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<p>Created page with &quot;<a href="/w/index.php?title=Reference" title="Reference">Reference</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Historic_Railroad_Paint_Color_Index" title="Historic Railroad Paint Color Index">Historic Railroad Paint Color Index</a> / <a href="/w/index.php?title=Fitchburg_Railroad_Paint_Information" title="Fitchburg Railroad Paint Information">Fitchburg Railroad</a> &lt;span style=&quot;float:right;&quot;&gt;TOC&lt;/span&gt; ==Freight Cars== &#039;...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Reference]] / [[Historic Railroad Paint Color Index]] / [[Fitchburg Railroad Paint Information|Fitchburg Railroad]]<br /> &lt;span style=&quot;float:right;&quot;&gt;TOC&lt;/span&gt;<br /> ==Freight Cars==<br /> <br /> '''1875'''<br /> <br /> Fitchburg through line cars built by Laconia are painted “coffee brown” and lettered in white for “Hoosac Tunnel Line - Fitchburg Railroad - No Transhipment between New England and the West.”<br /> <br /> ''American Railroad Journal, 17 April 1875, p508''<br /> <br /> '''1878'''<br /> <br /> Fitchburg boxcars painted light green. This excerpt is possibly referring to Fitchburg grain cars.<br /> <br /> ''The Worcester Daily Spy (Worcester, MA), 30 July 1878''<br /> <br /> '''1881'''<br /> <br /> Fitchburg constructed butter cars painted stone with a bright red stripe extending around the cars at the base of their sheathing. The cars’ corners were painted red, fascia-boards painted blue, and lettered in black with green shade. The lettering on the cars possibly included the place names “North Adams,” “Shelburne Falls,” “Greenfield,” and “West Acton.”<br /> <br /> ''The Fitchburg Sentinel, 31 March 1881''<br /> <br /> '''1889'''<br /> <br /> “Old-fashioned” Fitchburg grain boxcar painted green.<br /> <br /> ''The Pratt Republican (Pratt, KS), 19 December 1889''<br /> <br /> '''Note:''' Sechrist’s Hand-Book and Railway Equipment and Mileage Guide, June 1885 lists “Green Grain” cars for the Fitchburg Railroad.<br /> <br /> '''1890'''<br /> <br /> Fitchburg platform cars painted slate.<br /> <br /> ''The New Hampshire Sentinel (Keene, NH), 12 November 1890''<br /> <br /> '''1891'''<br /> <br /> Reportedly using Prince’s Metallic on freight cars.<br /> <br /> ''[https://archive.org/details/rustingofironste00prin/page/12/mode/2up The rusting of iron and steel: how it may be prevented and how it is promoted, 1895]''<br /> <br /> '''1896'''<br /> <br /> An observer notes that Fitchburg cars were usually yellow (likely referring to older boxcars).<br /> <br /> ''[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020358/1896-12-15/ed-1/seq-3/ The Daily Morning Journal and Courier, 15 December 1896]''<br /> <br /> ==Passenger Cars==<br /> <br /> '''1882'''<br /> <br /> Fitchburg passenger cars painted yellow, with the exterior of the cars being “plain.”<br /> <br /> ''[https://books.google.ca/books?id=WvYzAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=PA9#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false The Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, MA), 24 July 1882]''<br /> <br /> Fitchburg passenger coaches painted straw, “with but little ornamentation.”<br /> <br /> ''[https://catalog.lindahall.org/discovery/delivery/01LINDAHALL_INST/1286056230005961?lang=en The National Car Builder, September 1882, pg. 101]''<br /> <br /> '''1884'''<br /> <br /> Fitchburg passenger cars painted dark olive green, the new standard colour for all cars of the company.<br /> <br /> ''The Boston Daily Advertiser (Boston, MA), 5 February 1884''<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Reference]] / [[Historic Railroad Paint Color Index]] / [[Fitchburg Railroad Paint Information|Fitchburg Railroad]]</div>

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