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Locomotives

1891

General Master Mechanic Middleton issued "stringent orders" forbidding engine stacks from being painted red. Red stacks were not a railroad standard but were a very popular practice among engineers, so it is not known which Union Pacific locomotives had red stacks and for how long.

Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 23 January 1891

Freight Cars

1883

Union Pacific specifies a light green color (Pantone 617C) for refrigerator cars of all types and patents with a darker green fascia (Pantone 392) and mineral red (Pantone 483C) roofs, underframe and trucks. Lettering in black. This paint scheme would have applied to all of Union Pacific's subsidiary railroads, including the Denver South Park & Pacific.

Sherwin-Williams Union Pacific Paint Catalog, collection of Randy Hees

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1893

Rawlins Red paint is the standard freight car color.

Alliance-Independent (Lincoln, Nebraska), 13 July 1893.

1896

Iron and other metal parts on rolling stock painted with Hanion Brothers & Co. "Antoxide" paint (black).

Railroad Car Journal August 1896

Passenger Equipment

1868

First and Second Class passenger cars and the paymaster's car are painted a wine color.

The Gold Hill Daily News (Gold Hill, NV), 22 January 1868.

1870

Passenger cars painted "Quaker Drab."

Railroad Gazette, 22 October 1870, pg. 73.

1894

Passenger coaches painted light yellow.

1895

Passenger cars repainted to Van Dyke Brown.

The Kansas City Journal (Kansas City, MO), 28 October 1895

Buildings

1881

The Ogden Utah depot (shared with the Central Pacific) introduced time boards to be placed on the platforms next to each train indicating when it would depart. These were painted red with yellow lettering.

Ogden Herald, 14 July 1881

The recently completed Union Pacific (Echo & Park City Railway) depot in Park City Utah was painted Lead color.

Salt Lake Herald-Republican, 3 March 1881

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 ''The Kansas City Journal (Kansas City, MO), 28 October 1895''
+===Buildings===
+'''1881'''
+The Ogden Utah depot (shared with the Central Pacific) introduced time boards to be placed on the platforms next to each train indicating when it would depart. These were painted red with yellow lettering.
+''Ogden Herald, 14 July 1881''
+The recently completed Union Pacific (Echo & Park City Railway) depot in Park City Utah was painted Lead color.
+''[https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6dz1fq2/10579899| Salt Lake Herald-Republican, 3 March 1881]''
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