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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by M636C I wasn't that happy with what I could read on the side of the model, but it is likely at the period that Loewy would have used a then "modern" or art deco font that did not reproduce well in the particular photo due to reflections on the model and the camera angle. But can anyone think of any other operator that would bother with such an extreme steam locomotive that also had a long single word road name, apparently ending in "A". The big numbers on the nose and the light colour (certainly not PRR "dark green") were used on several Loewy "T-1" styling studies. M636C [/quote] I think you "nailed" it. Pennsylvania. I have a good deal of experience working with "lossy" types of image compression, and the photo looks like it was at one time compressed to a *.jpg format (that is murder on text) and then reduced the palette to less than 256 colors via a *.gif format. Looking at what we have been seeing as "T"s under supermagnification, the gray shading used on the first is consistent with what I have seen used to compress "Y"s on other graphics, and the second "T" appears consistent with what could very well be a "V" SO, combining that with the A's and I's that appear obvious...I think you've got it The only remaining shred of a doubt, is that the characters that need to be N's are not at all consistent, which (given the other arguments about the needed wealth of a potential customer) I think can safely be written off to the quality of the original, or a flaw in the initial digitizing process. Now, if I just knew something about the story behind the mock up [:)]
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