Missouri Pacific Railway Paint Information
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Freight Cars
1893
Standard 60,000 lb capacity boxcars painted with “Sherwin & Williams’ Perfect Method of Freight Car Paint.”
Railroad Car Journal, June 1893
Locomotives
1881
Ten new locomotives built by the Hinkley Locomotive Works are painted black, including the jacketed parts that are normally polished iron.
American Railroad Journal 28 May 1881 pg. 610
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