Model Railroading > Custom Decals from Highball Graphics

I recently had custom decals printed by Highball Graphics.
I would highly recommend Jim for any custom job you may want:

http://www.highballgraphics.com/Sorry.htm

He came up with the correct font for this stencil lettering quickly
and printed enough reporting marks, data and lube plates to do 52 cars
on 2 sheets! Right off Dave Olsen`s (drolsen) pictures on the rrpicturearchives
website. He even printed black squares for the lube plate backgrounds on the
oxide red cars and black lettering for the yellow ended cars. He also laid
out the artwork so the reporting marks and data could be laid in one piece.
Thanks again to Dave Olsen for shootoing these PEPX hoppers.

twl



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Those are great looking hoppers.I haven't seen PEPCO hoppers in a long time.

GRS



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Very nice!

- Jeff

Posted from iPhone

I've had custom sets made by Highball and can only say they were great!

Done when they said they would be done, mailed quickly, and the decals work flawlessly!

Mike Bannon
St Catharines, ON

Those look fantastic! I'm really glad I was able to help with the project, and I'm also glad I documented these cars, because it looks like they may have hit the end of the road. I haven't seen any in almost two years.

I realized a couple days ago that I had a few photos left that I forgot to edit - some broadsides of two hoppers:

PEPX 204:
http://drolsen.rrpicturearchives.net/rsPicture.aspx?id=570231

PEPX 654:
http://drolsen.rrpicturearchives.net/rsPicture.aspx?id=581716

Looks like you did just fine without these photos though!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Dave

PEPX 679 looks to be the last car in the 600 series.
Here`s a question for the rotary dumper experts.
Why would there be rotary couplers on both ends of the car?

twl

Double rotary end cars are used to connect cuts of single rotary end cars together, as a contingency when they separate cuts may not be pointed in the same direction. I'd have to study the PEPX roster, but say, hypothetically, you have two sets of 50 single rotary end cars, but one has the rotary ends facing forward (direction of travel), and the other has them pointing towards the rear of the train, you can put the double rotary between them so they can be run as one long, 101 car set through the dumper. I'm not sure where the black 600-series PEPX hoppers came from - whether bought new or secondhand - but I don't think PEPCO ever really ran solid train sets (if they did, it wasn't for long), so this may not have mattered to them.

Dave

The PEPX 600`s were redone at least once. There is some
footage on Youtube of an empty train and the cars have
the smaller numbers rather than the larger stencil numbers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzBD1tfaa-U

That video was from 1990. Also, if you freeze frame that video notice
the cars have Bethlehem heralds on a panel over by the lube plate.
So I would guess PEPCO got them new from Johnstown.
I also have video from 1999 of empties
on Sandpatch and a bunch of the 200 series cars are still black
with small numbers. Then in Aug. 2000 I have video of empties
at Rowlsburg and all of the 200 series cars are fresh oxide red.


tom



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