[CBQ] Derrick 204376 [2 Attachments]

["scott myers" <myers.scottv@gmail.com>]

I am back to lettering a 250 ton wrecker in HO scale, and am wondering about sources for much of the smaller lettering (I have applied the herald and the large "CB&Q" and "204376").  I am particularly interested in the four lines of lettering (listed in the 2014 posts by Hol and Ben) that is on the rear and both sides of the cab.  I have pieced together words from individual letters at times, but I can't see doing that for lettering that is this small!  I also need decals for the length of "41 FT 0 IN" on the boom and the "WT 376000" that I can read from photos.  This latter lettering and some other lettering above the trucks does seem to vary over time per the photos I have, to include BB#18. Some of this other lettering is too small for me to read from the photos, and certainly won't be legible in HO scale, so I am thinking I can use any tiny decals to model these.

So, back to my questions:

1.  What has anyone used or can suggest as the source(s) for decals for this lettering?

2.  What is the font of this lettering?

3.  Anyone know what some of the other small lettering that I have not specifically stated reads?

Thanks in advance for any help that any of you can offer.

Scott Myers

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 12:35 PM Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Actually, the lettering reads:
 
DANGER
KEEP OUTSIDE THE RADIUS
OF THIS MACHINE
WHEN IN OPERATION.
 
Attached are scans of all or part of images that appeared in BB No. 18 on wreckers, and they show the lettering pretty well.  The radius of the two hooks was also stenciled on the boom, though the 204375-204376 both only show the 41 ft. 0 in. radius of the main hook not the boom tip hook.  Stenciled weight is 376,000 pounds, and by the 1960s the derricks were stenciled with their assignment, the 204376 having GALESBURG DERRICK at the upper rear of the side sill, the word GALESBURG hidden in the shadow.  I'll probably send one of the scans in a second message, since Yahoo limits attachments to 10 MB.
 
Hope this helps.
 
Hol
 

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To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 18:21:37 +0100
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Derrick 204376

 

FWIIW: Years ago End Cab Models sold the Athearn 250t crane in exactly this paintscheme, inclusive the warning:

                            DANGER 

                keep outside the radius

                 of this machine when

                     it is in operation

(all in capitals). This confirms Scott’s interpretation  as we may assume that ECM had access to the original or solid

documentation.

Ben de Vries, the Netherlands

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