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Portland & Rochester Railroad Paint Information
Freight cars painted lead colour. Freight cars painted lead colour with ends painted vermillion.

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Louisville & Nashville Railroad Paint Information
The L&N tests National Paint Works No.700 Red Lead & Graphite paint on a bridge. 3,200 gallons of National Paint Works No.700 Red Lead & Graphite paint is ordered to paint bridges universally.

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Canadian Pacific Railway Paint Information
Freight cars painted buff (yellow ochre + white lead) with blackened ironwork. Photographs generally show buff-coloured cars wit *Primed with one coat lead colour mixed half and half with turpentine.

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Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Paint Information
Baggage cars painted dark yellow (a mix of white lead and golden stone ochre), with plain stripes.

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Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Paint Information
...oal car 13706 is painted in two coats of slow-hardening asphalt with white lead lettering. Asphalt tars caused extreme scaling in the steel under the paint ...oal car 13552 is painted one coat Carbon Enamel Paint Specialty with white lead lettering. This paint turned the white lettering yellowish brown color afte

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Northern Pacific Railroad Paint Information
Cabooses painted right red lead. Coaches painted light straw with lead colored trimming. Posts and panels are black striped with gold leaf.

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John Harford's Railroad
...the lumber trade, and as a result failed by 1872. A new consortium, again lead by John Harford, this time including at least one Steamer Captain purchased ...protected lee of Point San Luis. It was this project that would eventually lead to what is known as the Pacific Coast Railroad. The new project was built s

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Mining Railroads of Nevada
...away on the Colorado river. Discovery of a water source close to the mine lead to the construction of a new mill near the mine in 1906. Operations ceased '''[[:Category:36in Gauge Railroads|36in Gauge]].'''Constructed to tap lead and manganese deposits west of Jean. The railroad hauled ore from the mines

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Yellow Pine Mining Company
...d basis and the mines would reopen fully during the early 1940s to produce lead and zinc. In 1942 the Coronado Copper and Zinc company purchased the mines Geologic Controls of Lead and Zinc Deposits in Goodspring (Yellow Pine) District, Nevada.

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Boston & Maine Paint Information
Box cars painted lead color, or slate, with mineral brown roofs, black ironwork, and yellow block "Lead Color" was given as being a mix of Keg Lead (white) and lampblack.

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Common Carrier Railroads of Washington
...stle and Franklin to the company wharf in Seattle. Financial complications lead to the line being standard gauged in 1897.

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Utah Railway: Paint Information
...e coat white enamel and are lettered in black. Steel posts are painted red lead followed by one coat black from bottom of post to 6 inches above the ground

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Great Western Railway of Canada Paint Information
GWR oil tank cars were painted brown ochre, with the tank painted white lead.

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Wagner Palace Car Company Paint Information
A Detroit White Lead Company catalog distributed to the Master Car Painter's Meeting in Detroit

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Dupont Powder Works
...ility of both methods of propulsion, causing explosions due to derailment, lead the company to quickly convert to mechanical power. In July 1910 the first

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U.S. Potash Company
...d’s supply is mined. Until this discovery, most potash was imported, which lead to shortages and high prices during World War I. A significant potash depos

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Seattle Coal & Transportation Company
...higher freight rates if in exchange the railroad would pay the debt. This lead to the railroad entering receivership, and eventually in November 1880 both ...sportation over debts owed by the railroad to the coal company and in part lead to the sale of both to Villard.

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Ko'olau Railway
On July 5th, 1905 a group of Honolulu businessmen lead by James B. Campbell formed an association and filed with the Treasurer of

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Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago & St Louis (Big Four) Paint Information
A Detroit White Lead Company catalog distributed at the Master Car Painters' meeting in Detroit

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White Pass & Yukon Railway
...gold mining began to decline, other minerals, such as copper, silver, and lead became commercially viable. These minerals were extracted, shipped by River ...ctric locomotives from General Electric (GE) in 1954. The success of which lead to the road operating 11 diesel-electric locomotives by 1966. In 1969 furth

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