Jackson & Sharp Company Paint Information
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1883
The private car Fredonia built for Colonel J. Condit Smith, general manager of the Chicago & Atlantic Railroad, is painted dark sage green with gold ornamentation. The interior is polished cherrywood with bird's eye maple head linings on the ceiling.
"A Model Private Car," Railway Review 31 March 1883.
Two new dining cars built by Jackson & Sharp for the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad are painted "the regulation ochre shade of the road".
Company Scrapbook vol. 7: 1882-1883 p183.
1899
Four sleeping cars built for the Florida East Coast are painted orange with no ornamentation apart from the lettering. Two are upholstered in olive and the other two in turquoise. The window curtains are olive and old gold silk with fleur-de-lis patterns. The interior is polished mahogany.
Railroad Car Journal March 1899 p61.