Difference between revisions of "Wisconsin Central Paint Information"
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Road numbers on locomotives are painted within a red shield, which employees refer to as the "liver pad." | Road numbers on locomotives are painted within a red shield, which employees refer to as the "liver pad." | ||
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==Passenger Cars== | ==Passenger Cars== | ||
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Reference / Historic Railroad Paint Color Index / Wisconsin Central TOC
Locomotives
1888
Road numbers on locomotives are painted within a red shield, which employees refer to as the "liver pad."
"Railroad Notes," The Colorado Exchange Journal, 28 July 1888.
Passenger Cars
1882
Smoking cars painted straw, with corner boards and letter-boards painted a light umber. Bevelled corners of batten strips on the car sides painted black. Car ornamentation in “Egyptian designs.”
National Car Builder, February 1882, pg. 14
Reference / Historic Railroad Paint Color Index / Wisconsin Central