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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=Northern_Central_Railway_Paint_Information" title="Northern Central Railway Paint Information">Northern Central Railway</a> &lt;span style=&quot;float:right;&quot;&gt;TOC&lt;/span&gt; ==Freig...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Reference]] / [[Historic Railroad Paint Color Index]] / [[Northern Central Railway Paint Information|Northern Central Railway]]<br /> &lt;span style=&quot;float:right;&quot;&gt;TOC&lt;/span&gt;<br /> ==Freight Cars==<br /> <br /> '''1852'''<br /> <br /> Freight car specifications call for “dark brown paint and metal lettering.”<br /> <br /> ''Unknown 1852 Northern Central Railway specifications, referenced in White, The American Railroad Freight Car, 1993, pg. 184 [Location of these specs to be determined].''<br /> <br /> ==Passenger Cars==<br /> <br /> '''1857'''<br /> <br /> Passenger car used to convey U.S. President Buchanan painted buff, with panel stripes of vermilion, brown, and orange. Platform, railings, and brake wheels bronzed.<br /> <br /> ''[https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn87090234/1857-03-07/ed-1/seq-3/ The Daily Constitutionalist (Augusta, GA), 7 March 1857]''<br /> <br /> '''1865'''<br /> <br /> Directors’ car painted light claret and striped in different shades of green. Trucks painted green and striped with yellow.<br /> <br /> ''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gFpyOFYxbi_zXTSt5Ctpassk63zngCXu/view?usp=sharing The York Gazette (York, PA) 9 May 1865]''<br /> <br /> '''1867'''<br /> <br /> Passenger coach painted a deep red, “elaborately lettered and gilded,” running gear painted black, and trucks painted green with orange and red striping.<br /> <br /> ''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zBDsiKlToSjpXzVyS2Vs5SETRJtRS8SB/view?usp=sharing The Harrisburg Telegraph (Harrisburg, PA), 21 January 1867]''<br /> <br /> '''1873'''<br /> <br /> Passenger cars painted the company’s “standard color,” Tuscan red.<br /> <br /> ''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V_ski5Jdl1UelirFlmMqAeegjAHWB9cX/view?usp=sharing The York Daily (York, PA) 3 January 1873]''<br /> <br /> Passenger cars painted a “brownish crimson,” set off with stripes of gold.<br /> <br /> ''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U426KbGeC_Vt0WstX08B9UEyHk2OdAAt/view?usp=sharing The National Car Builder, August 1873, pg. 190]''<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Reference]] / [[Historic Railroad Paint Color Index]] / [[Northern Central Railway Paint Information|Northern Central Railway]]</div>

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