Western & Atlantic Railroad Paint Information
Reference / Historic Railroad Paint Color Index
Locomotives
1867
Locomotive number 73 "Kennesaw" ordered from Baldwin painted bronze green striped with vermilion. Wheels are black with gold striping. Lettering is gold leaf. Striping was in the "Best fancy passenger finish."
Baldwin Locomotive Works Paint Data, 1857-1870 vol.4 p.23. Southern Methodist University Collection.
1888
Locomotives are painted Brunswick Green with lettering and ornamentation in gold and carmine.
"A description of the Gov. Jos. E. Brown will describe all of them...the locomotive is painted Brunswick green - looking almost black as it stands in the paint shop. The lettering and ornamentation are in gold and carmine."
Kennesaw Gazette, 1 October 1888
Freight Cars
1852
Boxcars and platform cars built in the Georgia Penitentiary are painted a “yellow color.”
Southern Banner (Athens, GA), 11 November 1852