Freight Car Department

It is a 'process'.  We finally completed the milestone event of having the carbody repainted and it looks great.  Now, on to applying a fairly elaborate lettering scheme.  This began years ago researching the scheme, acquiring copies of old photos, tracing what remnants remained of the old lettering, redrawing most of it, some on a computer CAD system, getting that printed full scale, and cutting out transfer patterns and stencils.

It Begins

Finally it was time to put the icing on the cake.  The first transfer pattern is positioned in place on the car.

Big G

And the first letter painted on the car!  The bright white lettering provides a marked contrast and snaps out the red.  The car remains inside Barn 4 for the time being, so some of these shots will be color challenged in the dim light.

Next Patterns

The patterns for the next three letters have been placed on the side.  Can you guess what this string will say?

Big N

Each letter is painted by hand, in this case with a  half inch brush and premium lettering enamel.

The First Four

Here is the progress as of Sunday night.  It is starting to take shape.