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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
Steps away from the previous photo, we see two South Shore GP38-2's parked at the east end of Burnham Yard. CSS 2010 retains its LIRC lettering...for now.
Burnham, IL
Photo by John Eagan
Old Firestone auto store, closed, under renovation, heard the sign and facade will be preserved. Miami near South Beach.
Polaroid 600
I've done two holiday cards this year!
Anyone else finding it hard to put a positive spin on this holiday time?
Otra excelente noche de graffiti con mis buenos panas: Boders, Sure, Atem, Harock y Shortek.
Dedicada a OneSak (Caracas).
Av. Las Delicias, Maracay, Venezuela 2012.
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.
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”.
From thedailylumenbox.com Adox CMS 20II shot at ISO 12 with Voigtlander (Cosina) 21mm Color Skopar on Leica Ic. Developed in Adox Adotech IV for 10 minutes at 74° F.
So we thought we'd made a good purchase on a couple of ex-UP SD70s. But considering all the emissions requirements and the extra money they'd cost us to operate yearly, and the fact that the Lake States Railway wanted to do some horse trading, we let the 70s go to them in a trade for a couple SD40s. We put them in service upon arrival, but repainting is far down the list of priorities right now. So I came up with a lettering plan to incorporate into the Lake State's blue and grey paint scheme. This is the result and it should work for a while. We've also had many compliments on the layout so everyone's happy until we can eventually break open the IN black and yellow paint cans.
Illustrations compiled from Neon Signs and Cold-Cathode Lighting, by Samuel C. Miller, Tubelite Co., 2nd Edition, 1963 (1st Edition, 1935). Collection of Letterform Archive.
I assume this to be the most comprehensive technical manual on neon ever published. Subsequent reprints are easy to track down and it makes a great companion to Neon: A Light History, by Dydia DeLyser and Paul Greenstein, which was just released last month.
Fehler bitte melden. Ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob alle Angaben richtig sind.
Please displaying errors. I am not shure if all given informations are correct.
My wife’s great grandfather’s “Lettering for pen and brush” manual, the cover of which is nearly obliterated with “practice” or possibly “accidents”. I’ll be sure to post a shot of the entire cover in the near future. It’s quite the work of art.