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a period layout that I had found in the 1909 book, Atkinson Sign Painting by Frank H. Atkinson. The Train Station The film opens to a historical montage for Osage life in Oklahoma and moves quickly to the Fairfax train station. As with most things on this show, the Art Department had done excellent research for this. During this period, there simply wasn't the volume of advertising that assaults people in the modern era, so I used only the simplest typefaces for the wayfinding signs, train schedules and the very limited advertising. Magnetic sheets that were printed to match the color of the train's exterior were used for the name of the line. It was quicker than painting it on since we had the train for a limited amount of time. Inside the train, travel posters were created using Dover clip art in addition to my custom fonts. Cemeteries and Gravestones There are quite a few deaths in the film and the Art Department needed to create an entire graveyard of Osage tombstones—110 markers in all, as I recall. The actual Oklahoma cemetery, where many of them are buried, now contains too many modern headstones and couldn't be used. Assistant Art Director Landon Lott created a very organized Excel spreadsheet which showed, in photos, all the names and sayings that needed to be recreated in period graphics. For words that I couldn't quite read in the photos, I was able to go to the cemetery's website and get a screen grab to complete them. Linoleum In many of the locations, decorator Adam Willis needed to cover either missing, torn-up or too- contemporary linoleum patterns. He gave me some pages from an out-of-copyright, original linoleum company booklet to adapt for the sets. These played A. TRAIN STATION. PRODUCTION STILL. B. TRAIN STATION ESTABLISHING AND WAYFINDING SIGNS. GRAPHIC LAYOUT. C. TRAIN AND STATION ADVERTISING POSTERS. A B C