Union Pacific Railroad Paint Information
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Reference / Historic Railroad Paint Color Index
Locomotives
Freight Cars
1896
Iron and other metal parts on rolling stock painted with Hanion Brothers & Co. "Antoxide" paint (black).
Railroad Car Journal August 1896'
Passenger Equipment
1868
First and Second Class passenger cars and the paymaster's car are painted a wine color.
The Gold Hill Daily News (Gold Hill, NV), 22 January 1868.
1870
Passenger cars painted "Quaker Drab."
Railroad Gazette, 22 October 1870, pg. 73.
1894
Passenger coaches painted light yellow.
1895
Passenger cars repainted to Van Dyke Brown.
The Kansas City Journal (Kansas City, MO), 28 October 1895