Memphis & Charleston Railroad Paint Information
From PacificNG
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Passenger Cars
1859
Sleeping cars, of the Gothic style, painted straw and striped with bright red. The “centresides of the cars are ‘set off’ with landscape scenes.”
Dayton Daily Empire (Dayton, OH), 13 August 1859
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