Quebec Montreal Ottawa & Occidental Railway Paint Information

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Locomotives

1879

4-4-0 locomotive "C.A. Scott" built by Baldwin Locomotive Company painted bottle green and colour, Style 58, and lettered as Q.M.O. & O.R.

Baldwin Locomotive Works engine specifications, Volume 9, pg. 132

Passenger Cars

1879

Pullman drawing-room cars painted a “deep tinge of rose color.”

The Montreal Evening Post (Montreal, QC), 4 June 1879

Pullman drawing-room cars painted Munich lake with olive green and gold facings (these are the same two cars referenced in the above excerpt).

The Montreal Daily Witness (Montreal, QC), 11 June 1879

First-class passenger car painted dark yellow, striped with red lake. Each car side features a “handsomely painted panel.”

The Montreal Evening Post (Montreal, QC), 29 July 1879 The Montreal Gazette (Montreal, QC), 30 July 1879

Reference / Historic Railroad Paint Color Index / Quebec Montreal Ottawa & Occidental Railway