Label: The devil in the details

That's right, the omscaler has been working on the details. “What details?” you may wonder. Well, what I did was compile a list of freight car reporting marks series. A rather extensive list by the way. I did use some abbreviations to ease the task of course. Real railroads, they were large, had thousands of rail cars. The reporting marks were required by law. They were simple identifying letters and numbers for each car. The minimum required reporting were the railroad's initials and the individual car number. These were required to be placed in a specific place. Some railroads had just these reporting marks. Others had logo's, the railroad's motto, i.e., Ship it on the Frisco!, Etc. some went so far as have advertising or a blurb for the railroad's name passenger trains, “The Broadway Limited”, for example. The Santa Fe had a stylized partial route map with popular passenger destinations featured. Many variations on the rail cars appeared. So for right now, we have just the basics. Further details will be posted. Omscaler