- 1. [CBQ] FW&D SW1200 Lettering Help Request (score: 1)
- Author: "timrwells" <trwells@comcast.net>
- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2022 04:26:12 -0700
- I am re-lettering a Rapido HO SW1200 to FW&D and I am wondering if there was a unit number and railroad initials on the cab end, era early 1960s. I have searched all my photos and have not found one
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- 2. Re: [CBQ] FW&D SW1200 Lettering Help Request (score: 1)
- Author: "Steven Holding" <sholding@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2022 13:56:46 +0000 (UTC)
- Tim This might not help any but I used photos to letter FWD 605 The Oppose Engine. FWD used switch engines for road engines on branch lines. Atlas engine in O Scale Will bring to SW O Scale Meet in F
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-09/msg00065.html (11,917 bytes)
- 3. Re: [CBQ] FW&D SW1200 Lettering Help Request (score: 1)
- Author: "mikethomasson24" <mthomasson@austin.rr.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2022 10:42:07 -0500
- Have you checked Steve Alan Goens book on the FWD? I have a copy I can check, but it will take awhile. On Sep 11, 2022 8:56 AM, Steven Holding <sholding@sbcglobal.net> wrote: Tim This might not help
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-09/msg00067.html (12,610 bytes)
- 4. Re: [CBQ] FW&D SW1200 Lettering Help Request (score: 1)
- Author: "William Barber" <clipperw@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2022 10:43:36 -0500
- Tim, While there is no good photo of a FW&D SW1200 from the cab end in the BRHS Flickr Collection, there are several such views of CB&Q SW1200s in Flickr. While the FW&D painted one NW2 in Chinese re
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-09/msg00068.html (9,976 bytes)
- 5. Re: [CBQ] FW&D SW1200 Lettering Help Request (score: 1)
- Author: "timrwells" <trwells@comcast.net>
- Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2022 19:26:19 -0700
- In looking through photos of the CB&Q SW1200s cab-end labeling, there appears consistency between the first and second sets of engines with the layout Bill describes; the lettering appears black and
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-09/msg00070.html (11,848 bytes)
- 6. Re: [CBQ] FW&D SW1200 Lettering Help Request (score: 1)
- Author: "HOL WAGNER" <holpennywagner@msn.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 14:36:00 +0000
- Tim: I photographed all four of the units in their Burlington paint, but sadly none from the rear. Sorry. Hol Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device -- Original message -- From: timrwells <trwells@comca
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-09/msg00076.html (14,697 bytes)
- 7. Re: [CBQ] FW&D SW1200 Lettering Help Request (score: 1)
- Author: "James Sandrin" <sandmantrains@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 10:24:48 -0600
- Tim: I photographed all four of the units in their Burlington paint, but sadly none from the rear. Sorry. Hol Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device -- Original message -- From: timrwells <trwells@com
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-09/msg00077.html (15,307 bytes)
- 8. Re: [CBQ] FW&D SW1200 Lettering Help Request (score: 1)
- Author: "HOL WAGNER" <holpennywagner@msn.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 18:18:44 +0000
- Tim: The as-delivered lettering on both the C&S and SW&D SW1200s was in "Railroad Roman" and was not yellow but white, and as the first photo from Jim Sandrin shows, included white reporting marks an
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-09/msg00079.html (16,460 bytes)
- 9. Re: [CBQ] FW&D SW1200 Lettering Help Request (score: 1)
- Author: "HOL WAGNER" <holpennywagner@msn.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 18:24:22 +0000
- That first sentence should have read "white reporting marks and unit numbers on either side of the cab headlight." Hol From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> on behalf of HOL WAGNER <holpennywagner@msn.
- /archives/BRHSLIST/2022-09/msg00080.html (17,328 bytes)
- 10. Re: [CBQ] FW&D SW1200 Lettering Help Request (score: 1)
- Author: "timrwells" <trwells@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 19:16:25 -0700
- Thanks Hol, Bill, and James for the guidance for lettering the cab-end (rear) of the FW&D SW1200s circa 1960. Tim Wells _._,_._,_ Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Re
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