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==Freight Cars==

'''1881'''

Cabooses painted bright vermillion.

''[https://catalog.lindahall.org/discovery/delivery/01LINDAHALL_INST:LHL/1286056090005961?lang=en| The National Car Builder, July 1881, pg. 78]''

'''1898'''

Special stock cars painted white

''[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015679/1898-06-29/ed-1/seq-7/ The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis, IN), 29 June 1898]''

'''1903'''

All freight cars are repainted to a standard "red color."

''Wood County Reporter (Grand Rapids, WI), 31 July 1903''

==Passenger Equipment==

'''1881'''

Palace dining cars painted dark wine with "gilt tracery and ornamental designs representing storks, passion-flowers, cornucopias, etc."

''[https://catalog.lindahall.org/discovery/delivery/01LINDAHALL_INST:LHL/1286056090005961?lang=en| The National Car Builder, July 1881, pg. 84]''

'''1883'''

Coaches painted lemon color with ultramarine blue letter boards under each window. Lettered in gold with red shading, except for the car number which was painted ultramarine at the center of the car.

''[https://catalog.lindahall.org/discovery/delivery/01LINDAHALL_INST:LHL/1286056380005961?lang=en| The National Car Builder January 1883 pg. 6]''

'''1892'''

Heath & Milligan Manufacturing Company offered a "C&NW Car Body Color" in their standard railroad paint line that appears as a yellow-orange, although no indication was provided on what cars C&NW used it on.

''Heath & Milligan Manufacturing Co. advertisement, The Official Railway List, 1892''

'''1902'''

Coaches painted yellow.

''The Frontier (O’Neill, NE), 18 December 1902''


[[Reference]] / [[Historic Railroad Paint Color Index]]