The article about this car is a disgrace and something that an institution like the Smithsonian should be ashamed of. As Ike said it is pure BS. The history of Jim Crow Laws and the treatment of

Ed and everyone….. Please run the link to Smithsonian.com at the beginning of this post and read what they say about the car….. Total BS not worthy of them! Ike

I think Floquil had a color they called “Coach Green “ which is close to the color The Smithsonian used. They should know to check things like this. Ed Mims

I fully agree with Fenton Wells also. Now, comes the question: who will set the experts at The Smithsonian straight? Also, there is a copy cat in “The Georgia State Railroad Museum” in Savannah

I agree with Fenton's comments 100%! Every year, I get at least one letter, usually from someone that says they are working on a novel, asking about how the Southern dealt with race relations. It is

For what it is worth I also find it interesting when looking at the SR Hayne Shop Partition Coach Interior Finish specs for color, materials and fabric interior finishes, the railroad does not

Ike, I started a page on FB dedicated to that very proposition. It’s called “Fire Up 1401”. Doug Alexander Sent from my portable UNIVAC Computational Machine.

According to the car specs it was Pullman Green No.4. Sides and roof. Also if you look at the Passenger Car Diagram Book, by Bill Schafer although the restrooms in the 1200 are not labeled colored

Jason is correct..we have the coach green drift card somewhere in the archives. Of course, everything is in a different place because of the move. Frank Greene contacted DuPont and got paint samples

You have the drift card in the archives for “Coach Greene” as the Southern called it. I believe in the passenger car files there is a reference to coach green and Pullman green being nearly the

We can dig through the specs on the rebuilds, or better yet ask George Walker at TVRM, but I prefer to say (maybe incorrectly) the passenger car color is "Southern" green rather than "Pullman". Very

Did the Southern paint it’s coaches a bright green? All that I saw were painted PULLMAN GREEN. None were the color of the car seen in the attached link which is close to being “Kelly” green. If

It is my feeling that the Smithsonian is hung up on the Jim Crow South. The entire exhibit around 1401 is focused on those terrible times and their effect on American Blacks. The rest of the story

We know that the Southern delivered 1401 shopped and painted. There is NO way the railroad would have done it any other way. Now…could we get someone super rich to become railfans and help get the

Bill, Good to hear from you. What a backwards way to do things. It’s not that difficult to use the correct color temp lighting. You’d think they’d never lighted a display before. Wonder how many

I’ve attached a low res version of Southern drawing SP-6098 showing the floor plan of partitioned coaches 1200-1206. The variations in the lav. sizes are shown as are the luggage racks on both ends

Don: I know the answer to the car color. The SRHA knows it’s wrong; the Smithsonian chose not to utilize the correct colors, saying that the authentic colors wouldn’t look “right” in the

Ike, Where did this car color come from? Don

Charlie: I helped do the research on that car in the SRHA archives before it went to the Smithsonian. Other than the fact that the toilets at the ends of the car were slightly different sizes, we

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