Fonts

[nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org]

Richard Shell can and probably will answer this one, but numberboard 
numbers from the 1970s are a specialized style number, they are 
numbers, generally stamped out of plastic, and glued to a white lexan 
background board.

I have to assume that you are talking about the 1728 after it was low 
nosed, the numbers on the low nose end numberboards are the standard 
style numbers. To the best of my knowledge, they are not a conventional 
font, but a design used almost exclusively for this purpose. I do not 
know if the numbers are a stock item that the railroad ordered from a 
supplier, I'd suspect so. I know they were assembled in Roanoke, and 
sometimes the boards were kind of sloppy, I have at least one that has 
one number or the other considerably lower than a straight line.

I may be speaking out of turn here, but as I recall, the numberboard 
numbers were what started Richard into Shellscale Decals, he could not 
find the correct numbers for modeling, so he did the research, had the 
sets made, and began to sell them himself. He has correct number sets 
for both white numbers on black, and black numbers on white.

Ken Miller
On May 3, 2006, at 5:43 PM, nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org wrote:


> Black.  The 1728 low short hood SD45.  What I'm trying

> to duplicate is the number boards.

> J.T.McCutcheon

>

> --- nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org wrote:

>

>> --- nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org wrote:

>>

>>> Can someone in this group tell me which fonts are

>>> used

>>> by N&W on the diesels, i.e. SD-45 1728?

>>> TIA

>>> J. McCutcheon