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Re: (erielack) DL&W Gondolas - Lettering Style
- Subject: Re: (erielack) DL&W Gondolas - Lettering Style
- From: Pat_McKnight_@_nps.gov
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:03:47 -0400
Bill and all,
We actually have the DL&W Gondola 68528 at Steamtown. I wrote a report on
it, including builders photos of this style gondola. Send me your snail
mail address and I will send a copy your way. Our gon is currently in
Conrail colors, but you can see the E-L colors bleeding through, and it was
DL&W before that.
It is a really interesting piece.
Patrick McKnight
Historian/Archivist
Steamtown NHS
570-340-5193
We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but
to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future
possible.-Alan Bloom
"William E. Botkin"
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Please respond to
"William E. Botkin"
Folks,
I am trying to do some models of DL&W gons and have found precious few
photos including the Morning Sun Books (my usual source). I am using a
couple of Proto 2000 52-foot mill gons to model the 52 foot DL&W series
68500-68974, but can't find any photos to show how they were lettered.
Also going to kit-bash some Athearn 40 foot cement container gons to
replicate the DL&W cement gons using the MR article in the Jan 1995 issue
by Jim Hertzog on the LV versions as a basis.
Some of the photos I have found seem to show the lettering (DL&W) in a
san-serif style with the square "Road of Anthracite" on the side. None
show "Lackawanna" spelled out on the side of the gons. The san-serif
lettering style is strange as other than the RS3s, I haven't seen that used
before by the Lackawanna.
If anyone has any photos or information on DL&W gon lettering, I would
appreciate it!
Thanks.
Bill Botkin
Centennial, CO
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