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Stan Cedarleaf and his v. fine decals

Modeling
#1

Afternoom, all - just to let you know that Mr Cedarleaf has come good yet again. My special order RGS decals arrove this morning while we were out in the top pasture milking the chicken and gathering a root to suck for dinner tonight.

As expected, they were to the usual high standard of Stan’s work - might even ask some kind soul who has electricity to post the results later on this Fall when the work is all done.

Stan provode the unique decals on my custom NP canoe-scheme SD45 - painted by Jeff over at Shawmut Car Shops a few years back - and they were so compellingly good that another customer ordered the same loco on the spot.

Thanks again, Stan - we’ll be back.

Best to all

tac
www.ovgrs.org

#2

tac, Photos, please. I’m guessing this the “canoe” livery. What years and locos was it used (on)? This is Athearn HO.

(http://www.theinsidegateway.com/NPSD45Small.gif)

Joe Satnik Edit: Corrected “make” of model to Athearn.

#3

Joe - that’s it!! I based my loco on a brilliant colour photo on page 19 of Dale Sanders’ superb book - ‘The Northern Pacific’. My loco, #3629, is parked up outside the Mississippi Street shops in St Paul, in May 1968. I just fell in love with it right there and then - I’m sure I don’t have to explain why to anybody on THIS website.

As I noted before, Jeff was displaying my loco to another customer who also got smit, so there are two, but only two, on this planet in 1/29th scale. If you email me I can send pics to you, but I have a geas on posting images directly to websites.

It is one beautiful-looking loco in 1/29th, I can tell ya.

I’m not too au fait with the operational lifetime of the canoe paint scheme, so I’ll have to rely on a real expert to tell you, but I DO know that the next delivery of similar locos in 1970 were in Cascade Green after the BN merger took place that year.

Other locos in the same scheme were - GP9, RS-3, U33C, RS-11, GP18, RS-1, U28C, U25C and the two Baldwin DRS-6-6-15s that worked the Pasco hump.

Good choice there - well represented in H0 scale from my research.

Best

tac
www.ovgrs.org

#4

Dear tac,

Wow, great research. Thanks.

I grew up in that general area, was in grade school in that time frame. Watched a lot of RR action from atop Dayton’s Bluff - Mounds Park. Slipped more than once along those sandstone cliffs learning to be a mountain goat. Don’t let my Mom know…

Any videos posted?

You should make a lash-up with the other customer and take some photos/videos.

My addy is joebarb “at” wwt “dot” net

Thanks.

Joe Satnik

#5

Dear All, I was wondering why it was called a canoe paint scheme, as it didn’t look too much like a canoe on the SD45 to me. Lets try a GP9 now:

(http://www.horizonhobby.com/ProdInfo/UST/450/USTR22124-450.jpg)

Anything jump out at you? Sincerely, Joe Satnik

#6

Does Stan Cedarleaf have a website or email address for decals? Thanks

#7
Ron Hill said:
Does Stan Cedarleaf have a website or email address for decals? Thanks
[email protected] is his email address. He is down at Marty's thingy in Ne. City right now but probably back next week sometime. may be [email protected] without the capitol S&C The Regal

p.s. if i can find his website I will post that for you.

Here tiz!!

http://gold.mylargescale.com/StanCedarleaf/WebPageDecals/CustomDecalsx.html

#8

Dear All,

To partially answer my own question,

Lionel made the 2349 Northern Pacific Diesel GP9 Road Switcher from 1959-60, therefore the scheme must have been used prior to 1959.

http://www.davestrains.com/motor.html#Diesel

(Scroll down to 2349 to click on 4 different views of the same model.)

So, we still don’t know when first used.

Was there a freight diesel scheme used prior to “Canoe”, or was it the first?

Trivially,

Joe Satnik

#9
Jerry Hansen said:
Ron Hill said:
Does Stan Cedarleaf have a website or email address for decals? Thanks
[email protected] is his email address. He is down at Marty's thingy in Ne. City right now but probably back next week sometime. may be [email protected] without the capitol S&C The Regal

p.s. if i can find his website I will post that for you.

Here tiz!!

http://gold.mylargescale.com/StanCedarleaf/WebPageDecals/CustomDecalsx.html


Jerry - Stan tells me that he will be away from home for about two weeks starting last weekend… I dunno if that info is any use to you.

Best

tac
www.ovgrs.org

#10
Joe Satnik said:
Any videos posted?

You should make a lash-up with the other customer and take some photos/videos.

My addy is joebarb “at” wwt “dot” net

Thanks.

Joe Satnik


Joe - see your e-mail pronto. Sorry, no videos took yet, and the other [unknown] customer lives in the USA - I live [if you can call it that] in the UK for as little time as I can manage. The yellow looks awfully ‘acid’ in the images, for reasons I cannot fathom - in reality it is somewhat more sombre, but still not as ‘ochre’-looking as the excellent Atlas model.

Best

tac
www.ovgrs.org

#11

tac,

Got the pics.

Very impressive. Has that 1:29 “wow” factor.

Thanks.

Joe Satnik

#12

This was the predecessor to the NP canoe scheme.

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-85213389147411_2068_595278

This is an Atlas Zero scale model.

#13

Thanks, Steve.

Looks like the colors were already there, just in a different shape.

#14

Ah, I ignored the F3As, F7As and F9As, mainly because their scheme doesn’t look like a ‘canoe’ to me.

tac
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