Re: Betting on the numbers . . .

dave2-8-0 Wrote (approximately):
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> OK guys, I'll say again . . .  The mission that I
> excepted {accepted} was to cut and apply the
> new Matt vinyl, in as close a match as I could
> to match the style & size of 168 that was well
> researched.

Apparently NOT "well researched", as the following matched pair of 'Then and Now' photos clearly illustrates some obvious discrepancies:


>The intent was to create a matched pair of time
> period D. & R. G. locomotives. The intent was
> for the iron horse event to have a matched pair.

"The best laid plans of Mice and Men aft gang aglee . . . " — Robert Burns.

"Two Wrongs don't make a Right." — Anon.

> Since No one alive has seen the 1919 paint set.
> And there are no known photos of 425, and we
> do know that there was no set of stencils with a
> given spacing and that the spacing is known to
> be variable among locos of the time period, and
> tenders were not of a uniform size even among
> the same classes and often swapped out.

The size of the tenders should have nothing to do with it.  Even the shortest tenders had plenty of room for three digits, centered and properly spaced out — as on all of the old photos of D&RG locos I've ever seen, no matter what number they carried.

> Promise be made here in Public.  Someone show
> me a clear photo of #425's number set that shows
> a different spacing, and I will gladly re-letter her to
> that correction . . .


A pretty safe bet, Dave -

Considering that "there are no known photos of 425" -

But there ARE at least two known photos of #168 in the Victorian post-Edwardian era (circa 1921, a century or so ago and roughly 20 years after the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the 'Victorian" age) — the fairly clear view of the engineer's side on the left above, and the following dim view of the fireman's side:


IIRC, it shouldn't be too difficult to obtain much clearer, larger and higher-resolution copies of both of the above photos for use (along with the cab numbers on your avatar) in re-numbering #168's tender to a more histörically correct spaced-out appearance, and then – in order to have a correctly matched pair – re-numbering "425" as well.    

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p.s.  At the very least, use a clearer copy of the photo at the top left as a guide to correcting the numbering on #168's tender, and Russo's example at the lower right on [ngdiscussion.net] to re-do "425".  The latter isn't quite accurate, but at least the typeface is close and the spacing is balanced.  Just don't fall prey to his dark side and paint the boiler jacket Moffat Green . . .    



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/01/2021 11:49AM by Johnson Barr.