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==Red Line Fast Freight==

'''1865'''

Red Line cars are painted vermilion with white lettering.

''[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85033637/1865-09-26/ed-1/seq-2/| The Hillsdale Standard (Hillsdale, MI), 5 September 1865.]''

==Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Red Line Fast Freight==

'''1869'''

Cars are repainted to say "From the Atlantic to the Pacific" pending completion of the Transcontinental Railroad line.

''[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045646/1869-03-11/ed-1/seq-2/| The Daily Davenport Democrat 11 March 1869]''

==Flint & Pere Marquette Railroad Red Line Fast Freight==

'''1869'''

Red Line cars are painted bright red.

''The Saginaw Daily Enterprise (Saginaw, MI), 13 December 1869''

==New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Red Line Fast Freight==

'''1866''' 

Red Line cars are painted bright red.

''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/19_RrE0Zy0yq5uIemLEV90zc8vYsYu1hZ/view?usp=sharing| The Pittsfield Sun (Pittsfield, MA), 1 March 1866]''

'''1876'''

Red Line cars are painted a "brilliant red" color, varnished, and lettered in white with black ironwork.

''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a_gZCDq_phN8ewR7R655iGw0t-u-3gNv/view?usp=sharing| The Harrisburg Daily Patriot (Harrisburg, PA), 10 May 1876]''

''[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015021721769&view=1up&seq=455| Railway World Vol. 20, 1 July 1876.]''

'''1880'''

Red Line cars are painted red with white lettering, brown roofs and black ironwork.

''[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015013053635?urlappend=%3Bseq=694| “The Cost of Painting Freight Cars as Affected by their Color,” Railroad Gazette, 10 December 1880.]''

''[https://www.justanswer.com/antiques/9puve-found-railroad-print-thats-says-avoid-accidents.html| “How to avoid delays and accidents,” Clay Cosack & Co. ca.1880, NYC&HRRR advertising lithograph.]''




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