Duluth South Shore & Atlantic Paint Information

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Passenger Cars

1895

Coaches have no striping and the ends are painted jet black, claimed to uphold a clean appearance during the winter when coal-infused greasy snow slush is splattered by the wheels in transit.

"In the Northern Peninsula of Michigan," Locomotive Engineering February 1895 pg. 69

1901

Passenger coaches painted vermilion.

The Duluth News Tribune (Duluth, MN), 20 November 1901

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