While I agree it's a very attractive car I have no way of knowing if this was a prorotypical scheme or the imaginary creatation of someone. In addition; the working art file shows some "print font anomolies" - the letters have no fill in the central areas - this is a trend currently in some popular fonts and I have a few clients that really like it but would have been an oddity 50 years ago. The words "Mobilgas" would have been painted on, not done with a transfer or other modern graphic medium, therefore they would have either "overpainted" the name with white or would have been "reversed"the name out of a white base colour when a second red paint was applied - usually railways filled in their lettering, and with a few exceptions, even hand painted in the marks left by "stencil points" ( the small gaps left by a paper stencil that needs to hold a floating piece tgether, like the circular piece on a "P".) Aside form Lehigh Valley I can't think of another railway that didn't fill these in.
Regardless, it's attractive. the car, not the price ! ;D
