Re: 1902 coal car lettering details

Posted by Jeff Young on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/1902-coal-car-lettering-details-tp3705p3776.html

This made me return to the original Idaho Springs picture in this thread, to see if the road number is under the box herald there. And while I think the answer is still “no”, I did notice that there’s a lot more detail visible on the sill than I thought:

The length of the lettering in the left section suggests “Colorado”, and in the centre there is a gap between “&” and what follows, but what follows appears to be longer than the “Sou” which usually goes with the ampersand. The gap in the right section is only slightly left of the middle, with what appears to be the entire road number.

But what's more, the “new” Idaho Springs picture appears to show the same.

The “normal” style is:

    ||          || Colorado ||  &   Sou || thern  42 || 46       ||

The middle car in the original Idaho Springs shot, and the 1902 car in the new Idaho Springs shot appear to be:

    ||          || Colorado || &  South || ern  4246 ||          ||