Interior Colors for Heavyweight Passenger Cars?

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I just got two Branchline Heavyweight Passenger Cars and I am going to go all out on the painting of them. However, I am not real sure at what interior color should be used? Were the colors road specific?

Any help in this area, would be greatly appreciated.

(Oh…BTW…I am modeling C&NW)

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The colors were road specific. They could also vary depending on the time period modeled on a specific road. I’m sorry but I don’t know about the C&NW, perhaps their historical society could provide the info you’re looking for.
Sorry I couldn’t help more,
Tom Watkins

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Yup…was thinkin the same thing. I’ll email the guys at the HS and see what they can come up with.

Thanks anyway Tom.

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Actually most the cars were painted in one curtain scheme. Now this true for the Milwaukee, NP, GN, and a few other railroads. The seats were a green and pretty much everything else was cream color such as the walls and the ceiling. alot of the metal in the cars were crome plated like around the windows or the metal in the bathrooms. The floors were mostly made up of tiles but it varied in tiles with the different railroads. You may have to do some research, but the C&NW was one such railroad with these interiors. James