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Doug Harrop Photography • May 1, 1991
In March of 1991, Southern Pacific introduced a new logo, called "speed lettering", inspired by the stacked Rio Grande logo. It was first applied to a group of rebuilt GP40M-2s by MK in Boise, Idaho. Initially, a smaller version of the logo was applied to SP 7107-7111, later adopting a larger version with SP 7112 on April 15, 1991.
Doug was on hand to catch the first two units with the officially adopted logo leading an EUCHX train through Ogden, Utah.
In total, SP applied speed lettering to 1,035 locomotives including new acquisitions from EMD, GE, rebuilt MK, and Southern Pacific, Rio Grande, and St. Louis Southwestern repaints.
Bei den ÖBB besteht die schöne Tradition, diverse Triebfahrzeuge mit Namensschriftzügen zu versehen. Insbesondere die Mitarbeiter der HW Linz scheinen sich hier gerne zu verewigen. Die 1116.050 trägt beispielsweise auf der Lokfront den Namen "Robert". Am 09 September 2021 konnte ich den Taurus vor einem Kesselwagenzug im Waldstück zwischen Grafing und Aßling fotografieren.
ÖBB has a nice tradition of decorating various traction units with name lettering. In particular, the employees of the Linz maintenance facility seem to like to immortalize themselves here. For example, the 1116.050 bears the name "Robert" on the front of the locomotive. On 09 September 2021, I was able to photograph the Taurus in front of a tank car train in the woods between Grafing and Aßling.
from M Parker's library: "look at the rich blacks!" esteemed as the most gorgeously printed book ever (poorly photographed here), from post war Germany. Zapf did all lettering. i've forgotten the punch cutter's name. bad form.
Cutout lettering at the bottom of a portable digital signboard, mounted on a trailer and left on a street corner. The message it is currently displaying is about COVID-19 safety, such as reminding people to wear masks.
Excerpt from www.chch.com/chch-news/artists-create-what-could-be-canad...:
A group of artists have begun working towards creating what they say will be the largest mural in Canada.
The canvas is an iconic Hamilton building that is currently in development limbo.
That iconic building is Hamilton city centre on James Street and York Boulevard in the heart of the city’s downtown core.
The building was closed back in 2022 with a goal of turning it into a condo but that project was paused. With no solid timeline for that project to start back up again, the artists say the developers let them use it as a canvas.
“It’s kind of dismal looking with everything kind of shuttered… so we’re putting lipstick on a pig, but we’re just trying to make the best of a bad situation,” says Scott McDonald.
As the developers of Hamilton city centre wait for the real estate market to improve before turning it into condos, local artist Scott McDonald and dozens of other artists are giving it a facelift.
“For this weekend we have over 60 artists from around 16 different countries. They’re all kind of doing their own thing, it’s a combination of graffiti, street art, and just fine art,” McDonald says.
“It’s exciting and intimidating at the same time, you’re surrounded by world class talent, and it’s just an honour to be here and it’s inspirational to be honest,” Shipman says.
And steps away from Shipman’s, Shalak Attack’s piece will have a message.
“It’s gonna be kind of a spider woman with a nature girl beside her. We’re in the concrete jungle so I’m trying to remind people that we are still connected to nature in some way,” Shalak Attack says.
Around the corner, Christopher Bennett is going full realism.
“My roots is graffiti writing, so doing typical lettering but with this I wanted to do something special, something a little bit more,” Bennett says.
“You have to be of a certain stature, a quality that you bring, so to be a part of it is wonderful.”
Before the artists could actually come out and get to work, the entire building had to be painted black.
“So it was 250 gallons, imagine about three skids of five-gallon pales. So, there’s 16 on a skid, 48 pales or something like that. It’s a ton of paint,” Sherwin Williams told CHCH News.
“47-thousand square feet. me and about four other friends helped, sometimes it was just me… my arms are dying right now,” Scott McDonald says.
McDonald says the nearly 6 figure art project is all worth it and made possible by multiple donors and supporters like Sherwin Williams, Molotow Spray Paint Company and others.
“Thanks to everybody who has believed in my crazy vision and it’s happening,” McDonald says.
“When you have all these creative people working in the same space, that energy is just intoxicating, it’s awesome.”
Now there is of course a lot more work to do before this could be Canada’s largest mural. Artists will be here throughout the weekend.
Buy Meggazones For Coughs Colds & Catarrh
Nettle's "Tussodyne" - the cough healer 2/- per bottle 5/-
Nettle's Tonic - the best pick-me-up 1/3 per bottle 3/3 (Prices painted out)
Old painted advert in Tooting on a chemist that started trading in late Victorian times and was founded by William Nettle & still carries on today.
Some of Nettles own products are advertised here.
I have no idea what "tussodyne" means.
Sign outside an old-school tobacconist in the southern German town of Ladenburg.
The place has everything: Roman ruins, medieval half-timber houses, baroque churches, the automobile museum Dr. Carl Benz...
The problem is the town is just down the road from Heidelberg, where all the tourists throng.
Ladenburg is well worth a visit, if only to avoid the madding crowd.
The Tuscan red & gray paint scheme, with gold accents, rolled debuted on Canadian Pacific in 1949. About 10 years later, in 1960, a modified version of the paint scheme was released featuring script lettering on the long hood. Jump forward another 60 years, and CP decided to revive the paint scheme on 5 rebuilt SD70ACU's in 2019. They look very good.
CP 2816 and the Final Spike Tour needed an additional diesel due to issues with one of the FP9's on Rich Mountain, and to help with upcoming grades in Mexico. When the train arrived in Shreveport, someone noticed CP 7013 nearby and realized its paint fit in perfectly with the special. They gave it an impromptu bath and added it to the train. Freshly washed, that script lettering looks really nice.
CP DRF-43 / SD70ACU #7013
Shreveport, LA
May 24th, 2024
Scanned and traced a sketch called “They Know” . It’s part of a bigger work I’m working on right now. It is going to be a print or a painting…don’t know yet…
Old Firestone auto store, closed, under renovation, heard the sign and facade will be preserved. Miami near South Beach.
Polaroid 600
Espee Speed Lettering heritage clearly still owns its rights along the Overland Route in 2026
GSGHAS With Ex-Southern Pacific now patched 6318 leads fresh produce west of Cheyenne, WY under spring thunder showers in fine form in a very Stein-ish-style scene, with just a kiss of a Wyoming sunset. Long live the Espee and Richard Steinheimer.
March 2026.
So many reasons to love this. The #1 reason? Look at that double-f ligature!
Thank you to my Italian friend who thought I'd like to see this. You know who you are.
A study in nose lettering. This view of SD40-2s #770 and #788 shows the latter's atypical lettering placement below the nose grab irons, versus above. A couple SD40-2s received unorthodox lettering over the years; fonts, placement, etc. I'm not sure there's many images of them sitting side by side with a properly lettered unit.
We can thank Jim Shepard for chronicling history on October 11, 1985 while spending time in Minneapolis.
Mortimer Leach (1906–1975) was one of America’s leading lettering artists, and his work can be found in advertising throughout magazines and newspapers of the 1930s–60s. As an ArtCenter instructor, he taught many career letterers, a legacy that continued through the equally influential Doyald Young, and his Lettering for Advertising (1956) and Letter Design in the Graphic Arts (1960) are some of the best instructional books on the subject. At Letterform Archive we have a small grouping of his original inked boards (including tiny white-out corrections). I think they were some of the first pieces I saw when I visited Rob Saunders before there was an Archive. This week, I identified two originals that were reproduced in Lettering for Advertising: “Lockheed Constellation” and “The Bryson Lectures”.
Suddenly my bike has a new name. Lettering by Laura Serra. Painted by Elena Albertoni. Laura’s design is inspired by various Chromeography examples, especially the East German motorcycle maker, Simson.
Highsmith, Carol M.,, 1946-, photographer.
Dusk is approaching and the illumination of the neon lettering on this signature coffee-pot-shaped advertising tower for a Sapp Brothers truck stop in West Omaha, Nebraska, is starting to take effect
2021-12-26.
1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.
Notes:
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
Purchase Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2021 (DLC/PP-2021:107).
Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit Line: Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Subjects:
America--Sapp Brothers truck stops--Sapp Brothers signs--Neon signs
United States--Nebraska--Douglas County--West Omaha.
Format: Digital photographs--Color--2020-2030.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- Carol M. Highsmith Archive. (DLC) 00650024
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.69988
Call Number: LC-DIG-highsm- 69988