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Locomotives

1880

2-8-0 Locomotives 219 through 233 are delivered in Baldwin style 109 Olive Green and "color" (imitation gold) lettering and striping. Boiler jackets are American Iron with brass bands.

Baldwin Locomotive Works engine specifications, 1869-1938 vol 10 p 200, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University

1885

Locomotives 505 and 545 through 554 are delivered in black with no striping. Boiler jackets are planished iron with brass bands.

Baldwin Locomotive Works engine specifications, 1869-1938 vol 12 p 262, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University

1887

Locomotives are painted with the following process (see 1887 Standard Color List for interpretation):

Ironwork:

• No.2 or No.31 priming
• No.30 Intermediate coats
• No. 81 Rough stuff
• No. 29 Finishing coats
• No.67 (asphaltum) Smoke stack, ash pan, etc.

Woodwork:

• No.30 Priming and intermediate coats
• No.29 Finishing, outside
• No.34 Finishing, inside
• No.6 Lettering and numbers

1890

Locomotives are painted under the following specifications:

Priming-Tank, sand box, steam domes, drivers, truck wheels, cylinder and steam chest covers, engine frame, smoke stack and all wrought-irons to be primed with a paint composed of 10 pounds English red lead standard color No.77; 3 pounds Johnson's magnetic paint, standard color NO. 95; 1/4 pound Eddie's Lamp-black, standard color No.65; thinned with priming oil, composed of one gallon, best boiled linseed oil; one qt. turpentine; 1/2 pt. best Japan, and well rubbed out under the brush.

All wood-work, except inside of sash, to be primed with a paint composed of 4 pounds white lead, standard color No.30; 2 pounds Prince's Metallic, standard color No.97; made quite thin with priming oil composed of 2 gals. raw linseed oil, 1 pt. coach Japan, 1. qt. turpentine, mixed.

Surfacing-All nail holes, etc., to be filled with hard drying lead putty, and tank, drivers, all rough irons, and all wood except inside of cab, to be brought to a level surface with a paste filler composed of 5 pounds white lead, standard color No.30; 1 pound Prince's metallic, standard color No.97; 4 pounds whiting, ground thick in coach Japan, and applied with a broad stiff knife, leaving none on the surface.

Second Coat-Tank, outside of cab, sand box, domes, drivers, engine truck, wheels, cylinder and steam chest covers and pilot, to be second coated with a mixture of 5 pounds white lead, standard color No.30; 5 pounds ivory black, standard color No. 29; thinned with turpentine.

LETTERING.

Letters and numbers for Freight Engines- To have two coats of standard color No.8, as per pounce patterns furnished.

Letters and numbers for Passenger Engines- All letters and numbers on cab, sand box, and front end to be in gold, standard colors No.30 and 32. Numbers on tank to be two coats of standard color No.6.

Rods-To be finished the same as the drivers.

Sash-To have double thick glass, outside of sash to have two coats of ground color and grained light mahogany or beywood inside to be filled and finished on the natural wood.

Inside of Cab-To have two coats of green, standard color No. 34, thinned with turpentine.

Tender Frame-To be coated inside before floor is laid, and all joints put together with mineral paint, standard color No.98.

Inside of Tank, etc.- Water space and coal space, top and bottom of tank, outside of boiler under the lagging, and inside of wrought-iron plates on fender frame, to have a good coat of color, composed of 10 pounds red lead, standard color No.77; 10 pounds Johnson's magnetic paint, standard color No.95; thinned with boiled linseed oil, and thoroughly coated, especially the water space.

Finishing- Tank, outside of cab, sash, sand box, domes, drivers, engine truck wheels, steam chest and cylinder covers and number plate, to be finished with two coats of engine finishing varnish.

Inside of Cab and Sash- To be finished with two coats of coach rubbing varnish, and boiler plates, seat boxes, etc. to be painted the color of black walnut, mixed with coach rubbing varnish. Engine frame, smoke-stack, trucks, all irons, chains, injector, air pump castings, to be finished with two coats of ivory black No.29, thinned with engine finishing varnish.

Cab Roof. - Floor of tender and cab, and top and bottom of running boards, to have two coats of standard color NO.98; also the cab roof to have one coat of the same under tin.

-G.W. Cushing, Sup't M.P. & Mach'y.

Specification No.768: Painting Locomotive Engines and Tenders, Union Pacific Railway Company, Office Sup't Motive Power and Machinery, January 1890.

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

1895

Union Pacific begins lettering freight locomotives with aluminum leaf and passenger engines with gold leaf.

Salt Lake Daily Tribune 4 September 1895

Rawlins Republican, 13 September 1895

1903

Steam locomotives and tenders are lettered using aluminum leaf. Cab roofs are CS-13 Carbon Black. Window sashes are painted CS-4 Maroon. The rest of the locomotive, including the channels of the rods, are painted CS-7 Black Varnish.

Union Pacific Specification CS-22: Paint - Numerical List of Paints and their Uses. Adopted December 1903, revised 26 October 1926.

1905

Number plate figures were polished aluminum.

Drawing CA-4492 "Union Pacific System Common Standard Number Plate," 28 January 1905.

Freight Cars

1876

Rawlin's Metallic Paint Company advertises that Union Pacific and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company both use their product.

American Railroad Journal 29 April 1876 p543.

1883

Union Pacific specifies a light green color for refrigerator cars of all types and patents with a darker green fascia and mineral red 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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1887

Box, stock and outfit cars are painted with standard colors No.2 or No.31 on the body and trucks, No.63 for trim, lettering and numbers and No.66 for the lettering panels.

No.2 is "Perfect Method Freight Car Color," a half-and-half mix of English Venetian red and Prince's Metallic. No.31 is "Freight Car Color," Rawlins' Mineral Red.

Refrigerator cars are painted with standard colors No.24 on the body and roof; No.25 for trim; No.2 or No.31 on underframe and trucks, No.63 for lettering on trucks and No.66 for lettering and numbering.

"List of Standard Paints," Union Pacific Railway Standard Paints and Colors 1887 pp5-8.

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

1903

Automobile cars, boxcars and stock cars, are painted CS-11 "Metallic."

Refrigerator car sides are painted CS-8 Refrigerator Yellow with CS-11 "Metallic" ends. Metal roofs, metal underframes, trucks and grab irons are painted CS-13 Carbon Black; wood roofs are painted CS-11 "Metallic."

Union Pacific Specification CS-22: Paint - Numerical List of Paints and their Uses. Adopted December 1903, revised 26 October 1926.

1904

Defect card holders on freight cars are painted CS-17 lamp black, regardless of color of carbody, with white lettering spelling "DEFECT CARDS."

Drawing C-420 "Common Standard Defect Card Board," May 1904, revised 21 October 1913.

1950

Steel boxcars and automobile cars are painted C.S. 22 No.33 Red Freight Car Paint on sides, roofs, underframes, all runningboards, trucks, and interior surfaces. The interior is then painted from floor line upwards two feet with C.S.22 No. 167 Light Black Car Cement. Lettering, including stenciling on trucks, is in C.S.22 No.186 Armour Yellow Stencil Paste. Auto loader stenciling is done in black enamel on a white background. B-50-40 and B-50-41 class boxcars receive C.S.22 No.168 Medium Black Car Cement on roofs, ends, and underframe.

Wood boxcars and automobile cars are painted C.S. 22 No.33 Red Freight Car Paint on all exterior wood surfaces, roofs, all runningboards, underframes and trucks.

Open gondolas and flatcars are painted C.S. 22 No.33 Red Freight Car Paint on all exterior surfaces, underframe, trucks. Interiors and decking are given two coats Chromate primer on steel surfaces and C.S.22 No.40 Wood Primer on wood surfaces. When repainted, the interior surfaces and decks do not get re-primed or repainted. Lettering is in C.S.22 No.186 Armour Yellow Stencil Paste. Class G-50-13 gondolas receive C.S.222 No.168 medium black car cement on ends and underframe.

Red stock cars are painted C.S.22 No.33 Red Freight Car Paint on all surfaces including runningboards, underframes and trucks. Lettering is in C.S.22 No.186 Armour Yellow Stencil Paste.

Yellow stock cars are painted C.S.22 No.35 Yellow Freight Car Paint on all exterior side surfaces and C.S.22 No.26 Aluminum on steel ends, roofs, and runningboards, both metal and wood. Underframe and trucks are painted C.S.22 No.34 Black Freight Car Paint. Journal box lids on roller bearing-equipped cars are painted C.S.22 No.35 Armour Yellow Freight Car Paint. Lettering is in C.S.22 No.187 Red Stencil Paste; stenciling on trucks is in No.186 Armour Yellow Stencil Paste.

Covered hoppers are painted C.S.22 No.42 harbor Mist Gray Freight Car Paint on all exterior surfaces including trucks and runningboards. Lettering is in C.S.22 No.188 Black Stencil Paste.

Tank cars are painted C.S.22 No.34 Black Freight Car Paint on all surfaces including trucks and runningboards.

Sand is applied to painted wood runningboards before paint dries.

Standard Practice for Painting, Repainting and Stenciling Freight Train Cars and Work Equipment Cars. Omaha, Nebraska: 29 April 1950.

1960

The roofs of classes CH-70-4, CH-70-5, CH-70-7, CH-70-8, CH-70-9, and CH-70-12 covered hoppers, even those painted aluminum, are primed with No.37 Red Zinc Chromate primer and painted with A.C. Horn Company's Battleship Gray Tread-Sure or Truscon Lboratory's Saf-T-Dek No.700 Gray.

Correspondence, D.S. Neuhart to R.J. Dunn, C.T. Armstrong, R.F. Weiss, H.L. Crane, F.D. Acord, J.E. Pickett, Omaha, Nebraska, 11 January 1960.

1963

Due to a surplus of DuPont #83-508 white enamel at the Ablina and Omaha stores, the use of yellow lettering on boxcars is discontinued and replaced with white lettering.

Correspondence D.S. Neuhart to W.C. Haber, Omaha, Nebraska, 7 December 1963.

40 and 50 foot boxcars and auto cars are painted in Red Synthetic Freight Car paint with white lettering. The use of the "Be Specific - Ship Union Pacific" herald is replaced with a 60-inch shield herald applied as a Scotchcal decal and the "Ship and Travel the Automated Railway" slogan.

Insulated boxcars are painted orange with black lettering.

Correspondence D.S. Neuhart to R.F. Weiss, H.L. Crane, J.A. Schellhorn, J.E. Pickett and R.C. Cochran, Omaha, Nebraska, 18 December 1963.

Cabooses

1886

Before September 9th cabooses are painted Standard Paint Color No. 20 "Outside Caboose Color." After September 9th cabooses are painted Standard Paint Color No. 32 "Outside Caboose Color."

Inside walls are painted Standard Paint Color No. 21, slate green color. Lettering and numbers are shaded with the same color until December 4th. After December 4th lettering shading is Standard Paint Color No.89.

"List of Standard Paints," Union Pacific Railway Standard Paints and Colors 1887 pp5-8.

1887

A majority of the Union Pacific cabooses have donned a bright yellow coat. The remainder will be given a similar coat as soon as possible.

Cheyenne Daily Leader, September 24, 1887.

Cabooses are painted on the outside with standard paint colors No.30 for priming; No.32 for finishing coats, No.21 for trim, No.22 for lettering and numbers shaded with No.89, No.3 on the trucks, No.29 on the hand rails, truss rods and ironwork on the trucks, No.63 for truck striping, No.2 or No.31 for the roof and underframe, and No.26 for the signal balls.

The interior is painted with standard colors No.21 on the walls, No.23 on the ceiling and No.33 on the floor.

"List of Standard Paints," Union Pacific Railway Standard Paints and Colors 1887 pp5-8.

1901

The work of painting cabooses the standard color of red is progressing rapidly and many cabooses are now seen on the road of this color.

Cheyenne Daily Leader Wednesday, October 30, 1901.

1903

Cabooses are painted CS-11 Metallic (brown) with CS-13 Carbon Black on trucks and iron work.

Union Pacific Specification CS-22: Paint - Numerical List of Paints and their Uses. Adopted December 1903, revised 26 October 1926.

1907

Fusee boxes in class CA-1 and CA-2 cabooses are painted Signal Red with "FUSEES," "MATCHES," "TORPEDOS" and "UP" lettered in black.

Drawing C-1325 "Common Standard Fusee & Torpedo Box," December 1907.

1950

Cabooses are painted C.S.22 No.35 Armour Yellow Freight Car Paint on sides, ends, doors, and step risers. Platforms and step treads are painted C.S.22 NO.4 maroon paint. Platform railings, hand brakes, ladders, and handholds (except on cupolas) are painted C.S.22 No.29 Striping Red Enamel. Roofs, all runningboards and cupola handholds are painted C.S.22 No.33 Red Freight Car Paint (except mulehide roofs, which are unpainted). Underframes and trucks are painted C.S.22 No.34 Black Freight Car Paint. Walls, ceilings and interior walls of cupolas painted C.S.22 No.31 Light Green Flat Paint. Interior wainscotting is painted up to four feet from floor in C.S.22 No.30 Dark Green Flat Paint. Interior floors and cupola platforms painted C.S.22 No.4 Maroon Paint.

Standard Practice for Painting, Repainting and Stenciling Freight Train Cars and Work Equipment Cars. Omaha, Nebraska: 29 April 1950.

1959

Caboose interiors are changed from flat to semi-gloss paint. Interior walls are painted CS-22 No.30 "Dark Green Interior Semi-Gloss Paint" and CS-22 No.31 "Light Green Interior Semi-Gloss Paint."

Correspondence, D.S. Neuhart to G.T. Wickstrom, Omaha, Nebraska, 5 October 1959.

1960

Cabooses 25402 and 25441 assigned to pool service with the CB&Q are painted aluminum on the sides, ends and cupola; red on the roof; underframe and appliances in black freight car paint; and all lettering in red stencil paint.

Correspondence D.S. Neuhart to R.C. Cochran, Omaha, Nebraska, 22 November 1960.

1963

The interiors of all cabooses are changed from semi-gloss to full gloss. Interior walls are painted CS-22 No.30 Dark Green and No.32 Light Green. Union Pacific's paint supplier at this time is American-Marietta, Charles R. Long Division.

Correspondence H.C. Haber to R.J. Murphy, Omaha, Nebraska, 15 March 1963.

Passenger Equipment

1866

Director's car "Omaha" was painted a rich wine color.

Fort Wayne Daily Gazette (Fort Wayne, Indiana), 30 May 1866

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.

1871

Passenger cars uniformly painted a “rich brown, set off with gold trimmings.”

The Watchman (Montpelier, VT), 19 July 1871

1878

Passenger cars painted a “deep wine color,” lettered and ornamented in gold.

The Omaha Daily Bee (Omaha, NE), 8 March 1878

1880

Emigrant sleepers are painted yellow on the exterior with the interior being polished unpainted wood.

Georgetown Courier 27 May 1880.

1883

Buffet car, “Monterey,” painted chocolate brown, relieved with gold trimming.

San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA), 22 December 1883

1887

Coaches and Emigrant Cars are painted with standard colors No.30 for priming; No.1 for exterior finishing; No.4 (ground) and No.5 (finish) together on belt rails and patches; No.6 for ornamentation; No.82 and No.80 for lettering; No.7 and No.8 for lettering shading; No.11 for faux mahogany graining on window sashes; No.2 or No.31 on roof and underframe; No.3 on the trucks and platforms; No.29 on hand rails, trussrods and truck iron; and No.63 for truck striping.

The interior is painted standard colors No.19 on hat racks and seats and No.33 on the floor.

Pullman sleepers are painted with standard colors No.30 for priming, No.1 for exterior finishing; No.4 (ground) and No.5 (finish) together on exterior bands; No.29 on band centers, panels, hand rails, truss roads and truck iron; No.82 and No.80 for lettering, figuring and ornamentation; No.7 and No.8 for shading the lettering; No.11 for the faux mahogany grain on the window sashes; No.2 or No.31 on roof and underframe; No.3 on trucks and platforms and No.63 for striping and lettering on trucks.

The interior of Pullman sleepers is painted with standard color No.33 on the floor.

"List of Standard Paints," Union Pacific Railway Standard Paints and Colors 1887 pp5-8.

1894

Passenger coaches painted light yellow.

1895

Passenger cars repainted to Van Dyke Brown.

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

"First Car Finished," The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 May 1899"

1902

The car fleet used on Overland Limited trains, jointly owned by UP, SP, and C&NW, is painted Pullman Standard color.

Railway Age 4 April 1902.

1903

Passenger cars are painted CS-1 Dark Olive on the bodies, vestibules, and windows; CS-2 Olive Enamel on the trucks, platforms, steps and battery boxes; heater pipes and signal lines painted CS-4 Maroon; buffer faces, diaphragm face plates, handrails and grab irons, and wheels are CS-7 Black Varnish and roofs are painted CS-13 Carbon Black.

Union Pacific Specification CS-22: Paint - Numerical List of Paints and their Uses. Adopted December 1903, revised 20 January 1923.

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

1887

Station signs are painted with white lettering on a black background. Mileage markers on station signs are painted with white lettering on a red background.

1889

Western Union Company replaced the two pole lines on Union Pacific right-of-way between Omaha and Ogden with a single pole line. The poles were painted white.

Salt Lake Herald-Republican, 19 March 1883.

1890

Machinery used in repair, car and machine shops on the Union Pacific is painted gray. Documentation as to when this practice was implemented has not been found yet.

Railway Master Mechanic, May 1891 p62.

1891

The interior of the Logan, Utah depot was finished in oiled natural wood. The roof was painted mineral brown.

Salt Lake Herald-Republican, 13 March 1891

Machinery in all Union Pacific machine shops is painted green with brown facings and yellow pinstriping to create a "panel appearance." Wheels and gears are painted red. Cheyenne was the first location to receive these new colors.

Railway Master Mechanic, May 1891 p62.

Machinery at the Salt Lake shops is painted green with "dark wine" and yellow striping in relief.

The interior of the Salt Lake City roundhouse is whitewashed. The doors are painted Venetian Red with black posts.

"Rumbles of the Railroads," Salt Lake Daily Tribune 13 May 1891.

1901

The depot and freight house in Park City Utah are repainted in a "red, red color."

Park Record, Park City, 23 November 1901

1910

Railroad buildings adopt Common Standard 22 specifications: CS 201 Colonial Yellow exterior walls, CS 202 Light Brown trim, CS 210 and CS 211 Slate Color for roofs. Interiors are painted CS 203 Cream from the wainscotting to the ceiling, CS 202 Light Brown on wainscotting, and CS 213 Gray Floor Paint on porches and other floors exposed to weather.

On buildings where smoke discoloration is a noticeable problem, building exteriors are painted CS 11-A Dark Brown with black window sashes.

Plain wood seats in depots are painted CS-4 Maroon.

Union Pacific Specification CS-22: Paint - Numerical List of Paints and their Uses. Adopted December 1903, revised 20 January 1923.

1946

Two-tone gray scheme with white trim is adopted for depots.

1956

Building exteriors are painted white with light green windows, trim and lower walls.

1968

Remaining wooden buildings are painted white with black windows.

1887 Standard Color List

• No.1 - Outside finishing color for passenger and sleeping cars. Used for all passenger equipment, including Pullman sleepers.
• No.2 - Perfect method freight car color. This paint is composed of one-half English Venetian red and one-half Prince's metallic in boiled oil
• No.3 - Standard truck and platform color. Used on all passenger car equipment.
• No.4 - Ground color for scarlet lake, on belt rails and patches on passenger cars and sleepers. This paint is Indian red, used on all passenger car equipment
• No.5 - Scarlet lake for belt rails and patches on passenger cars and sleepers. Used on all passenger car equipment.
• No.6 - Lettering color for emigrant sleepers, ornaments on coaches and lettering for locomotives. This paint is used on all passenger car equipment and for lettering and numbering on locomotives.
• No.7 - Light shading color for lettering on all passenger car equipment. Used for all passenger car equipment.
• No.8 - Dark shading color for lettering all passenger car equipment.
• No.9 - Ground color for maple graining.
• No.10 - Maple graining.
• No.11 - Ground color for mahogany graining.
• No.12 - Mahogany graining
• No.13 - Ground color for walnut graining.
• No.14 - Walnut graining.
• No.15 - Ground color for light oak graining.
• No.16 - Light oak graining.
• No.17 - Ground color for French walnut graining.
• No.18 - French walnut graining.
• No.19 - Hat rack and seat color. Used for all passenger car equipment.
• No.20 - Outside caboose color. Abandoned September 9th, 1886. (See No.32)
• No.21 - Inside wall caboose color and outside trimming, shading of letters and numbers. This color abandoned as shading color for letters and figures December 4th, 1886. (See No.89.) [Sample on page 10 indicates that this is a dark slate green.]
• No.22 - Caboose lettering color.
• No.23 - Ceiling color, emigrant, sleepers, cabooses, mail, express and baggage. [Sample on page 10 indicates that this is a gray.]
• No.24 - Refrigerator car body color. [Sample on page 10 indicates that this is a green.]
• No.25 - Refrigerator car trimming color. [Sample on page 10 indicates that this is a dark green.]
• No.26 - Caboose signal ball color.
• No.27 - Black walnut stain.
• No.28 - Whitewood shellacked and varnished.
• No.29 - Ivory drop black "R," in japan.
• No.30 - White lead.
• No.31 - Freight car color. This paint is Rawlins' Mineral Red.
• No.32 - Outside caboose color. This color to be used in place of No.20. Was adopted as the standard September 9th, 1886.
• No.33 - Floor color for coaches, emigrant, mail, baggage and express cars.
• No.34 - Locomotive cab, inside, baggage wagon and warehouse truck color. Chrome green, extra choach.
• No.35 - Raw Turkey Umber, in oil.
• No.36 - Raw Turkey Umber, in japan.
• No.37 - Burnt Turkey Umber, in oil.
• No.38 - Burnt Turkey Umber, in japan.
• No.39 - Raw Italian Sienna, in oil.
• No.40 - Raw Italian Sienna, in japan.
• No.41 - Burnt Italian Sienna, in oil.
• No.42 - Burnt Italian Sienna, in japan.
• No.43 - Vandyke Brown, in oil.
• No.44 - Vandyke Brown, in japan.
• No.45 - Golden Ochre, in oil.
• No.46 - Golden Ochre, in japan.
• No.47 - English Tuscan Red, in oil.
• No.48 - English Tuscan Red, in japan.
• No.49 - Chrome yellow, in oil, dark.
• No.50 - Old standard depot outside body color. [Sample on page 12 indicates that this is a light oxide red.]
• No.51 - Old standard depot outside sash color. [Sample on page 12 indicates that this is a dark green.]
• No.52 - Old standard depot outside window casing color. [Sample on page 13 indicates that this is a brown.]
• No.53 - Old standard depot outside body color, shingle gables. [Sample on page 13 indicates that this is a green.]
• No.54 - New standard outside body color for depots, hotels, tenement and section houses.
• No.55 - New standard outside trimming color for depots, hotels, tenement and section houses.
• No.56 - New standard outside trimming color for depots, hotels, tenement and section houses.
• No.57 - New standard inside color for depots and hotels.
• No.58 - New standard inside color for depots and hotels.
• No.59 - New standard inside color for depots and hotels.
• No.60 - New standard inside body color for tenement and section houses.
• No.61 - New standard inside trimming color for tenement and section houses.
• No.62 - New standard inside trimming color for tenement and section houses.
• No.63 - Outside white for freight car trimmings.
• No.64 - Prussian Blue, in oil.
• No.65 - S.-W. Co. refined lamp black, dry.
• No.66 - Lamp black, in oil and japan.
• No.67 Main smoke stack paint. This is a cheap black used for locomotive front ends, ash pans, etc. and for water tank spouts and steam heating pipes. [p.33 indicates that this is an asphaltum paint sold as a liquid in barrels.]
• No.68 - Chrome Yellow, medium, in oil.
• No.69 - Chrome Yellow, light, in oil.
• No.70 - Ivory Drop Black, in distemper.
• No.71 - Raw Turkey Umber, in distemper.
• No.72 - Burnt Turkey Umber, in distemper.
• No.73 - Raw Italian Sienna, in distemper.
• No.74 - Burnt Italian Sienna, in distemper.
• No.75 - Vandyke Brown, in distemper.
• No.76 - Ultramarine Blue, dry.
• No.77 - English Red Lead, dry.
• No.78 - English Vermilion, dry.
• No.79 - Black Smalts, dry.
• No.80 - Hastings' XX Gold Leaf.
• No.81 - Noble & Hoare's English Filling or Rough Stuff, dry.
• No.82 - Noble & Hoare's Gold Size.
• No.83 - Gold Lining Bronze, dry.
• No.84 - Burnt Turkey Umber, dry.
• No.85 - Raw Turkey Umber, dry.
• No.86 - Burnt Italian Sienna, dry.
• No.87 - Raw Italian Sienna, dry.
• No.88 - White Lead, dry.
• No.89 - Caboose shading color, letters and figures. This color to be used in place of No. 21 for shading of letters and figures.
• No.90 - Chrome Green, in oil, dark.
• No.91 - Chrome green, in oil, medium.
• No.92 - Chrome Green, in oil, light.
• No.93 - Lamp Black, in oil.

"List of Standard Paints," Union Pacific Railway Standard Paints and Colors 1887 pp5-8.

1890 Standard Color List

• No.6 - Imitation gold
• No.8 - Yellow
• No.29 - Ivory Black
• No.30 - White lead
• No.32 - when mixed with No.30 makes "gold"
• No.34 - Green
• No.65 - Eddie's Lamp-black
• No.77 - English Red Lead
• No.95 - Johnson's Magnetic Paint
• No.97 - Prince's Metallic Paint
• No.98 - Mineral Paint

1903 Common Standard CS-22 Color List

• No.1 - Dark Olive
• No.2 - Olive Enamel
• No.4 - Maroon
• NO.5 - Burnt Sienna in Japan
• No.7 - Black varnish
• No.8 - Refrigerator Yellow
• No.9 - Drab Enamel
• No.10 - Pearl Gray
• No.11 - Metallic
• No.11A - Dark Brown
• No.12 - White Lead
• No.12B - Semaphore White Enamel
• No.12C - White
• No.13 - Carbon Black
• No.14 - Drop Black
• No.15 - Green Enamel
• No.16 - Aluminum Leaf
• No.17 - Lamp Black
• No.18 - Gold Leaf
• No.20 - Red Lead
• No.23 - Postal Car Brown
• No.24 - Hard Wood Filler
• No.26 - Aluminum Paint
• No.27 - Copper Bronze Paint
• No.28 - Light Cream Flat Enamel
• No.28A - Light Cream Gloss
• No.29 - White Enamel Flat
• No.29A - White Enamel Gloss
• No.30 - Dark Green Flat
• No.31 - Light Green Flat
• No.201 - Colonial Yellow
• No.202 - Light Brown
• No.203 - Cream
• No.205 - Semaphore Vermilion
• No.205A - Vermilion
• No.206 - Semaphore Yellow
• No.210 - Slate Color
• No.211 - Slate Color Stain
• No.213 - Gray Floor Paint
• No.214 - Asphalt Roof Coating
• No.215 - White Interior Cold Water Paint
• No.216 - Semaphore Black
• No.217 - Semaphore Green
• No.218 - Semaphore Blue
• No.218A - Blue
• No.219 - Gold Bronze

1927 Revisions to CS-22 Color List

• No.8 - Refrigerator Light Orange Paint
• No.8A - Refrigerator Light Orange Enamel
• No.8B - Refrigerator Yellow (for repairs on old cars)

Reference / Historic Railroad Paint Color Index / Union Pacific Railroad Paint Information