Again,
"Close, Sailor – but No Cigar" . . .
It's like John West wrote at [
ngdiscussion.net] just over a decade ago (emphasis mine)
:
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>
. . . The standard fonts are frustrating when trying
> to match to a railroad. Some years ago I was try-
> ing to find a standard font that would approximate
> what was used by the Nevada Northern, so that we
> could order some stencils to re-letter some boxcars
> we were painting. You'd find one that would be a
> good match for most of the letters and numbers,
>
but always a couple of {characters}, usually
>
numbers, wouldn't match. Darn railroads al-
> ways had to improvise
. . .
For example, here's another set of numbers with yet more slight variations on the familiar "Roman" numerals
:
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/15/2020 03:31PM by Russo Loco.