generic decals

  There was a company called Rail Graphics that offered generic road number and data sets but he retired a couple of years ago and I don't know if anyone stepped up to fill the void. I'd go to ebay and search the HO scale decal section(or whatever scale you need) for "lot" or "big lot" . I see lots of large lots on there ,some at pretty low price per piece....DaveB

Look up Circuscity Decals

Look up Circuscity Decals

What's wrong with

Microscale or Highball Graphics for generic decals?

If it's not white, I've used a Laser printer successfully.

Bill Brillinger has done a couple large batches of custom specific decals for me also.

Nick

Print white decals

Just recently

had a couple of sheets of decals (one all white) made by Bill Brillinger and I'm ecstatic with the results. If you can do the artwork in a computer it is a no brainer. I did PNG files, to size in black and Bill waves his magic wand and you get white decals.

Or do it in Word with regular fonts and he can get even finer detail. 

Plus one for PDC

I also asked Bill for help and he did way more than expected. Very nice work and professional service. 

Precision Design Co

Another plus for Bill

I've had Bill do a few decals for me as well also like the results he's done. Another one to try is circusdecals.com. We all have our preferences on where we our decals from.  Stick with Bill for the special ones that no one carries.

Whatever you do make it look appropriate

By that I mean the data should match the car and era...

nothing like a boxcar wearing a gondolas' data... what, no inside height?

(or am I being a rivet counter?)

Gondola Inside Height

I know what you're going for there, but gondolas most certainly do have an inside height, and it's actually a kind of important dimension (floor to top of sides). It's just typically 4-5' in the case of a standard mill gondola, which is a little short for a boxcar. :-p A woodchip gondola could have a 10-11' inside height.

Era is an important note though, as weigh dates are a key indicator, and after about 1985 the "CAPY" line was removed from the weight data as redundant.

http://vanderheide.ca/blog/2017/09/29/dating-via-the-details/

The problem with generic decals....

Is what they are generic for? Different eras are going to have very different documentation requirements (different types of COTS panels, or ACI labels for instance).

Different cars types may also have different labeling requirements, although not so much for the modern era.

Data, COTS, ACI, U-1, etc.

Well, generally you're going to need 3-4 sets to piece all these bits together anyways...