Alco S-2 SLSF 290-297 - Paint Schemes And Lettering Type Face Or Font Styles

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  1. patrick

    patrick Guest

    SLSF 291

    ALCo S2 Number 291. Frisco file photo from the Western Historical Manuscript Collection.

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  2. meteor910

    meteor910 2009 Engineer of the Year Staff Member Frisco.org Supporter

    Did any of the ALCo S-2s ever receive the later style FRISCO lettering & numbers?

    I don't know what to call the lettering type set or font style used on the EMD, Baldwin and F-M diesel switchers.

    Ken
    Meteor910
     
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  3. yardmaster

    yardmaster Administrator Staff Member Administrator Frisco.org Supporter

    Re: 290-297 (Lettering Styles)

    Ken,

    Just saw this post from a while back.

    I checked the Springfield-Greene County Library collection on line and no S-2 photos there.

    Mike Condren has a "Paint Shop" column under construction his website. Thanks, Mike! He references scheme FR-S4d, applied to NW2s and S-2s and using "Roman" lettering.

    The S-2s were actually delivered in FR-S4e, which had the painted coonskin with unit number.

    Interesting, the Fallen Flags website has a solitary photo of an S-2 SLSF 294. Unknown photographer, in 1967 at Birmingham in the Roman lettering.

    http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/slsf/slsf294.jpg

    I am wanting to think I have seen this photo elsewhere?
     
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  4. klrwhizkid

    klrwhizkid Administrator Staff Member Administrator Frisco.org Supporter

    I was just looking at pictures of Alco S-2 locomotives on the internet.

    I noticed that New York, Susquehanna & Western (NYSW) S-2s shared virtually the same paint scheme as the old Northeast Oklahoma (NEO) Railroad S-2s

    These units ended up as SLSF 295, 296, 297 and 298. The first 3 units were Alco S-2s and the last was an Alco S-4.

    Take a look at images taken from the Frisco Archive and the RRPicturesArchive.

    SLSF #296 Alco S2 ex-NEO-704-St-Louis-MO-10-67-by-Golden-Spike-Productions.jpg

    NYSW #206 Alco S2 Binghamton yard 06-18-1988.jpg
     
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  5. WindsorSpring

    WindsorSpring Member

    That is an amazing similarity.

    I wonder if there is a reason other than it looks fairly good.

    Could there have been someone who worked for both NEO and NYS&W that influenced the paint schemes?
     
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  6. Coonskin

    Coonskin Member

    More likely that is a standard ALCo "catalog" paint scheme that ALCo offered that both railroads happened to choose.

    EMD also offered "catalog" paint schemes.
     
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  7. klrwhizkid

    klrwhizkid Administrator Staff Member Administrator Frisco.org Supporter

    There are subtle variances if one looks closely but I think Andre has the most likely answer.
     

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