Texas Special/Meteor Ownership Lettering...

A while back there were questions and a discussion about the letterboard markings of the Texas Special and Meteor. I did some book and photo research and this is what I came up with:

Frisco/Katy/Texas Special/Meteor Ownership Lettering
--M-K-T passenger cars including heavyweights lettered for "The Texas Special" in "neon script" had "katy" in a related font on the ownership plate/board.
--M-K-T and Frisco heavyweight Pullmans lettered for "The Texas Special in "neon script" had "pullman" in a related font on the ownership plate/board.
--Frisco passenger cars including 14-4 sleepers and heavyweight lounge 1603 lettered for "The Texas Special" in "neon script" had "frisco" in a related font on the ownership plate/board.
--Frisco Meteor lightweight passenger cars lettered in Railroad Roman were delivered without ownership plate/boards. The lightweight 14-4 sleepers delivered for the Meteor had ownership plate/boards with "Pullman" in Railroad Roman added later.
--Frisco lightweight passenger cars (Except 14-4 sleepers) lettered for "The Texas Special" in "neon script" were re-lettered in 1960-63. "The Texas Special" was replaced with a large "Frisco" in Railroad Roman on the center letterboard and small "Frisco" in Railroad Roman at the end car ownership plate/boards.
--Frisco lightweight 14-4 sleepers lettered for "The Texas Special" in "neon script" were also re-lettered in 1960-63. "The Texas Special" was replaced with a large "Frisco" in Railroad Roman on the center letterboard and small "Pullman" in Railroad Roman on the end car ownership plate/boards.
--Frisco owned heavyweight Pullmans painted in the red and silver scheme had "F-R-I-S-C-O" in Railroad Roman on the large center letterboard. The cars had a smaller "Pullman" in Railroad Roman on the end car ownership plate/boards.
--PRR lightweight sleeping cars painted and lettered for "The Texas Special" in "neon script" had "pullman" in a related font on the ownership plate/boards.
--PRR lightweight sleeping cars painted and lettered for Meteor service had "Pennsylvania" in Railtoad Roman on the large center letterboard and a small "pullman" in Railroad Roman on the ownershp plate/boards.

Note: Typically, Pullman cars were marked with the train name or car owner (Pullman or the RR company) on the larger center letterboard. And the non-owner on the smaller end car letterboard

Tom G.

 

There were also at least 2 PRR cars that had "PENNSYLVANIA" in the letter boards. These were the cars asigned to the Meteor.

Paul

 

That's right, they were pictured in the Dubin More Classic Trains book.

TG

 

PENNSYLVANIA...of course. Slight typo there.

 

Doh... well, I never said I could spell... I've corrected the original post.

Paul