Central Railroad of New Jersey Paint Information

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Freight Cars

1879

CNJ coal cars painted dark brown.

The Semi-Weekly New Era (Lancaster, PA), 3 May, 1879

1889

CNJ boxcars painted buff with brown trimming (roofs?) and black lettering.

Harrisburg Telegraph (Harrisburg, PA), 17 April 1889

1892

Freight cars repainted from yellow to dark brown.

The Courier-News (Bridgewater, NJ), 14 December 1893

1896

An observer most likely referring to older freight cars: "The company’s roundel is most likely bright red surrounded by white (with pink being a faded red)."

The Daily Morning Journal and Courier, 15 December 1896

1899

CNJ gondolas painted a “coal black.”

The Scranton Tribune (Scranton, PA), 13 May 1899

Passenger Equipment

1888

Passenger cars are painted yellow; parlor cars are painted black and gold.

The New York Tribune (New York, NY), 26 August 1888

1892

CNJ starts to paint passenger cars in “the Reading’s” brown, with gold trimmings.

The Philadelphia Record (Philadelphia, PA), 28 June 1892

1893

CNJ standard passenger cars painted “Pullman color.”

The National Car and Locomotive Builder, June 1893, pg. 90

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