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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

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+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.”
+''[https://catalog.lindahall.org/discovery/delivery/01LINDAHALL_INST/1286056230005961?lang=en|The National Car Builder, February 1882, pg. 14]''
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