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==Freight Cars==

'''1872'''

GWR oil tank cars were painted brown ochre, with the tank painted white lead.

''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bSf0PE141sAJ4Bf1nwV6fLx4tqZ03rU3/view?usp=sharing 1872 Great Western Railway of Canada oil tank car specifications, Library Archives of Canada]''

'''1873'''

GWR 33-foot boxcars were painted brown ochre, with lettering painted white shaded with black.

GWR stock cars were painted brown ochre, with lettering painted white shaded with black.

GWR double-decked stock cars were painted brown ochre, with lettering painted white shaded with black. Cast iron letters and numbers, painted white, were placed on the “south side” of the car.

GWR platform coal cars were painted brown ochre, with lettering painted white shaded with black. Cast iron letters and numbers, painted white, were placed on the “south side” of the car.

GWR “Michigan Line” boxcars were painted brown ochre, with lettering painted white shaded with black.

''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oqX1lgRJTGV2uLjuKt2sX5JFtw344Ufh/view?usp=drivesdk 1873 Great Western Railway of Canada freight car specifications, Library Archives of Canada]''

==Passenger Cars==

'''1860'''

GWR car built for the use of the Prince of Wales interior painted white, trimmed with gold leaf, and all iron work bronzed except the handrails, which are silver-plated. Trucks painted a “very dark crimson” and trimmed with gold leaf. The Royal Arms with the Prince’s crest painted in the ovals on the car sides.

''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1brYqhOIxU4mw_nxk9fxIA5J_k62RwqtC/view?usp=sharing The Cass County Republican (Dowagiac, MI), 13 September 1860]''

'''1867'''

GWR Pullman “Hotel Car” painted a “rich lake crimson,” ornamented in gold. The oval panels on the car sides featured copies in bronze of Thorwaldsen’s figures of Sight and Hearing.

''[https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Rambles_on_Railways_With_maps_diagrams_a/46pVAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Railway News via Rambles on Railways. With maps, diagrams, and appendices, 1868, pg. 303]''

'''1868'''

GWR passenger car painted dark brown, with “native Canadian ochre.”

''[https://books.google.ca/books?id=qaIkAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false The Daily Telegraph (Toronto, ON), 23 September 1868]''

'''1870'''

GWR passenger cars painted Oxford ochre picked out with gold and blue.

''[https://books.google.ca/books?id=BqgJAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA1&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false The Sarnia Observer (Sarnia, ON), 30 December 1870]''


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