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==Freight Cars==

'''1889'''

Fast freight cars to run between New York and Boston painted dark olive, lettered in white.

''Morning Journal and Courier (New Haven, CT), 15 March 1889''

'''1894'''

NYNH&H coal cars painted dark brown.

''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qIfM_UXEQ-0Z7CBHLH7rVMs59sLg-t0U/view?usp=sharing The Evening Bulletin (Providence, RI), 28 December 1894]''

'''1895'''

“Consolidated System” freight cars painted bright red, and have the “monogram of the Consolidated system painted in white on each side in place of the old block letters.”

''The Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, CT), 17 December 1895''

'''1896'''

NYNH&H cars painted red. The company recently adopted a “scroll” as its trademark, which is painted in white upon its boxcars.

''[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020358/1896-12-15/ed-1/seq-3/ The Daily Morning Journal and Courier, 15 December 1896]''

==Passenger Cars==

'''1881'''

NYNH&H parlor and passenger cars on the “New York and Newport Shore Line” train painted yellow.

NYNH&H drawing-room cars painted “dark.”

''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JnhrKP21T69vUgbn3Z8KbvwrfGPxRA-V/view?usp=sharing New Haven Daily Morning Journal and Courier (New Haven, CT), 26 May 1886]''

''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xV5VzFFJSjqh_YaqI4lrEd3H0QN5xWQj/view?usp=sharing The Port Chester Journal (Port Chester, NY), 9 June 1881]''

'''1882'''

NYNH&H sleeping cars painted olive brown with gilt lettering.

''[https://books.google.ca/books?id=Xgo0AAAAIBAJ&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q&f=false The Hartford Weekly Times (Hartford, CT), 2 March 1882]''

NYNH&H painted olive green, “free from fantastic decoration so much in vogue in times past.”

''[https://catalog.lindahall.org/discovery/delivery/01LINDAHALL_INST
/1286056230005961?lang=en The National Car Builder, September 1882, pg. 118]''

'''1883'''

NYNH&H passenger coach built by the Pullman Company painted “Pullman color.”

''[https://catalog.lindahall.org/discovery/delivery/01LINDAHALL_INST
/1286056380005961?lang=en The National Car Builder, July 1883, pg. 80]''

'''1885'''

New York and Boston express trains of the NYNH&H painted dark olive.

''[https://catalog.lindahall.org/discovery/delivery/01LINDAHALL_INST
/1286056660005961?lang=en The National Car Builder, April 1885, pg. 43]''

'''1890'''

NYNH&H passenger cars painted a shade similar to the “familiar brown ‘Pullman’ color, but it is said to be better.”

''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fn8Ck4q0QIajFqS5uzks8NF51XRJjwCZ/view?usp=sharing The Worcester Daily Spy (Worcester, MA), 30 December 1890]''

'''1893'''

Wagner sleeping cars of the NYNH&H “Shore Line Express” painted a dark brown with gold lettering.

''[https://books.google.ca/books?id=FmAzAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false The Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA), 12 January 1883]''

'''1891 to 1895'''

NYNH&H passenger cars on the “New England Express” train painted a “solid, dead white.”

''[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020355/1891-07-11/ed-1/seq-2/ The Daily Independent (Elko, NV), 11 July 1891]''

''[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn96061150/1895-12-05/ed-1/seq-3/ The Daily Astorian (Astoria, OR), 5 December 1895]''

'''1894'''

NYNH&H passenger cars begin to be painted Quaker green.

''[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92051487/1894-01-19/ed-1/seq-5/#date1=1777 The Newtown Bee (Newtown, CT), 19 January 1894]''

'''1898'''

NYNH&H experiments with copper and aluminum to replace the usual car decorations.

''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y5qHWp2qBWficCjrJS0uCZyjLylgPrAt/view?usp=sharing The Morning Record (Meriden, CT), 8 March 1898]''

'''1901'''

Passenger cars painted “Quaker green.”

''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x9Z6lkabGTI5qy4GQwfg6k2cEqkHWtNO/view?usp=sharing The Daily Advocate (Stamford, CT), 12 March 1901]''

==Structures==

'''1915'''

National Paint Works No. 400 Carbon Black is used on bridges.

[[https://archive.org/details/reviewoftechnica00chee/page/46/| Cheeseman, Frank P. The Review of Technical Paint. New York: Cheeseman & Elliot, 1915.]]


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