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SCL Passenger Car Lettering Summary ACL & SAL HS HO Scale Seaboard Coast Line Streamlined Passenger Car Decals and Lettering Summary Revised 12/05/2020 by W. Jim Langston Contributors: All Decal Artwork: Donnie Dixon Primary Research & Production: Paul Faulk Detailed Research, Name Selection, Roster, Decal Layout and Lettering Summary: W. Jim Langston Decals were printed for the Society by Microscale C&O Lettering: Courtesy of Tod Hanger, Chairman of the Board C&O Historical Society Thanks Tod! This document is intended to help you make use of the Society’s two SCL Lightweight Passenger Car decal sets. You will also find in the Product Information page a roster of SCL’s lightweight passenger cars cross referenced to the decal sets. This will help you find the car names on each set. Set D-69 is the primary set and will cover many cars and provides heralds and standard letter board lettering. One exotic item in this set is the SEABOARD COAST LINE patch lettering applied to UP 11 double bedroom sleepers leased during the December to April 69-70 a 70-71 winter seasons (it was not applied in earlier seasons). UP Star Vale is known to have operated on Amtrak in 1971 and into 1972 with this lettering still in place before Amtrak repainted the car in 6/72! Set D-95 provides all other car names, sleeper numbers and more numbers! The exotic item in this set is the lettering to do the five 11 double bedroom sleepers acquired from Chesapeake and Ohio in 1969- 1970, including the stainless-steel letter boards. Please note that in order to simplify and reduce the cost of printing there are no film borders to the names, numbers etc. So, you will need to use an X-Acto knife and strait edge to cut out the desired pieces. This printing format also allowed us to maximize the content. Between the two sets we think we covered every car name (we did find at least one typo, sorry) and number series. Any numbered car may be done by combining no more than two pairs of numbers from set D-95 and there are many representative complete four-digit car numbers also provided on both sets. With set D-69 some numbers may need three pieces. In the case of the sleepers with their small four-digit numbers, each one is provided intact in set D-95 (yes, you may need a magnifying glass). Donnie Dixon did a great job on the artwork for these sets as did Microscale in printing them. Oddly, when Microscale designed and printed their own SCL passenger car set in the last couple of years they forgot to call us! We would have helped them improve their general market set. If you are a member you can find several presentations in our Members Only page at www.aclsal.org on SCL passenger cars and passenger service that will be of help as well. SCL ran some great trains right up until Amtrak and they ran them right. “…The Passenger Trains Last Friend”…… Fred Frailey on SCL in his excellent book “Twilight of the Great Trains”. Good luck and have fun! Contact us if you have any questions or additional information on SCL lightweight passenger cars. Basic SCL Passenger Car Lettering Diagram – From Rapido Trains, with permission • This is the scheme as of July 1, 1967. Note – drawing has slanted road numbers used on only a few cars (this number format is not provided for in our decal sets). • As this is a coach, position of PULLMAN and HAMBURG lettering is not marked, nor is the ACI tags added later. • Positioning of heralds can vary from car series to series, and even within a series. • As the saying goes, it is best to have a dated photo of the car you want to decal to get it right! ACL & SAL HS Microscale SCL Passenger Set #1 D-69 – provides enough material to do 3 SCL cars, and one leased UP sleeper (exclusive of UP names and numbers, for UP car names and numbers, use Microscale sets 87-635 or 87-630). There are enough sleeper names of correct type and former owner mix, to do a Silver Star, Silver Meteor, Champion and Florida Special if some RFP and PRR sleepers added (decals not included). ACL & SAL HS Microscale SCL Passenger Set #2 D-95 – supplements Set #1. It provides no heralds or standard letterboard lettering (use Set #1 or Microscale set 87-1380) but provides the following: all other sleeper names (all in one piece), stainless steel letterboards (SCL road name and Hamburg variations and number variations) to do up to two ex-C&O 11 DB sleepers, C&O script car names and numbers, all sleeper numbers in one piece, and number jumble where any 4-digit number can be made from just two pieces, plus additional “one piece” numbers. Please advise of any typos you find; we found Sun Ray printed as Sun Fay (sorry; but there is “R”’s to fix this). Please let us know of any other errors etc. SCL Passenger Lettering Chronology July 1, 1967 – Basic Standard Scheme - Except as noted, all SCL streamlined passenger cars follow this basic lettering plan, applied as shopped: o Body. Most cars had bare stainless-steel bodies with fluting. Some ex-C&O, and FEC cars had flat regular steel above the belt rail, this was painted a silver-grey. The four ex-NKP coaches purchased by ACL had flat sides above the belt rail, stainless steel from the belt rail to the letterboard, and steel for the letterboard. On two of these cars the letterboard was painted silver-grey while the flat stainless steel below it remained unpainted; the other two, ACL 260 and 263, were not re- lettered for SCL. o Under-body and trucks, painted black. o Roof painted black on most cars (this was actually a black cement/paint that also helped seal the roof). Not all cars had this. o Slanted SEABOARD COAST LINE 6” tall in letterboard in special font. On former Seaboard cars, this required extending the letterboard to 35’ in length. o SCL herald, white background, black lettering and circles, and red SCL logo, on metal disks, 24” in diameter, 4 heralds in total, centered in window pier panel at each end of car. Check photos of your car to verify placement in relation to end of pier, belt rail and adjacent windows. A couple cars may have had red lettering around the circle (we have not done that possible variation). o Car numbers for coaches, diners, baggage-dorms, and taverns, in new SCL style, 5” tall; sleepers, car names using ACL format, 5” tall lettering, PULLMAN 3 inches tall on all four corner letterboards. ACL diners lost their ACL car names in favor of numbers, therefore none of the ACL diner names are provided. o Variation 1: First few cars had slanted numbers. These numbers are not provided for in the sets as we do not have good reference material for them. o Variation 2: The three ex-SAL 5 double bedroom sun lounge sleepers were quickly renamed in the “sun series”, with their SEABOARD lettering intact for some time while waiting for the longer letterboards and SCL heralds. This was done to re-assign their Beach names to the ex-SAL mountain series 6 double bedroom lounge cars and avoid conflict with the ex-ACL Beach series 6 double bedroom sleeper lounges. No photos have been found of the ex-mountain cars with SCL name and SAL lettering. Given there was no name/type “conflict” with this group, it is likely there was no rush to rename those cars until completely re-lettered From 1967 - ACI Tag addition • Starting in 1967 per FRA requirement, KarTrak ACI bar code tags were to be added to all railway equipment, including passenger cars. This was a slow multi-year process and not all cars may have got them. They were common by 1970/71. o This was located to the right end on each side of the car, on the lower part of the window pier panel, aligned as close as possible above the inboard axle. Check actual photos for individual placements on cars; there were specific areas these were to be placed on all cars (and areas not to be placed). Microscale set MC- 4280 provides these tags. From July 1969 – Replacement of PULLMAN with HAMBURG on sleepers • From July 1969 on, all SCL sleepers were sold to, and then leased back from, Hamburg Industries, a car shop in North Augusta, SC (now a TTX Corp. facility). This arrangement replaced some of the function of the Pullman Company which leased the cars from SCL, and which ceased operations in June of 1969. Pullman had maintained the sleepers, and provided the porters, and in return collected a portion of the revenue. Hamburg provided the maintenance services like Pullman, the porters transferred to SCL. o HAMBURG, 3” high, replaced Pullman on all four corner letterboards. o Variation: It appears that on the three ex-C&O 11 double bedroom sleepers acquired in September 1969 that they were lettered HAMBURG INDUSTRIES, INC. on all four corners. This “full” lettering also appeared on some, but not all, of the ex-B&O 16-4 sleepers and on perhaps one or more of the ex-B&O dome sleepers. The two ex-C&O 11 DB sleepers acquired in March 1970 had only HAMBURG. Second half 1969 - S and C letter variation in letterboard • During the second half of 1969 some cars received SEABOARD COAST LINE lettering on their letterboards where the S and C flattened rather than curled at their tips.
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