Reply To: MoPac Caboose color

[peggyrothschild]

Luke
Many of the 1948 cabooses were still in the freight car brown paint in the mid-1970’s. Tru-Color MKT Freight Car Brown (TCP-188) is a good match. As cabooses were repainted to a ‘caboose red’ it was a red shade that as Thomas stated faded to an orange-red over the years. Look at a google search image on Missouri Pacific cabooses and see the variations. What I never saw was a dark red.
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Here’s a link to the Missouri Pacific Historical Society gallery showing various cabooses and the color variations.

http://mopac.org/archives/online-images-and-documents/rolling-stock/cabooses