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==Passenger Cars==

'''1868'''

Eastern drovers’ saloon cars attached to freight trains painted red.

''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z5dwchWW3tKCRY89XGP3ys_2BVYRDoOf/view?usp=sharing The Daily Eastern Argus (Portland, ME), 12 March 1868]''

Eastern passenger cars painted “the prevailing color of cars on the road,” striped with black, white, and yellow. Lettering in green and gold, and the corners “ornamented with colors and scroll work.”

''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qJ35I-cLXBKDFZQUAYYRGEGhefVvMUmI/view?usp=sharing Boston Press and Post (Boston, MA), 3 August 1868]''

'''1869'''

Eastern passenger cars painted “a green drab,” with lettering and numbers in red, blue, and gold. “Tasty scroll work ornaments” at the cars’ ends and entrances.

''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mm2CjYHvNqoGLMEmClWteansNtkvvsAI/view?usp=sharing The Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics (Portsmouth, NH), 14 August 1869]''

'''1870'''

Eastern passenger cars painted the “greenish-drab color used on this road,” striped in black, yellow, and fawn, touched up with red and gold. Numbers painted in red and gold on a blue ground, enclosed “in a tasty scroll.” Corners and overhead above platforms “handsomely ornamented.” Hitchcock’s patent ventilator drums painted bright red.

''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FrxgEgSnUE7-wTAqAkQl5R4z4TP28kh6/view?usp=sharing The Boston Traveler (Boston, MA), 7 February 1870]''

'''1871'''

Eastern baggage car painted a “rich red, with green, black, and white reliefs, and lettered “Seashore Line. Boston and Portland.”

''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/114gQHQKmIB03W-1gR5Tha-ypEk0AAXfW/view?usp=sharing The Salem Register (Salem, MA), 2 February 1871]''

Eastern passenger cars painted light olive green, striped in drab, black, and white.

''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/114gQHQKmIB03W-1gR5Tha-ypEk0AAXfW/view?usp=sharing The Salem Register (Salem, MA), 2 February 1871]''

Eastern smoking cars painted light olive green, striped in black, white, and cream.

''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/14IZbGAltgZATmOqs-VqAnvPViUDrB_7W/view?usp=sharing The Portsmouth Journal of Literature and Politics (Portsmouth, NH), 8 April 1871]''

'''1872'''

Eastern postal/express car painted buff and “handsomely lettered.”

''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bToAP514NBwMeH4MutLtMGfr3kP35ONk/view?usp=sharing The Portland Daily Press (Portland, ME), 10 September 1872]''

'''1873'''

Eastern passenger cars painted straw, ornamented in green and red, with corners “illuminated in gold and colors.” Lettering done in “old English script.” Trucks painted vermilion and striped in black.

''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/16VPb-M-8W8i2HfVqijVb1jcC9mB8ukwH/view?usp=sharing The Boston Traveler (Boston, MA), 28 February 1873]''

Eastern first-class passenger cars painted light straw, with letterboard and corner posts “rich red, ornamented elaborately with gold.”

''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GPB4hfV7D2fjALziRiZLbp36NuTsAX5v/view?usp=sharing Salem Register (Salem, MA), 24 March 1873]''

Eastern passenger cars painted straw with lake trimmings.

''[https://books.google.ca/books?id=y6ozAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false The Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA), 27 March 1873]''

'''1881'''

Eastern passenger car painted yellow.

''[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016025/1881-02-09/ed-1/seq-3/ The Portland Daily Press (Portland, ME), 9 February 1881]''

'''1884'''

Eastern passenger car bodies unpainted, varnished California red-wood, lettered in gold. Roofs painted white with black edges.

''[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016025/1884-02-25/ed-1/seq-1/ The Portland Daily Press (Portland, ME), 25 February 1884]''

==Structures==

'''1874'''

The casings for station signals (probably train order signals) are painted blue and red.

''American Railroad Journal, 17 January 1874, pg. 65''

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