[CBQ] Surviving E5 items of interest

["Louis Zadnichek via groups.io" <LZadnichek=aol.com@groups.io>]

March 4, 2023

 

Bill - I received the following last night from retired EMD sales engineer Bill Barber.  Hope this further answers your question on EMD model designation plates, graphics and lettering fonts.

 

Bill followed with a brief second Email stating he "thought" the Seaboard Coast Line also used EMD model designation plates, but wasn't sure about any other railroad doing so - Louis

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From: clipperw@gmail.com
To: lzadnichek@aol.com
Sent: 3/3/2023 9:40:56 PM Central Standard Time
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Surviving E5 items of interest

Louis,

 

It has been my understanding that EMD manufactured and offered them as an option, but not many railroads purchased them. The Q was one that did. Per the attached excerpt from BRHS Bulletin no. 4 on the F units, the plates were first applied in 1952 and were purchased from EMD. All subsequent units though the SD45s were equipped with the model designation plates. The excerpt is from page 7 of the Bulletin. On the last page of the E unit Bulletin, no. 10, there is a styling and painting diagram which references application of the model designation plate and provides the EMD part number for it. That drawing might reference the font. I don’t have access to that drawing. Surely, someone in BRHS group knows what font was used. It seems like I have seen a drawing of the plate in one of the BRHS Bulletins, but I don’t recall which one. GE units also had the plates as I remember, but I don’t know where they came from. I doubt that EMD made them for their locomotives. 

 

Bill

 

On Mar 3, 2023, at 1:54 PM, <lzadnichek@aol.com> <lzadnichek@aol.com> wrote:

March 3, 2023

 

Bill - I do not know.  I've copied in Bill Barber who is a retired EMD sales engineer.  He may know.

 

Too bad Charlie Vlk is no longer with us.  He was very knowledgeable with Q graphics and fonts.

 

Thanks - Louis

 

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL

In a message dated 3/3/2023 1:38:19 PM Central Standard Time, cbq.bill@gmail.com writes:

 

Mike Louis, & Hol:

Did EMD & GE povide the model designation plates for all of their customers' locomotives ?

Or were the model designation plates a BR-only practice ?

What font was used for the letters & numbers in the model designation plates ?

Thanks in advance !!!

CB&Q Bill

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