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Loco lettering colors 8 years 10 months ago #4537

t1nut OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 323 Thank you received: 55	I own the tender number plate from T-1 #2126 it is a flat plate and the numbers are white paint.
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Loco lettering colors 8 years 10 months ago #4538

Robin OFFLINE Conductor Posts: 173 Thank you received: 47	Oh, dear. Sorry about that, Bill! The numbers are definitely raised on the smokebox fronts. The rear numbers appeared to use the same font, so I figured they were cast too. Butch's relic speaks otherwise.
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Loco lettering colors 8 years 10 months ago #4539

t1nut OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 323 Thank you received: 55	Robin, that does not mean that all tenders had flat plates. I remember seeing a photo from WWII of women working on the Reading, and it showed a woman on the back of Pacific #107 with raised numbers on it like the ones on the front of the engine.
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Loco lettering colors 8 years 10 months ago #4541

t1nut OFFLINE Road Foreman of Engines Posts: 323 Thank you received: 55	After looking through Ben Bernharts book on Reading Pacifics. I found photos of the back tenders of the following engines, 108, 178, 203, 213, 216. It shows all of these with raised numbers. They probably weathered to a silverish color.
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Loco lettering colors 8 years 10 months ago #4542

Robin OFFLINE Conductor Posts: 173 Thank you received: 47	Whew! Thanks, Butch.
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Loco lettering colors 8 years 10 months ago #4543

PRSL_Bill OFFLINE Engineer Posts: 117 Thank you received: 25	I can assure you that the boiler front and tender wall numberplate has raised numbers! I have decided to paint the numbers yellow to match the rest of the lettering. It was about 10 minutes to design and 1/2 hour to print.
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