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Help Deciphering decals for Vaders Tie Advance Correct ones
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<blockquote data-quote="rbeach84" data-source="post: 3598937" data-attributes="member: 133149"><p>As we found with the MF decals survey, ILM'ers really liked using Microscale railroad aftermarket decal sheets. Given the verbiage expect it came from one of the freightcar, hopper car or tanker car data sheets. Of course, finding exemplars won't guarantee you'll be able to read the numbers as the printing was very small. One other possibility is one of the AMT tractor trailer kits, which often included weight data... but usually on some kind of colored background. There were 'O' gauge MS RR sheets that might be the correct size beyond the HO sheets, of which there were a lot!</p><p></p><p>Trains Magazine has a nice little explanation of these markings (which pretty much IDs them as being from a RR sheet...) at their site; check it out HERE:</p><p><a href="http://trn.trains.com/railroads/abcs-of-railroading/2006/05/freight-car-markings" target="_blank">http://trn.trains.com/railroads/abcs-of-railroading/2006/05/freight-car-markings</a></p><p></p><p>A bit more reading of the Trains article appears to point out that the second number (LD LMT) is missing it's last digit as it usually exceeded the CAPY (capacity) limit by a bit (so CAPY being 97000, the LD LMT must be '98200' not '9820'...)</p><p>Further, it is interesting that this labeling indicates the empty weight of the car is *greater* than the capacity! (113800) That is one heavy car!</p><p></p><p>Hope this helps! R/ Robert</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rbeach84, post: 3598937, member: 133149"] As we found with the MF decals survey, ILM'ers really liked using Microscale railroad aftermarket decal sheets. Given the verbiage expect it came from one of the freightcar, hopper car or tanker car data sheets. Of course, finding exemplars won't guarantee you'll be able to read the numbers as the printing was very small. One other possibility is one of the AMT tractor trailer kits, which often included weight data... but usually on some kind of colored background. There were 'O' gauge MS RR sheets that might be the correct size beyond the HO sheets, of which there were a lot! Trains Magazine has a nice little explanation of these markings (which pretty much IDs them as being from a RR sheet...) at their site; check it out HERE: [URL="http://trn.trains.com/railroads/abcs-of-railroading/2006/05/freight-car-markings"]http://trn.trains.com/railroads/abcs-of-railroading/2006/05/freight-car-markings[/URL] A bit more reading of the Trains article appears to point out that the second number (LD LMT) is missing it's last digit as it usually exceeded the CAPY (capacity) limit by a bit (so CAPY being 97000, the LD LMT must be '98200' not '9820'...) Further, it is interesting that this labeling indicates the empty weight of the car is *greater* than the capacity! (113800) That is one heavy car! Hope this helps! R/ Robert [/QUOTE]
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