In a quest to add to the fleet of milkcars and get some variety in my consist. Often times dairies leased milk cars. They placed lettered sheet metal signs on the sides of cars. From what I read these signs were removed during the war as metal was needed. After doing some research for my Rutland NY bound train. The consist was basically all Bordens or Sheffield cars. I found this picture doing a search. Also uncovered a few brass cars to get an idea of paint color. I purchased a Lionel Pfaudler car. Didn't' look to busy lettering wise as far as a repaint and the price was right. I wet sanded the lettering with 600 grit without trying to remove all of it. I used Mission Models paint. Russian dark olive with some drops of black till it resembled a Pullman green. The decals are from Highball Graphics. The signs were made with a labelmaker. Laid them out on white paper and took a photo. Transferred the photo to Staples and had them done as business cards. If anyone wants a go at this. I have 240 of them leftover. My lack of skills is showing here. I'm sure there is a better way. But the cards after trimming are rugged enough to be just glued onto the sides. I fabricated coupler mounts from aluminum and gave it a weathered look.
