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RE: (erielack) EL 3607 -- Tri-State / ELHS project

Mike Del Vecchio wrote:

> This is exactly correct.  And too many model makers are using 
> modern wannabe 
> typefaces to try to reproduce the old stuff, rather than 
> trying to find the 
> old typeface.  Helvetica, for example, is timeless, and it is 
> not Arial.

Amen to that!


> My employer Morristown & Erie likes a typeface called Chisel, 
> which is very rare 
> and nobody has it but our Morristown office.  That's why you 
> see the road 
> numbers on the engines in one typeface, and the lettering in 
> another, and the 
> lettering on the trucks another, sort of.

Well, the lettering on your newly-repainted C424's (at least the roadname) ain't "Chisel," but I'll let that slide...

"Chisel" is actually a Microsoft typeface, which is why it's not very commonly known in the printing community.


 
> But in all of 
> the notes about 
> the 3607, I didn't see any acknowledge that the original 
> painting of the 3607 at 
> St. Louis was a Tri-State Chapter / ELHS project.  I had seen 
> the peeling 
> Conrail unit at the museum and made an offer to the curator 
> that if we bought the 
> paint, would they paint it.  He agreed, and it was done.  
> That was almost ten 
> years ago, and the paint we bought didn't live up to its 
> promotion, so it 
> weathered early.  But it's indeed nice to see that the Museum 
> repainted it.  The 
> drawings came from EMD, the lettering is what the EL used and 
> the number-board 
> numerals were for the as-delivered unit.


Very true - kudos to Tri-State and the ELHS for originally sparking this effort.

And FYI, the numberboard numbers aren't correct for ANY period of the EL. They appeared to use a generic Gothic typeface (not Arial, but not too far off) for their numberboards; I've already supplied them with the correct EL "block" numberboard typeface which they are supposed to use on this unit (let's hope!)

	- Paul

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