Re: Caboose Grab Iron Colors

Alamosa, Colorado
January 23, 1926
Messrs: A.M. Fry.
A.S. Linderholm
P.C. Moshisky
C.H. Quandt
Wm. Lewis
George Smith
T.P. Archer
Following is a list of paints and what they are used for furnished by my painter foreman and I want you to specify from this list the paints that you order in future:
Stay-brite for front ends.
Long’s Black Paint for headlights, hand rails, domes and exterior of cabs and tenders.
Russian Jacket Enamel for jackets.
Cab green for interior of cabs.
Aluminum leaf for lettering cabs and tenders
Underpining Black Paint for Pilots and all running gear of engines, underneath running board and tender frames and trucks.
White lead for all stenciling
Loco finishing varnish for varnishing exterior of cabs and tenders.
Standard freight car paint for all freight cars and cabooses.
US Pastel Buff for interior of cabooses.