Re: [CBQ] Ribbon Font Question

["Richard Gortowski via groups.io" <rgortowski=aol.com@groups.io>]

Nelson,

Actually, the green Havelock baggage cars starting arriving in very late 1950 and the silver cars in 1951, so these were early users of the new style lettering.

I model December 1950 and have yet to see a wooden or steel baggage car with the ribbon font that I could use.  In 1953 there may have been a few repaints that received the new lettering, but in my looking through pictures, it seems the old baggage cars were not changed until later in the 50's and 60's.

Rich

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From: Nelson Moyer <npmoyer@hotmail.com>
To: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io>
Sent: Tue, Aug 30, 2022 7:36 pm
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Ribbon Font Question

Thanks, Rich. I knew that the Havelock economy baggage cars got ribbon font, and are circa 1953, and I knew that the troop kitchens with open windows had Railroad Roman while the plated windows had ribbon font, so I had narrowed it down to about the same dates as you did.

 

The question came up because I’m building several baggage cars for the Zephyr Rocket, and all but one of the cars has ribbon font, but I don’t have the dates of the photos. It’s doubtful that all of the old wood baggage cars used on the ZR would have a high priority for new paint, so I was expecting more Railroad Roman lettering. I need more photos of ZR head end equipment.

 

Nelson Moyer

 

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