A while back I commented on my spring trip to my alma mater, the P&PSSW, and that whilst there I spent quite a bit of time with Tom Lennon and Ken Zieska reviewing Tom's stock of decals to see what might be suitable for relettering SHS, AM, and PRS hoppers to obtain north-central roadnames that these manufacturers have not (yet) produced.
Tom has now documented in more detail what he has available for these north-central railroads. He also has many other decals available. See list at http://www.s-scaletrains.com/milepost169/index.html Was there ever a pictorial listing of Enhorning decals? I expect that Tom would greatly appreciate having such a list, it would make it much easier for us and Tom to identify what we want from his stock. CN SH-275 is Canadien National 3 and 4-bay cylindrical hoppers. The PRS kit will make one style of these, and if the Canadian kit for the true cylindrical ever comes out, they'll work for it as well. Only 2 sets in stock. Burlington Northern SH-186 Black lettering for grey, 2-bay, cylindrical and PS hoppers. Just one set left. SH-274 White lettering for 70 and 100 ton covered hoppers like the airslides and cylindricals. 3 sets left. CB&Q SH-206 is for covered hoppers, painted tuscan red. The lettering is white, with a black and white herald, and "Every-Where West" in script. There is a photo on one of the websites for car 180070, a 2-bay with it's roof removed. The "Burlington Bulletin, No. 20" indicates that the same scheme was appliedto the first 30 3-bay PS2-CD's received. I have 3 sets left. [According to a member of the Steam Freight e-mail list "85000-85014 were delivered in box car red paint with RR Roman lettering and a stenciled herald. I don't know of any photos." - Ted] SH-209 contains the red lettering scheme, with a red/black/white rectangular herald. This scheme was offered by SHS on their 3-bay cars. I don't know if the AM car is correct, or if it has been offered. The decals, with appropriate red data sets, could be used for the 2 and 3-bay cylindricals. Either can be made from the Pacific Rail kit. I have just 2 sets left. Milwaukee Road Set SH-253 will work well on the PS2 from either SHS or AM. I have 4 complete sets, plus I have 10 sets of black roadnames that could be used to re-decorate a pre-printed car like the M&StL cars. The modeler would have to re-number it and would have to find an alternative reporting mark set for the "MILW". Could use black dry transfer letters easily. NP Looking at set SH-265 NP covered hoppers, it looks like they'll work for either 2 or 3-bay PS cars like the SHS version. I have 2 sets complete, and 7 sets without data suitable for re-lettering the M&StL cars. I found photos on the Fallen Flags and the Freight Cars site you sent me earlier. [There is also lettering in this set that looks correct for the AM covered hopper. - Ted] SOO LINE SH-200 that will give you a good start on the 3-bay PS series (75,000 number series?) 5 sets in stock. SH-249 for the freight car red 2-bay PS cars with white lettering. Just 2 sets available. SH-250 same as 249 but the grey car with black lettering. 4 sets. SH317Grey hopper with black lettering. Has the slanted parallelogram shaped SOO herald. 5 sets. Regards, Tom -- Ted Larson If a man is alone in a forest, is he still wrong? Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
