Fonts

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Thanks to all for the info.  I believe I have found a
font "Gill Sans" that will work.
J. T. McCutcheon

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


> 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

> 

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