Help finding a font for the Rock Island

[MadMike1024]

Meaning nothing, does anyone have the font (or know what it is) that the Rock used for the "The Rocket" label on their locos?

[Kali]

Have you got a half decent pic? there are font sites with font identifiers you can feed pics into.

[MadMike1024]

Have you got a half decent pic? there are font sites with font identifiers you can feed pics into.

I haven't found one as yet... lots of oblique shots. I'll keep looking. The 'C' looks like a pacman character.

[Kali]

Still a bit squished up I think, was extracted from an oblique shot. What an awesome livery :)

And I made a photoshop shape out of it, but I have no idea how to turn that into anything useful for someone without photoshop.

[MadMike1024]

What you gave me will work, thanks... GIMP does work with .PSD files. It's gonna be an E7 BTW...

[Kali]

GIMP doesn't appear to load shapes/paths out of PSDs.

Anyway, here's a properly sized one

[MadMike1024]

How does this look?



Thanks, and I'll file the nice clean copy for future Rock repaints.

My wife's grandfather was an engineer on the Rock, and these repaints are going to be a memorial of sorts to him.

[Kali]

The "Rocket" logo is a bit squished up; I stretched the clean one out until the O was round, so that is going to be the right length.( Either that or it's just the angle of the shot ). Otherwise good stuff! although I'll have to go check if the purple is a bit dark.

[MadMike1024]

The "Rocket" logo is a bit squished up; I stretched the clean one out until the O was round, so that is going to be the right length.( Either that or it's just the angle of the shot ). Otherwise good stuff! although I'll have to go check if the purple is a bit dark.

Straight on, the O is round. The purple may indeed be a bit dark, there was a mask layer that made everything appear to be a bit light, and I didn't notice it until I was at the above stage... when I turned it off, everything got a lot darker. with the lighting in RW, purples are the worst to match, either they go blue, or a horrid muddy red.

[Kali]

The purple/maroon doesn't seem that bad - mebbe a bit more red - I think it's just the orange being a bit light ( and the white lines needing to be silver ). Some nice shots of the preserved one on Flickr. Interesting colours, the red seems to go dark in the shade while the orange just turns into eyeball-melting orange ...

[MadMike1024]

The purple/maroon doesn't seem that bad - mebbe a bit more red - I think it's just the orange being a bit light ( and the white lines needing to be silver ). Some nice shots of the preserved one on Flickr. Interesting colours, the red seems to go dark in the shade while the orange just turns into eyeball-melting orange ...

Actually, there were three different versions of that paint, one with all the stripes in silver, and a repaint the had them all in white. Another has the paint stop at the edge of the maroon, loses the orange, retains the white stripes, and the rest is silver/aluminum. I think it's based on when it was last painted.

[Kali]

Ah? interesting. I have to admit to a preference for the silver stripes though.

[MadMike1024]

Ah? interesting. I have to admit to a preference for the silver stripes though.

Finding the right color of light gray and a bit of bucket filling.... I think I see a 655 in the future.

[Kali]

Just for fun I might do the retro-livery IIR ES44... looks a bit like a cheap toy but it's a bit different :)

[bsrrco]

Looking good so far. The plant i work at is located on section of the original Memphis to Tucumcari mainline now operated by the Little Rock & Western Ry

The LR&W office & shop is located in the old RI depot at Perry,Ar. if you look close you can see the "rock" station signboard as well as one of the original semaphores.