varnish lettering

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 Red passenger cars with gold lettering goes back at least to the beginning of control by PRR. BTW: orange window frames did not last on N&W as long as they did on Pennsy, but green trucks lasted longer on N&W than on Pennsy. What the colors were before Pennsy control, I have no way of knowing, but maybe somebody can find some older records.
Jim Nichols
    On Friday, February 16, 2024 at 11:41:17 AM CST, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:  
 
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I am sure Ken will jump in on your question he’s a letter junkie . But far as color is concerned you about got it .  Used silver on passenger locomotives 

for a while. Look for great  article in the “Arrow”   by Charles Schlotthober

  

Larry Evans

  

  

  

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Subject: varnish lettering

  

All,

How far back does Tuscan red with gold lettering go into N&W history?  Was there ever a time when N&W passenger cars were lettered with anything other than gold leaf or gold-colored paint, perhaps white for example?  Also, does anyone have any information on passenger car painting and lettering for the N&W predecessors i.e. N&W RR, AM&O etc.?  I realize this is stretching Mr. Peabody's wayback machine a bit, but I also know we have a bunch of extremely dedicated information archeologists in our group that seem to be able to do the impossible when ferreting out N&W nuggets from the masses of recorded history.

Thanks,

Jim Cochran
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