Wabash,and later,N&W,had UP painted cars for use on the City of St. Louis.
Armour yellow came from Armour meatpacking, and the Santa Fe used the same color on their equipment.
PRR, Wabash, MP, SP MILW, CNW all had cars painted in the UP scheme.(not all of them-duh)
According to the UPHS Streamliner, UP had Armour grey, Red Scotchlite(3M) for any red, and Armour yellow.
For the striping you see on the hood, I think it was Oxide Red(must check mag. for exact color)
For good details on the UP paints see;
http://www.utahrails.net/up/up-diesel-paint.php
This is part of Don Strack’s excellent web site and covers UP diesel painting over the years. Use the menu to move up and you will find a treasure trove of info on RRs in the Utah area with a TON of great stuff on UP. In the page noted above he looks at the colors used and when.
By the way - UP is a very standardized railroad. There was a reprint of UP Common Standard #22 several years ago that had information on the UP paints of the first half of the 20th century. In have a 1981-vintage set of up “Color Drift Control Cards” that were used to check batches of paint from vendors. These are the “official” shades of Armour Yellow, Striping Red, Harbormist Gray and Aluminum (UP never painted truck frames “silver” - they were Aluminum)
Gary Binder
Aha! That explains Truman Capote’s remark in the book IN COLD BLOOD about the “Yellow Santa Fe trains streaking down the track.” I had thought of ATSF varnish only as streamlined, but were there day-coaches in yellow? Or boxcars?
Capote was mixed up. He saw UP trains and assumed they were AT&SF.
Or was he looking at a string of refrigorator cars pulled by diesels?
I’m sure that Truman Capote was holding a valid artistic license when he wrote “In Cold Blood”.
Not sure, but in late 1959, when Capote went to Kansas to research the book that became IN COLD BLOOD, he took the Super Chief to and from Garden City Kansas, county seat of the murdered Clutter family.
Maybe he DID see some kind of refrig. car or, as has been suggested, pulled out his artistic license. (Streaking silver sounds just as impressive as streaking yellow to me, though, if not more so.) Was ATSF using blue lettering on yellow freight diesels at that point? - a.s.
Blue lettering on yellow and black diesels with more black than yellow if I remember correctly.
For anyone interested: All Jerusalem local transit, both the Arab owner-driver bus network and the Egged Cooperative, are painting the hand-hold stanchions, full height on the floor-to-ceiling versions, seat-back handholds where applicable, yellow, as a safety measure I guess. And the color looks to me like Armour yellow exactly! And today I rode the 75 line from the stop nearest the Yeshiva, not far from the upper terminal near the Augusta Victoria historic Lutheran hospital and church, to the Hebron Old City Gate (name of the Gate, sometimes also called the Damascus Gate), the lower terminal, and the owner-driver not only had painted all the stantions and handholds this yellow, but had replaced the window curtains with what looks like Armour Yellow curtains!
Uncle Pete’s influence shure shows up in strange places?
Keep in mind that yellow was used before there were trains around, the CNW yellow (which is very close to UP’s yellow) is “English Stagecoach Yellow” and was around for many years. Most likely UP similarly picked up the color from stagecoaches or similar operations. (Many of the first U.K. railroad cars were built by stagecoach builders.)
BTW for many years, U.K. diesel and electric engines have been required to have their noses painted a similar dark yellow color for safety reasons.
That makes sense. Jerusalem was ruled by the British 1917 - 1948. (After the Turks for several centuries.)
one of my favorite class 1 railroads the union pacific or up for short uses the armour yellow as thier paint scheme.