N&W steam era decals

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If these decals weren't completely correct, they wouldn't look too out of place in the Athearn and Accurail cars I have to run on account of budget. The Athearn HO scale 34" hopper I should take particular note. Being lettered as a HL (and it's not a fishbelly) and one car numbered as 40683, which I believe was a boxcar number. I have been removing the oversize numbers and placing the proper smaller numbers in their place. The end numbers are too small and have been the main difficulty to me, as I will have to match the  numbers of the hoppers with the sets when they arrive. I just wish I could have been able to afford the HL hoppers when they were offered by the N&WHS. But  at present I have to be content with the Athearn cars for the moment. The Accurail cars are pretty good, they were lettered for H5, which is not too bad, but Accurail's recent runs are for earlier lettering with the same body.
Lois J. Ponton
ljpli at hotmail.com

 



Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 13:10:31 -0700
Subject: Re: N&W steam era decals
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And, by the way, the artwork on the MRS hopper car decals was not the best. (Sorry, Tom; we were friends, but the artwork wasn't just right!) The old Champs (now discontinued) did not get the height of the "N&W" right (it was about halfway between 17" and 24"), but the shape and thickness of the letters and the ampersand were pretty good. Now and then you can find somebody offering the Champs on ebay, but you will never get to buy them from Champ again. If we can't interest Shellscale in filling the void, maybe the society could spring for a custom run from Rail Graphics or somebody who does custom decals. But get the artwork right! That shouldn't be so hard to do from photos with today's computer technology. And do both the 17" and the 24".
 
Jim Nichols





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Lois,
 
IIRC, Model Railroad Services was a line of decals owned by the late Tom English, who also owned Chesterfield Hobbies near Richmond, VA.  
 
Perhaps this is a project for the N&WHS modeling committee to explore; offering correct N&W decals would not only benefit our membership, but would also draw non-N&W modelers to our website to purchase decals....and probably books, etc.
 
The MRS decals were great, but are a result of technology and production methods that are probably over 20 years old or older.
 

Jim Brewer





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Friends:
At present the Model Railroad Services decals for N&W steam era freight cars is still listed in the Commissary as "temporarily out of stock" though I have heard that they will be discontinued. If so, I will be left without a important source for detailing my freight car fleet, as I model the late steam era (mid-1950's) on the N&W. I have had at present to suspend work on two 55-ton hoppers (no end decals) and a H2a hopper (no decals at all). If these decals are to be discontinued, do any of you know a source for finding decals for N&W freight cars in this period? Any assistance would be much appreciated.
Lois J. Ponton
Modeling the N&W glory years
ljpli at hotmail.com
 

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