Long Island Railroad Paint Information
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Reference / Historic Railroad Paint Color Index / Long Island Railroad TOC
Passenger Cars
1894
Passenger cars painted a dark maroon, the “standard color of the Long Island Railroad.”
[https://catalog.lindahall.org/discovery/delivery/01LINDAHALL_INST /1286055650005961?lang=en The National Car and Locomotive Builder, January 1894, pg. 9]
1898
Locomotive Engineering, March 1898
Reference / Historic Railroad Paint Color Index / Long Island Railroad