Matt Forsyth asked about lettering EL black F units.
After reviewing several books, the EL in Color series, Volume 4, Erie
Lackawanna Story and EL Eastend, it seems that the offical paint
orginally was the word Erie-Lackawanna spelled out, but few F or FA
units where done up this way, most got the yellow EL diamond on the
side instead. I have done up several Athearn F-7 units using
Micro-Scale #87-0016 deal sets. These had the yellow bib for the nose
and the yellow striping, numbers and EL diamond. For the black nose
diamond I used the one from Accu-Cals 582H Erie & EL early F unit
set. Mico-Scale also has a set of decals for EL hood units that has a
black nose diamond in it also. I do not have a set on hand at this
time to look up the number.
Bob Stafford
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