Hello,
I have inherited some steam engines and decals. They are mostly prototypical accurate (close enough) my only question is was valley steam lettering silver or white. Have seen lots of black and white photos but cant tell.
Perhaps the moderators should move this to the Prototype information section.
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while I’ve read that the passenger streamliners lettering was in 3-D chrome.
A good look at that here:
LV, Newark, New Jersey, 1939 by Center for Railroad Photography & Art, on Flickr
The Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum seems to have some members who are knoweledgable on details of the Lehigh Valley.
https://www.rgvrrm.org/
Perhaps contact them with your question and one of the members may help you out.
Or perhaps here:
http://lvrrhs.org/contact/index.php
This T-2 looks to be lettered in silver (aluminum)
https://www.brasstrains.com/classic/Product/Detail/052017/HO-Brass-Model-Train-Custom-Brass-NJCB-LV-Lehigh-Valley-4-8-4-Class-T-2-w-Worthington-FWH-5217
Walthers once offered O scale decals for L-V steam that were silver. But I can not say which locomotives may have been lettered this way. Maybe only passenger-assigned locos?
Good Luck, Ed