New York New Haven & Hartford Paint Information
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Freight Cars
1889
Fast freight cars to run between New York and Boston painted dark olive, lettered in white.
Morning Journal and Courier (New Haven, CT), 15 March 1889
1894
NYNH&H coal cars painted dark brown.
The Evening Bulletin (Providence, RI), 28 December 1894
1895
“Consolidated System” freight cars painted bright red, and have the “monogram of the Consolidated system painted in white on each side in place of the old block letters.”
The Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, CT), 17 December 1895
1896
NYNH&H cars painted red. The company recently adopted a “scroll” as its trademark, which is painted in white upon its boxcars.
The Daily Morning Journal and Courier, 15 December 1896
Passenger Cars
1881
NYNH&H parlor and passenger cars on the “New York and Newport Shore Line” train painted yellow.
NYNH&H drawing-room cars painted “dark.”
New Haven Daily Morning Journal and Courier (New Haven, CT), 26 May 1886
The Port Chester Journal (Port Chester, NY), 9 June 1881
1882
NYNH&H sleeping cars painted olive brown with gilt lettering.
The Hartford Weekly Times (Hartford, CT), 2 March 1882
NYNH&H painted olive green, “free from fantastic decoration so much in vogue in times past.”
[https://catalog.lindahall.org/discovery/delivery/01LINDAHALL_INST /1286056230005961?lang=en The National Car Builder, September 1882, pg. 118]
1883
NYNH&H passenger coach built by the Pullman Company painted “Pullman color.”
[https://catalog.lindahall.org/discovery/delivery/01LINDAHALL_INST /1286056380005961?lang=en The National Car Builder, July 1883, pg. 80]
1885
New York and Boston express trains of the NYNH&H painted dark olive.
[https://catalog.lindahall.org/discovery/delivery/01LINDAHALL_INST /1286056660005961?lang=en The National Car Builder, April 1885, pg. 43]
1890
NYNH&H passenger cars painted a shade similar to the “familiar brown ‘Pullman’ color, but it is said to be better.”
The Worcester Daily Spy (Worcester, MA), 30 December 1890
1893
Wagner sleeping cars of the NYNH&H “Shore Line Express” painted a dark brown with gold lettering.
The Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA), 12 January 1883
1891 to 1895
NYNH&H passenger cars on the “New England Express” train painted a “solid, dead white.”
The Daily Independent (Elko, NV), 11 July 1891
The Daily Astorian (Astoria, OR), 5 December 1895
1894
NYNH&H passenger cars begin to be painted Quaker green.
The Newtown Bee (Newtown, CT), 19 January 1894
1898
NYNH&H experiments with copper and aluminum to replace the usual car decorations.
The Morning Record (Meriden, CT), 8 March 1898
1901
Passenger cars painted “Quaker green.”
The Daily Advocate (Stamford, CT), 12 March 1901
Structures
1915
National Paint Works No. 400 Carbon Black is used on bridges.
[Cheeseman, Frank P. The Review of Technical Paint. New York: Cheeseman & Elliot, 1915.]
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