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Reading Railroad Decals?
Posted by laz 57 on Sunday, February 12, 2012 10:14 AM

Hi GUYZ,

  Have anyone out their ever repaint a locomotive and changed the decals?  I have a D&H Camelback and want to change it to the READING RR.  Any hints would be appriciated.

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Posted by teledoc on Sunday, February 12, 2012 4:37 PM

I checked online, and found one website that has Reading Railroad decals for "O" gauge at WWW.MICROSCALE.COM.   This may be what you are looking for to convert your Camelback.  As far as painting, if that is what you decide to do, I would strip the shell in "Castrol- Super Clean" at full strength for a few hours.  It will not hurt the shell at all, and will remove any existing paint.  Soak in Isopropyl Alcohol, no other types of alcohol, and rinse in warm water and let dry.  Prime it, and paint the color you want.

Good luck,

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Posted by laz 57 on Sunday, February 12, 2012 5:32 PM

TELEDOC,

  Thank you for the site.  Unfortunatly O scale was for diesels and not locos. Thanks for the advice on stripping the old paint.

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Posted by phillyreading on Monday, February 13, 2012 6:30 AM
How about using S scale decals? They would be a little smaller if that is what you need. The reason I say this is because I have used H.O. scale figuires inside an 027 passenger car because O scale was way to big to fit.
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Posted by rtraincollector on Monday, February 13, 2012 1:33 PM

Hey your close enough why don't you go down and check out what they have from what I have seen there the engines are basicly a greyish black with white decals heres there address

The Reading Railroad Heritage Museum is located at 500 South Third Street in Hamburg, PA, approximately 80 miles northwest of Philadelphia.

and heres there web page http://www.readingrailroad.org/index.shtml

now I have the wrong computor here and when I get my other back tomorrow what I had on it may be gone so I may need to start over on my favorites but there is a guy on ebay that offers different decals and I believe if I read his auction right he will do custom decals

you can search decals under O scale trains on ebay and maybe contact a couple of those sellers and see if they do custome decals and how much.

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Posted by teledoc on Friday, February 17, 2012 4:58 PM

Hi Laz,

As mentioned in a reply by rtraincollector, you may want to try www.lbrenterprisesllc.com  for custom decals.  They offer different roadnames and cab numbers, and state that they will or can custom make a decal.  That may be another option to try.

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Posted by rtraincollector on Saturday, February 18, 2012 11:28 AM

Laz sent you a couple of emails for the rest the short and skinny of it there is a seller on ebay that will do custom lettering/numbers a water slide type of decal. his ebay name is c13092 not sure if that is a link or just the color it came. he states about 40% of his decals are from custom work

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Posted by laz 57 on Saturday, February 18, 2012 3:13 PM

Thank YOU GUYZ,

  I contacted DAVE there and he said if I get him the size of the lettering and give him a pic he would gladly do it.  Thanks again gonna have to take some pics for him.

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Posted by rtraincollector on Sunday, February 19, 2012 10:02 AM

Here is his non-ebay website http://www.lbrenterprisesllc.com/contact.html

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