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I’ve been taking notes here. Richard and I need to meet and talk about the sets, but I will tell you what I want to see.

First Charlie Schlotthober and I have been discussing this since the idea was first proposed.

Charlie and I probably have more information on the subject than anyone out there, and in my case, I’ve lettered the real things in the case of 611, 1218 and N&W 6, usually with help, but I did all the art for them.

We would like to see all variations of 10 inch, 8 inch, 7 inch and the cabside lettering prior to 1941, if there is space and interest, I also did art on the pre-1920 lettering.

Charlie had worked up a list of tender number/capacities that we can work into ready made sets for various locomotives. We do have a number of lists on tender assignments in hand, and Charlie is working on a small book on N&W modern tenders, but that is a future project. Charlie has put together a spreadsheet on the various tender numbers and their assignments based on the sheets

We intend to have the lettering spaced for the various sizes of tenders, including canteens, as well as preset number combinations. I’d also like to have the aluminum lettering for pre 1941 passenger locomotives. I’d also include correct headlight number boards, numbers for number plates, builders plates, class plates and the other miscellaneous lettering for tanks like the Safety First, Black Smoke is Waste, Stoker slides removed... etc. etc.

Charlie and I are also talking about making a 16-32 page booklet (i.e. an Arrow-sized magazine) that will focus on positioning the lettering, oddities, and include lots of diagrams and drawings. One thing about the drawings, you have to depend on actual material for perfectly correct letter shapes.

N&W, unlike a number of other roads, did not make drawings for an alphabet or numbers in all sizes. 

https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=173063 <https://www.nwhs.org/archivesdb/detail.php?ID=173063>

An example of how detailed the NKP and other AMC roads were. 

Charlie and I both have studied this subject for many years, and both of us searched the files for such N&W drawings, and I am convinced that if such a drawing exists, it is only for very specific use or post steam era.

If someone has information they would like to share for this project, photos etc, please contact me at miller at nwhs.org <mailto:miller at nwhs.org>. We will copy what we do not have and return the original to you if requested.

Thanks for the interest

Ken Miller

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