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| Author: | David A. Vago [ Sat May 04, 2002 4:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | C of G Passenger Car Lettering |
I am trying presently to come up with some lettering to apply to a Central of Georgia passenger car as it would have appeared around the First World War and shortly thereafter. So far, what I have to work with are photographs to scale from, and some rough measurements taken from ghosted lettering on a heavyweight steel car, but I do not have an exact overall length, nor do I have exact measurements of serifs and details. There are some major discrepancies between the measurements and the photographs. The car I am working on is a wooden car, and judging from photographs that I have scaled from, the same lettering (dimensions included) was used on both steel and wood cars of the era. So, does anyone out there have an old C of G passenger car with 1920s-era lettering on it that is still plainly legible? Kind of RR Roman style, but not quite.....lettering diagrams or good, large, clear photographs will do as well. I have already talked to the C of G H.S. and am looking through the C of G company archives, but so far nothing has turned up. Thanks very much in advance, David A. Vago Roundhouse Railroad Museum, Savannah, GA davago61@hotmail.com |
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| Author: | Dave [ Sat May 04, 2002 7:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: C of G Passenger Car Lettering |
To clarify this is Central Railroad and Banking Company inspection car #2 - we wish to make it appear as it did in C of G livery of 1918 or thereabouts. Please get Vago the info ASAP - he is to be congradulated on his great new position at Cass this summer. Not much time left to finish the lettering. Nice when a young person makes good. Dave irondave@bellsouth.net |
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