Do you mean your collection of freight cars?
-Kevin
If your field color (the colour you paint the body) is blue, your only choices for lettering are white or yellow. Any other colour choice will not “pop” as strong.
If you want a colour for lettering (red, black, or green), you will need to put a white or yellow background behind it.
-Kevin
The colours, red, white, and blue are fine, but I would strongly advise against using the graphics or image of the Georgia State Flag for anything, because it is just the First National Flag of the Confederate States of America with a Georgia seal added.
I don’t even have any confederate flags in my American Civil War military miniatures.
First National Flag of the Confederate States:
-Kevin
by fleet, i meant locomotives… i’m thinking of a mixture of steam locomotives and diesel locomotives
I was going to name a railroad the G & D with the slogan the best GD railroad ever!
It would have to be really, really, really good to wear that title. But I’d love to see you try, and I suspect so would John Allen…
I have a class 1 called the Allegheny that follows PRR practice and a short line the Cumberland Valley that uses central of Vermont decals including the script CV. For Georgia I would consider using Deliverance with a canoe under the name
… Or perhaps a banjo? [}:)]
Slogan “We paddle faster” or “We know how to call the tune” or perhaps even a hog with “Sooo-eeee-t service!”
It might not apply to everyone who creates their own freelanced railroad, but another consideration to keep in mind is the lettering required to decorate your locomotives and cars.
Many years ago, when I decided to create a freelanced railroad to interchange with both the CNR and the TH&B (both being real railroads in my hometown, but represented only by staging tracks on my layout) I created the Elora Gorge & Eastern. The Elora Gorge is a scenic area on the Grand River, which eventually empties into Lake Erie in southern Ontario. I added the “Eastern” to make it a little more “railroady”.
Looking through my all-time roster of EG&E locomotives, there were 47 diesels, most with the roadname spelled out using Champ alphabet sets. A couple of examples…
…and in-colour…
The lettering on this one was done using dry transfers as a masking device: paint the whole loco yellow, add the lettering and masking for the striping, then paint the green and black areas. When dry, use bits of masking tape to lift-off the dry transfers, revealing the yellow lettering, and remove the masking tape to show the striping…
On this one, the black outline striping was done with decals for a CNR loco, while the lettering is from a C-D-S dry transfer alphabet set in black…