Louisville & Nashville Railroad Paint Information

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Freight Cars

1881

L&N Stock Cars had their roofs covered with a mixture of “4-Ace” paint and coal-tar spirits.

The National Car Builder, September 1881, pg. 102

1882

L&N fruit cars painted the “standard passenger car color.”

Birmingham Iron Age (Birmingham, AL), 23 March 1882

Structures

1904

The L&N tests National Paint Works No.700 Red Lead & Graphite paint on a bridge.

[Cheeseman, Frank P. The Review of Technical Paints. New York: Cheeseman & Elliot, 1915.]

1909

3,200 gallons of National Paint Works No.700 Red Lead & Graphite paint is ordered to paint bridges universally.

[Cheeseman, Frank P. The Review of Technical Paints. New York: Cheeseman & Elliot, 1915.]

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