Re: C&S Loco, cars paint colors, '20's

Stan,
In the 20's, the C&S used a graphite & oil mix on smokeboxes, fireboxes, and rotary blades and housings.
Black was used for everything else.
Lettering is thought to have been aluminum leaf, we found no evidence of white paint (other than RGS lettering) on #74's tender when we painted it back to C&S in the 80's.
For red, the C&S used the same variety of red oxide that everyone else used. Passenger cars appear to have been a bit lighter in color than Pullman Green, but you'd be safe with whatever you like best.
Cabooses, by the way, were not painted bright red that was common on the C&S in the 50's and 60's. They were painted the same red as boxcars and other rolling stock, including stock cars. In the 60's, C&S volunteers painted equipment on display using the same paint and standards that were used by the C&S at that time. This included red cab roofs, and #60's snowplow, which was always black in service.
As a result of the work these volunteers did 40 years ago, a lot of wrong ideas got into people's heads about what colors were used in the 20's and 30's.