Central Vermont Railroad Paint Information
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Freight Cars
1886
CV butter cars painted “a very delicate shade of pink.”
The Burlington Free Press (Burlington, VT), 2 April 1886
1889
CV coal cars marked “George Hall Lake and Rail Line” painted black with white lettering.
Burlington Free Press (Burlington, VT), 29 November 1889
Cabooses
1882
CV saloon cars begin to be painted vermilion red.
St. Albans Daily Messenger (St. Albans, VT), 11 July 1882
St. Albans Weekly Messenger (St. Albans, VT), 28 July 1882
Passenger Equipment
1864
Vermont Central “ladies car” painted in imitation of rosewood with gilt trimmings and paintings on the panels (portraits of railroad company trustees).
Vermont Journal (Windsor, VT) 19 March 1864
1870
Vermont Central passenger coach painted yellow, with corners and window-casings painted a “deep orange color,” outside molding and window-caps painted bronze green, and striping in blue and black.
The St. Albans Messenger (St. Albans, VT), 24 June 1870
Vermont Central sleeping car “St. Albans” painted yellow, with “caps and corners of bronze green and orange color, and stripings of lavender, white, carmine, green, black and gold.”
The St. Albans Weekly (St. Albans, VT), 7 October 1870
1871
Vermont Central Pullman sleeping cars, “Saint Albans” (a different car than the one described in 1870), “Montpelier,” “Concord,” and “Nashua,” painted a “very dark, almost black color; and the striping and ornamenting, which is very profuse, being almost wholly gold, with a little red and green interspersed.”
St. Albans Daily Messenger (St. Albans, VT), 16 July 1871
1877
CV Wagner sleeping car painted dark olive with striping and ornamentation in gold leaf, green, carmine lake, and vermillion. Panel mouldings in drop black, edged in bronze green. Lettering in gold, shaded with carmine lake, vermillion, and black. Trucks painted Indian red, striped with pale green.
The Burlington Weekly Free Press (Burlington, VT), 25 May 1877
1881
CV Pullman palace cars painted dark olive green, richly ornamented in “gold and colors.”
Argus and Patriot (Montpelier, VT), 31 January 1881
Passenger cars are repainted from "bright straw yellow" to a “rich olive brown.”
Swanton Courier (Swanton, VT), 5 February 1881
St. Albans Daily Messenger (St. Albans, VT), 6 April 1881
Passenger cars on CV train, the “New York & White Mountains,” painted dark, lettered with gold leaf.
The Vermont Watchman and State Journal, 29 June 1881
CV baggage car painted the “olive shade now used on all the company’s cars.”
St. Albans Daily Messenger (St. Albans, VT), 8 November 1881
1882
CV passenger cars on the “Boston & Montreal Express” are painted olive and old gold.
St. Albans Daily Messenger and Advertiser (St. Albans, VT), 27 April 1882
1883
Pullman sleeping cars built for Central Vermont are painted dark green with gold leaf ornamentation. The interior is polished mahogany. The interior ceiling around the clerestory is finished in bronze leather with old gold relief.
"Elegant Cars on the Central Vermont," Railway Age 1 February 1883.
1887
CV passenger coaches, baggage car, and mail car painted “Pullman brown, to be uniform with all the cars to be used on this line.”
St. Albans Daily Messenger (St. Albans, VT), 7 April 1887
1888
CV baggage and express car painted “the ‘Pullman’ color,” with trimmings in gold leaf. Lettering in a new style.
Rutland Weekly Herald (Rutland, VT), 7 June 1888
1896
CV passenger cars painted “a very pretty shade of red.”
The Vermont Phœnix (Brattleboro, VT), 13 March 1896
1900
CV passenger cars and baggage car painted bottle green.
Barre Evening Telegram (Barre, VT), 18 August 1900