In Joe Collias' book Frisco Power on page 300 there is a photograph of caboose SLSF 813 on page 300. It looks like the coonskin herald has no black background. Is that right or are my aging eyes deceiving me? If caboose SLSF 813 had no black background for the coonskin, did other wooden cabooses escape without a black background herald? If there are any photos of these cabooses, please post them. I like caboose SLSF 109 on page 301. I was looking at it closely and the black background and the white outline does not match up! Thanks in advance for your help.
My aging eyes agree with Rick McClellan. Caboose SLSF 813 on page 300 of Frisco Power does not seem to have the black fill on the coonskin herald that caboose SLSF 109 has in Frisco Power, page 301, top. It appears that way to me because not only is the plank shading the same, but the texture of the planking appears the same within the white coonskin outline as it does on the outside of it. On the other hand, the black paint on the infill of the coonskin on caboose SLSF 109 alters the plank texture a tiny bit. It would be interesting to find another example of a coonskin treatment similar to the one on caboose SLSF 813. George
Thanks for the sanity check George. Now I can letter my caboose. What a neat find. I have looked at that book a dozen, maybe hundreds of, times and missed that detail.
