NEW DECALS, SIGNS AND FINISHING
PRODUCTS
Florida East Coast Railway Society
offers a nice selection of HO and N scale
decals for FEC locomotives, freight cars, and passenger equip-
ment. An example is the set shown above for 1930s-era mark-
ings for FEC 20001-20200 series ventilated boxcars the road
operated between 1924 and 1945.
New HO scale let-
tering sets from
Jerry Glow Decals
) include
Chicago Great
Western 1930s-era
AAR steel boxcar,
Chicago & Eastern Illinois single-sheathed boxcar (Accurail
7200 series), and Texas & Pacific AAR 1937 steel boxcar.
News column - 21
Mask Island Decals
has introduced
several new HO scale
wet decals including
Savannah & Atlanta 40' boxcar (post Southern merger), ATSF
40' Bx37/57 class boxcars, Southern 89' ACF flat car, Southern
40' double-door boxcar with cushion underframe, Florida East
Coast 70-ton twin-bay covered hopper, The Rock enclosed auto
rack car, and ACL 50' boxcar as seen above. Pricing and order-
ing information can be viewed at the above website.
Microscale Industries
) has released a revised
lettering set for PFE 40' wood and steel ice refrigerator cars
painted between June 1950 and April 1960 (above left).
According to Dick Harley, who would lead the research, the art
was completely redrawn using PFE, UP, and SP drawings for the
medallions and all the lettering shapes and sizes. All lettering
MRH-Aug 2013
