HO Herald King Hopper Decals

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Ryan,
I believe that I have a couple extra sets of the Claytor scheme decal sets that I can part with. I'm in Arizona for the balance of the week and will check when I arrive home. Just remind me in a week or so by sending an email to arnett at nwhs.org 
As for placing the proper decals in the proper place, I submit what a friend of mine that works for NS  a few years back: "Nothing is consistent on the railroad despite what a drawing states". Nonetheless,  I would be more that happy to send you photos of my Bowser H11X series hoppers that I lettered in this scheme.
Until then, happy modeling.
Todd Arnett 


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-------- Original message --------From: NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> Date: 6/10/18  4:18 PM  (GMT-07:00) To: NW Modeling List <nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org> Subject: HO Herald King Hopper Decals 
Hello modeling group. I'm Ryan Harris and I've been modeling N&W 
equipment from afar for several years now. I got hooked on NS when I was 
in college in Georgia in the early 90s, but it wasn't long before I 
became more interested in the predecessor roads of NS. My modeling era 
is the mid to late 80s, so that puts me squarely in post-merger 
territory but I have more than my fair share of pre-merger equipment.

I'm working on a coal train based largely on the Andrew Dow book. I've 
come to the point where I want to decorate some hoppers in what I 
believe is called the Claytor scheme (seen here: 
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1959433 ) but I 
haven't had much success finding decals for these cars until now - maybe.

I found Herald King set H-55 in their alphabetic listing of decals, 
described as: "H-55 HOPPER: Blk 100 Ton (1981) Wht Decal". The 
illustrated catalog is not much help, since the images are such a low 
resolution it's impossible to make them out. Here's the image from their 
website:

https://heraldkingdecals.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/H22-232x300.jpg

It looks like the upper left image on the catalog page might be what I'm 
looking for. Can anyone confirm if Herald King H-55 is the set I'm 
looking for?

Also, another problem is I can't find any in stock anywhere. I've set up 
a saved search on ebay in case any turn up there, but I'm looking to 
letter about a dozen cars. If these are indeed the decals I'm looking 
for and anyone has a lead on where I can purchase about a dozen sets, 
I'd very much like to know.

Of course, if there is a better set that I'm unaware of I'd love to find 
out about it. I bought a couple sets from the commissary a few weeks 
ago, but those decals will work only for earlier cars.

Thanks,

Ryan Harris
Fort Worth, Texas
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