As I suspected. I hadn't thought about OO, but that is an obvious conclusion;
ScaleCraft, one of the principal manufacturers of OO, however, was an early
adopter
of decal lettering. You are right about the quality of printing on card car
sides--it is excellent, as a rule. Printing technology had advanced as far it
could go before
electronics entered the picture, and lithography for both paper and tinplate
was highly-detailed. When pre-printed wood or metal sides appeared after WWII
they
were mostly silk-screened, which did not permit the same level of detail.
The embossing for wood siding or rivet detail for steel was also facilitated by
the old hot=type process--but not with modern laser print.
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
> I have seen the paper sides on eBay and even won a pair just to try them out.
> I am looking for something different. The old screen printing (?), to my
> eye, looks more like a painted car then color laser or offset printing. I
> don't believe the eBay seller embosses his sides as you find on some of the
> better cardstock.
>
> Jace - to add to your list. There were a fair amount of cardstock sides in
> OO scale before and just after the war. I believe they were produced by
> Cleveland under the Champion brand. Maybe it's the slightly smaller scale
> but I've got some from the 30's that until you pick them up and look closely
> you would never know they were paper. The lettering is crisp and more or
> less complete for their day unlike the later wood sides that tend to lack
> dimensional data etc. In some ways, I wish paper had stayed around longer as
> a more detailed alternative to the stamp printed wood or metal kits.
>
> Chris Borgmeyer
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