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J. Powell's Ad Sign Collection - Hosted by Family Garden Trains™

Note from editor: James Powell is known to many model railroaders because of his unique Wiscassest, Trevino & Western (WT&W) model railroad. For a while, Jim also ran a business making wooden building kits for model railroaders. To help folks dress up their buildings, Jim printed business signs out on thin sheets of wood that could be cut easily and pasted onto buildings. Although the business did not last, the signs did. When Jim put up a web site about his trains, he posted scans of those business sign for other model railroaders to download and use.

We have created new preview "thumbnails" and reorganized Jim's collection a little to make it easy to use. But the big files are Jim's original work. Thanks again, Mr. Powell, for making this resource available. Now for Jim's own words:

Dress up your buildings!

Welcome to the WT&W ad sign exchange! From here you can download, for free, the same ads we use on our buildings on the WT&W! We have a huge library of ad signs from our former company, DP Industries. Instead of letting them all rot away in storage, we figured we'd share them all with you!

Click on the thumbnail image to view the full size image. The full size images are very large, but in order for you to be able to print them out full size, they have to be.

Note: For very fine quality signs, try downloading the big image, then reducing the size as you print them out. If you are working in a scale that will allow you to reduce the size of these signs by 50%, they should come out even better than they do now!

Note from Editor: - If you plan to resize any graphics on this page within a graphics program such as PaintShop Pro, try "increasing the color depth" to 24 bit/16 million colors (You could resave as .jpg files if you wished and retain the "color depth" in the new file.) The resized graphics will look much better. We haven't done that for you because we wanted to keep James' graphics as close to his original as possible, and it would have increased file sizes even more. - Paul

Ad Sign #1 - Includes 13 signs. Click on the image to see full size. Right click on the big image and choose 'Save Picture As...' or 'Save Image as....' to save the image to your hard disk.

Image size: 450k
Pixel Size: 502x1121
Image Type: GIF

Note: These images are large and will take a while to download on a slow connection.

Ad Sign #2 - Includes 17 signs. Click on the image to see full size. Right click on the big image and choose 'Save Picture As...' or 'Save Image as....' to save the image to your hard disk.

Image size: 600k
Pixel Size: 770x1155
Image Type: GIF

Note: These images are large and will take a while to download on a slow connection.

Ad Sign #3 - Includes 12 signs. Note: There is damage to the left side of this image. If you have a copy of this image without the damage, plase contact us so we can replace this image with a better one. In the meantime, most of the signs are still useful. Click on the image to see full size. Right click on the big image and choose 'Save Picture As...' or 'Save Image as....' to save the image to your hard disk.

Image size: 690k
Pixel Size: 792x1129
Image Type: GIF

Note: These images are large and will take a while to download on a slow connection.

Ad Sign #4 - Includes 14 signs. Click on the image to see full size. Right click on the big image and choose 'Save Picture As...' or 'Save Image as....' to save the image to your hard disk.

Image size: 600k
Pixel Size: 813x1129
Image Type: GIF

Note: These images are large and will take a while to download on a slow connection.

Ad Sign #5 - Includes 5 signs. Note: There were 14 signs in the original image, but the image was truncated due to a download glitch, so I've salvaged what i could. If you have a copy of this image without the damage, plase contact us so we can replace this image with a better one. Click on the image to see the remaining signs full size. Right click on the big image and choose 'Save Picture As...' or 'Save Image as....' to save the image to your hard disk.

Image size: 240k
Pixel Size: 760x1176
Image Type: GIF

Note: These images are large and will take a while to download on a slow connection.

Ad Sign #6 - Includes 21 signs. Click on the image to see full size. Right click on the big image and choose 'Save Picture As...' or 'Save Image as....' to save the image to your hard disk.

Image size: 230k
Pixel Size: 760x1176
Image Type: GIF

Note: These images are large and will take a while to download on a slow connection.

Ad Sign #7 - Includes 14 signs. Click on the image to see full size. Right click on the big image and choose 'Save Picture As...' or 'Save Image as....' to save the image to your hard disk.

Image size: 188k
Pixel Size: 760x1176
Image Type: GIF

Note: These images are large and will take a while to download on a slow connection.

Ad Sign #8 - Includes 16 signs. Click on the image to see full size. Right click on the big image and choose 'Save Picture As...' or 'Save Image as....' to save the image to your hard disk.

Image size: 194k
Pixel Size: 760x1176
Image Type: GIF

Note: These images are large and will take a while to download on a slow connection.

Ad Sign #9 - Includes 25 signs. Click on the image to see full size. Right click on image and choose 'Save Picture As...' or 'Save Image as....' to save the image to your hard disk.

Image size: 600k
Pixel Size: 1050x1350
Image Type: JPG

Note: These images are large and will take a while to download on a slow connection.

40s and 50s posters - Includes 164 signs & posters. Click on the image to see full size. Unfortunately for Large Scale railroaders, the graphics on this image (as originally provided by James Powell) are very small. But they may be useful for smaller scales. Right click on the big image and choose 'Save Picture As...' or 'Save Image as....' to save the image to your hard disk.

Image size: 850k
Pixel Size: 1016x1445
Image Type: GIF

Note: These images are large and will take a while to download on a slow connection.

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