I can't decide which one I prefer, so I thought I would get everyones opinion.
Which do you like more, the lettered of the logo version?
with cabooses its good to have a variety, i like the logo personally.
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Logo for sure, and an Idea
How old is the Turtle Creek? If its abit older whynot do the white logo on the red caboose and use the other color as a base on another caboose and use red lettering. It would give age to the Turtle
Just my thoughts
jw
Tjsingle wrote: with cabooses its good to have a variety, i like the logo personally.Tjsingle
I go along with the first part of Tjsingle's reply, though I'd have some wood cabeese with the lettering and save the "herald" for the steel hacks. By the way, one of the reasons I'd never model the modern era is the lack of cabeese: to me, it's not a train unless it has the "All-gone!" on the end.
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I'm going to go against the flow, here, and say lettered, but with a change: I'd move the "TURTLE CREEK" lettering above the window line, and put the "CENTRAL" in line with the center of the windows.
Those are nice cabeese, BTW.
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river_eagle,I'll lay a completely different idea on you: do both. Take a quick Google image search on cabooses, and you'll see that most caboose paint schemes that had logos also had the name of the railroad spelled out. Or at the very least, had the reporting marks. The Turtle logo does not have the RR name, just the turtle and the slogan. This would be fairly rare in caboose paint schemes not to have the RR name somewhere obvious (it's a company car, after all).
IMHO, what you might try is moving the "CLASS NE-3" to the right near the handrail (nice New Haven touch there, as well as the "C-507"...if you have the Microscale directions, look at the "Contributers" ). Also, on a side note, you should have the weight of the caboose on there somewhere.
Anyways, if you move the "CLASS NE-3" out of the way, then you can drop the "C-507" towards the sill. Why? So that you can put "TURTLE CREEK CENTRAL" under the rivet panel under the windows...straight across.
Using the magic of MS Paint, here's my idea:
Whaddya think?
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Paul, in a ironic twist of fate, these were just yesterday, New Haven Proto 1000 cabooses.
the only change made was to remove the "New Haven" lettering from between the windows, and repacle it with the TCC lettering on one and the loco on the other.
The number and caboose designation are the original factory pad printing,hence they both have the same number right now.
Paul3 wrote: river_eagle,I'll lay a completely different idea on you: do both. Take a quick Google image search on cabooses, and you'll see that most caboose paint schemes that had logos also had the name of the railroad spelled out. Or at the very least, had the reporting marks. The Turtle logo does not have the RR name, just the turtle and the slogan. This would be fairly rare in caboose paint schemes not to have the RR name somewhere obvious (it's a company car, after all).IMHO, what you might try is moving the "CLASS NE-3" to the right near the handrail (nice New Haven touch there, as well as the "C-507"...if you have the Microscale directions, look at the "Contributers" ). Also, on a side note, you should have the weight of the caboose on there somewhere.Anyways, if you move the "CLASS NE-3" out of the way, then you can drop the "C-507" towards the sill. Why? So that you can put "TURTLE CREEK CENTRAL" under the rivet panel under the windows...straight across.Using the magic of MS Paint, here's my idea:Whaddya think?Paul A. Cutler III************Weather Or No Go New Haven************
I like that, its better than just the logo.
river_eagle,Ah, well that explains it. I did not know that P1K did these in NH (since the NH didn't have Northeastern-style cabooses).
Hmm... If you want to be able to leave as much factory lettering as possible, then I would add "TCC" under the right-most window on the right side of the "logo" caboose. But that's just me.
No... Logo only. Much cleaner.
Plus, it reminds me of one of my favorites....
Mmmm.... Delicious!
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Why not one side with logo and the other side lettered?
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FWIW in railroading it's generally called a "herald" not a "logo", although logo does seem to get used more in recent years.
Many railroads would have both. Older cabooses with the RR name and no. on it, and newer ones using the herald instead. Do one with the name and weather it a bit more, and then leave the one with the herald a little cleaner indicating a recently painted car.
Although I do like Paul's idea of using both.
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wjstix wrote: FWIW in railroading it's generally called a "herald" not a "logo", although logo does seem to get used more in recent years.
Yes, I know, but the title of the thread flows better with matching "L" words