I wonder where you heard the 1936 date from David?
We've had discussions about the date when the stencil paint changed on this
list a few times over the years, and as far as I can tell our knowledge has
increased pretty much in step with Jeff's research. The earlier dates have
been tossed around by more than one contributor and until research showed
they were wrong, it made for interesting discussion.
I don't suppose incorrect information comes from no where - it seems to me
there must be some "sources" out there that are outdated and incorrect, but
continuing to lead people astray. Since it does no one any favours to have
the incorrect information repeated and perpetuated, I think it would be
interesting to actually identify the source of misinformation and try to
deal with it.
We've seen more than one list of book corrections on this and other lists
over the years. This seems to be another place where identifying the source
and posting a correction to it would be helpful.
Rob Kirkham
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From: "David HILL" <techill@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 9:03 AM
To: <cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [cpsig] Kettle Valley Decals
Thats interesting about the change in CPR lettering I had heard the 1936 figure thinking it was a depression austerity move . i AM BUILDING A GROVE CLASS SLEEPER FROM Norwest Models right now . I will coat some Black Cat Golld decals and use them then hear all the comments at our train club lol. thanks Jeff for the infro DAVID HILL
--- On Mon, 8/17/09, jpinchbeck@xxxxxxxxxx <jpinchbeck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: jpinchbeck@xxxxxxxxxx <jpinchbeck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [cpsig] Kettle Valley Decals
To: cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Received: Monday, August 17, 2009, 3:10 PM
Old decals can be renewed by spraying a very light coat of Microsoft liquid decal over top. Thin liquid decal 50/50 with Accupaint thinner or Testors metalizer paint thinner before spraying. The same trick works well to strengthen Black Cat decals and stop them from tearing.
The idea that the CPR switched to gold paint in the mid-1930's is completely false. The switch to gold-yellow paint happened in 1950. Accrording to Canadian Pacific Office of General Accounting car construction reports, the last revenue cars built new with gold leaf lettering was the first order of 5 GROVE sleepers in early 1949.
Jeff
