Recently bought a beautiful set of all seven hard to come by scale MTH Premier Strasburg Railroad 64' wood-sided passenger cars from board member, Chris L., [thanks again, Chris].
The thing is I already had three of them and so now I have three cars duplicately named and numbered coaches. Rather than sell those extra cars since there're so scarce and exquisitely done, I've decided to keep them and rename them as other cioach cars for the Strasburg. However, I'm afraid to attepmt to remove the original MTH coach name and number lettering for fear of messing up these $100 apiece beauties. Nor do I want to attempt repainting them.
So my question is how prototypical is it for either the Strasburg or other tourist or short lines to rename a coach car by affixing a plaque / placard [board] with a new coach name painted on it over [on top of] and covering up the coach name which has already been painted on the side of the coach car?
What about doing the same treatment to renumber that coach car? Would it look oddly strange or atypical? If so, what else then would you suggest I do as I obviously don't want to run a train with coach cars having duplicate names?
Also, if It is acceptable to go the plaque/placard route, rather than trying to match the background color on the plaque to the identical color of the coach side, what about the plaque being black with gthe coach name in gold lettering?
Last, do you know the font of style type the Strasburg RR uses to letter it's cars?
Thanks in advance for your suggestions and help.
Kenn
