Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Paint Information
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Freight Cars
1879
Refrigerator cars painted bright yellow and “handsomely lettered.”
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The Daily Nonpareil (Council Bluffs, IA), 3 June 1879
1894
Refrigerator fruit cars painted orange.
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The Indianapolis Journal (Indianapolis, IN), 7 February 1894
1895
Ventilator and refrigerator cars painted bright yellow with black, red, and blue lettering.
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The Rock Island Argus (Rock Island, IL) 25 January 1895
1905
Refrigerator cars painted white with black stencilling.
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The Goodland Republic (Goodland, KS), 24 March 1905
1925
The CRI&P reports purchasing "Refrigerator Car Yellow" in semipaste form.
"42.88 Yellow, cream and straw pigments," National Directory of Commodity Specifications, Department of Commerce Bureau of Standards: 1925
Passenger Equipment
? to 1872
Passenger cars painted buff.
1872
Passenger cars begin to be painted a “darker shade.”
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The Daily Argus (Rock Island, IL) 6 February 1872
1880
Passenger car paint was a mix of golden ochre, drop black, and Tuscan red.
The National Car Builder, November 1880
1888
Passenger cars, including Pullman cars, painted olive and gold.
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Horton Daily Headlight (Horton, KS) 16 May 1888
1957
Low-cost baggage cars built new by the CR&P are painted as follows:
"Underframe and interiors of sides. ends and roof are painted with standard freight car primer. In addition the underframe is painted with freight car black paint. The lower part of the side and end _ structure and sheathing, and the sub-floor assembly are painted with Rustoleum. The exteriors of the sides. ends. doors and roof receive one coat of red oxide primer and two coats of Dulux aluminum gray paint. The plywood lining is painted with one coat of primer and sealer followed by two coats of RPO green enamel. The ceiling is finished in high glass white enamel. The black stencilling is sprayed."
"New Approach to 'Head End' Problem," Railway Locomotives and Cars January 1957 p46.
Structures
1915
National Paint Works No. 400 Carbon Black is used on bridges.
Cheeseman, Frank P. The Review of Technical Paint. New York: Cheeseman & Elliot, 1915.
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