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Brian Norden

January 04, 2010 10:50PM

Registered: 16 years ago
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Good idea.

For years railroads used stencils or pounce patters -- not printers fonts.

Only some of the more modern designs have the railroads used printers fonts to develop lettering -- like Santa Fe using "Cooper Black" when they went to the big lettering on the side of the diesels.

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I could use some lettering help here	John Cole	January 04, 2010 07:34AM
Re: I need some help here	Dick Bell	January 04, 2010 08:21AM
Re: I need some help here	rdmstr	January 04, 2010 10:41AM
Re: I need some help here	Brian Norden	January 04, 2010 10:50PM
Re: I need some help here	Philosopher	January 06, 2010 11:47AM
Re: I need some help here	Russo Loco	January 07, 2010 02:25PM
Re: I need some help here	Fritz Klinke	January 08, 2010 06:12PM
Re: Typographic Help	Russo Loco	January 09, 2010 01:10PM

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