Tiffany Refrigerator Car Paint Information

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Reference / Historic Railroad Paint Color Index

Tiffany Patent Refrigerator Cars

1883

Union Pacific specifies a light green color for refrigerator cars of all types and patents with a darker green fascia and mineral red roofs, underframe and trucks. Lettering in black. This paint scheme would have applied to all of Union Pacific's subsidiary railroads, including the Denver South Park & Pacific.

Sherwin-Williams Union Pacific Paint Catalog, collection of Randy Hees

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1887

All refrigerator cars on the Union Pacific system are painted according to the standards regardless of patent.

Illustration from the 1887 standards book.

1889

Some Tiffany "Summer and Winter" refrigerator cars are painted pure white.

The Daily Optic (Las Vegas, NM), 12 February 1889

1894

Lehigh Valley Railroad specifies a light green color (Standard No. 10) for Tiffany and Wickes refrigerator car bodies.

Lehigh Valley paint chip set showing the green used on Tiffany refrigerator cars, from the collection of the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.

Lehigh Valley R.R. Standard Colors for Locomotive & Car Department, 22 May 1894 (Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania Collections)

Reference / Historic Railroad Paint Color Index

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