Union Tank Line: Paint Information
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Reference / Historic Railroad Paint Color Index
Freight Cars
1873
Tank cars built by the Harrisburg Car Manufacturing Company were painted with white tanks, blue domes and red ends and frames.
Lancaster Intelligencer (Lancaster, PA), 2 April 1873
1877
A new batch of tank cars from the same manufacturer was painted the same.
Pittsburgh Commercial and Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA), 8 May 1877
1880s
White, 1993 states that UTL cars were painted red through the 1880s up until 1912, when they started to be painted black.