Union Tank Line: Paint Information - Revision history

Evan Abma at 01:52, 27 May 2024

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	SOCONY tank cars painted blue.		SOCONY tank cars painted blue.

	''[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042459/1883-11-14/ed-1/seq-3/\| Daily Los Angeles Herald, 14 November 1883]''		''[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042459/1883-11-14/ed-1/seq-3/ Daily Los Angeles Herald, 14 November 1883]''

	Dupont paint color number 83-30483, 254-35405. Commonly known as Southern Pacific "Daylight Red" was also specified as Socony (Standard Oil Company of New York) Red.		Dupont paint color number 83-30483, 254-35405. Commonly known as Southern Pacific "Daylight Red" was also specified as Socony (Standard Oil Company of New York) Red.

Josh Bernard: Added information about SOCONY

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Added information about SOCONY

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	[[Reference]] / [[Historic Railroad Paint Color Index]]		[[Reference]] / [[Historic Railroad Paint Color Index]]
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			Union Tank Line was owned by the Standard Oil Company of New York (SOCONY), so color standards were uniform between the two companies for much of their existence.

	==Freight Cars==		==Freight Cars==

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	''White, 1993'' states that UTL cars were painted red through the 1880s up until 1912, when they started to be painted black.		''White, 1993'' states that UTL cars were painted red through the 1880s up until 1912, when they started to be painted black.

			'''1883'''

			SOCONY tank cars painted blue.

			''[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042459/1883-11-14/ed-1/seq-3/\| Daily Los Angeles Herald, 14 November 1883]''

	Dupont paint color number 83-30483, 254-35405. Commonly known as Southern Pacific "Daylight Red" was also specified as Socony (Standard Oil Company of New York) Red.		Dupont paint color number 83-30483, 254-35405. Commonly known as Southern Pacific "Daylight Red" was also specified as Socony (Standard Oil Company of New York) Red.

Andrew Brandon at 20:38, 26 June 2021

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	See: [[Southern Pacific Common Standard Color Drift #28]]		See: [[Southern Pacific Common Standard Color Drift #28]]

			From '''Southern Pacific Painting and Lettering Guide'''. SPH&TS Upland, 2019.

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

Andrew Brandon at 20:35, 26 June 2021

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	''White, 1993'' states that UTL cars were painted red through the 1880s up until 1912, when they started to be painted black.		''White, 1993'' states that UTL cars were painted red through the 1880s up until 1912, when they started to be painted black.

			Dupont paint color number 83-30483, 254-35405. Commonly known as Southern Pacific "Daylight Red" was also specified as Socony (Standard Oil Company of New York) Red.

			Pullman paint color numbers 70-65 and 70-105. Commonly known as Southern Pacific "Daylight Red" was also specified as Socony (Standard Oil Company of New York) Red.

			See: [[Southern Pacific Common Standard Color Drift #28]]

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

Josh Bernard: Created page, imported data from google doc

2021-06-18T19:59:12Z

Created page, imported data from google doc

New page

[[Reference]] / [[Historic Railroad Paint Color Index]]
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==Freight Cars==

'''1873'''

Tank cars built by the Harrisburg Car Manufacturing Company were painted with white tanks, blue domes and red ends and frames.

''Lancaster Intelligencer (Lancaster, PA), 2 April 1873''

'''1877'''

A new batch of tank cars from the same manufacturer was painted the same.

''Pittsburgh Commercial and Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA), 8 May 1877''

'''1880s'''

''White, 1993'' states that UTL cars were painted red through the 1880s up until 1912, when they started to be painted black.

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