Lettering color on early steam

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I have copies of PRR locomotive painting diagrams, and I'm certain that 
road lettered steam in gold leaf until a certain date.

--Rick Morrison

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     Subject: Re: Lettering color on early steam

     Gary

        "This was not used on locomotives"

     What do you base this statement on? I do not have any first hand 
knowledge about Locomotive lettering with gold leaf. But I do know for fact 
the N&W and C&O used real gold leaf in passenger applications. And would 
think it would be in the realm of possibility that in the day they may have 
use it on passenger locomotives as the drawing suggest.

     Larry