Tiffany Refrigerator Car Paint Information

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Reference / Historic Railroad Paint Color Index

Tiffany Patent Refrigerator Cars

Lehigh Valley paint chip set showing the green used on Tiffany refrigerator cars, from the collection of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.

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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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.

Lehigh Valley R.R. Standard Colors for Locomotive & Car Department, 22 May 1894 (Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania Collections)

Reference / Historic Railroad Paint Color Index

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