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I don't have as much experience as many of you, but my observations (a lot from photos) is that the "red" cab roofs started out on the orange side of red, close to the old Floquil zinc chromate primer. From there they darkened to a cherry red, then to a purple, and finally to black. In the Oregon Illinois folder in the Photo albums, there's a picture I took from the highway overpass in Oregon (June, 1962), showing some of this process on 5632's cab roof. Based on what Bill just said, I'm not sure whether this started out as Chinese Red or the standard color. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CBQ/photos/albums/104067700/lightbox/360328723?orderBy=ordinal&sortOrder=asc&photoFilter=ALL#zax/360328723
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