Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Paint Information

Freight Cars

1880

GR&I lumber boxcars painted light drab.

The Evening Leader (Grand Rapids, MI), 10 April 1880

1878 to 1898

GR&I freight cars painted “french gray,” commonly called “drab.”

1898

GR&I freight cars painted a “faded red.”

1886

GR&I Woodruff sleeping cars, “Manistee” and “Crestline,” painted “in imitation of mahogany, trimmed in gold.”

The Fort Wayne Daily News (Fort Wayne, IN), 10 July 1886

1890

GR&I passenger cars painted “the prevailing color used by the Pullman company - the dark.”