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Reference / Historic Railroad Paint Color Index
Tiffany Patent Refrigerator 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
See also C&SNG Discussion Forum
1889
Some Tiffany "Summer and Winter" refrigerator cars are painted pure white.
The Daily Optic (Las Vegas, NM), 12 February 1889
1894
Lehigh Valley Railroad specifies a light green color (Standard No. 10) for Tiffany and Wickes refrigerator car bodies.