that)
I don't see it happening. The Burlington is one of many roads,
there are millions of drawings to conserve, index and review. There
is no incentive to put CB&Q drawings and/or information in front of
any other effort. Sounds tacky, but that is (literally) the bottom line.
At 01:42 PM 12/9/2010, you wrote:
>
>
>Bob-
>
>If you can locate ANY CB&Q lettering drawings in I would be much
>interested in getting scans of the documents.
>Most of the Pullman documents I looked at in the Pullman Library
>collection made reference to CB&Q Lettering and Painting (L&P)
>drawings but the actual drawing
>nor the Stencil Drawings (with the actual shape of the characters,
>not the arranagment of the lettering) were not included in the files.
>Maybe a set of drawings are in the files somewhere.... one can only hope.
>
>Ditto for Freight Equipment and for that matter Locomotive lettering.....
>
>I will make up computer usable Fonts that and share them with all
>interested if anything can be found... ("back in the day" I inked the full
>Budd/Zephyr Alphabet and Numbers from CB&Q drawings that first
>appeared with Marshall Thayer's Zephyr drawings in RMC).... later they
>were probably used as the basis for Micro-Scale's decal artwork for
>Budd cars, etc..
>
>Charlie Vlk
>
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