Back to the original post for a second...the Milwaukee Road traditionally used orange and maroon on passenger cars, going back to the 1880's-90's, and used an orange / maroon / gray paintscheme when they introduced the Hiawatha in 1934. In 1955, the Milwaukee signed a deal with Union Pacific to run UP passenger trains between Omaha and Chicago. UP didn't reach Chicago, and had previously used C&NW to get their trains to Chicago. One stipulation in the UP/Milw agreement was Milwaukee had to provide a certain number of passenger cars for the trains, and they had to be the same yellow and gray colors used on UP trains. After a few years, Milwaukee decided to just adopt the UP scheme for all their passenger cars and diesels. Freight diesels continued to use orange (orange and black) however.
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