HMMMM, that late Jersey Central color is now way too light to be Swift Red so we'll be looking at this one again here real soon also... LOL

The Dodge Truck Special Paint Colors collection does include Omaha Orange as Chrysler DT5077...

https://paintref.com/cgi-bin/paintdetai ... ode=DT5077

The Lehigh Valley may be the only railroad entity which used both WE5884 and WE5880. WE5880 does generally appear to be slightly more orange compared to WE5884 so it may be a little more heavily tinted in that direction as well.

Chrysler DT3031 is a later Socony-Mobil bright red which is a very good match to DuPont 58209 Chevy Truck Cardinal Red in the 1967 brochure but that color's supposed to be DT3144... LOL

https://paintref.com/cgi-bin/paintdetai ... ode=DT3031

Then, I tried to adjust the truck picture to match the raw paint samples picture since we know exactly which colors, DT5077 and WE5884, they're supposed to be...

Cardinal Red is a Soo Line color and chances are pretty good the Canadian Pacific uses it as well...

https://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcoded ... ny&rows=50

One more good look at what should be WE5884 Socony Red on the New Haven...

Yeah, that could be Cardinal Red on the Jersey Central or perhaps even Scarlet since they're almost identical to each other but we'll save that one for later...

Meanwhile, the previous Soo Line red color would appear to be Swift Red or something almost identical to it... LOL

Now, I wasn't lying to Sammy when I mentioned that Swift Red is like a typical fire engine red. Swift Red is at the bottom on the left side of the center fold next to the punch hole. The very similar American LaFrance Red is there also along with a lot of others of varying shades. Texas Red, a.k.a Texaco Fire Chief Red, DuPont 674, was the most popular red color for emergency vehicles at the time of printing according to the brochure. None of the light and bright reds like Scarlet and Cardinal Red are present, however...

Hey, at least the yellow isn't too hard to identify... LOL

The leading contender for the purple-maroon color so far is that classic Ford Mandarin/Monsoon Maroon...

Ford Monsoon Maroon, DuPont 93-32250-M, is the darkest maroon featured in the 1954 catalog as Plate No. 57. Plate No. 56, the next lightest, is Dodge Truck Rio Maroon, DuPont 93-81371-M...

https://www.paintref.com/cgi-bin/paintd ... =93-32250M

https://www.paintref.com/cgi-bin/paintd ... =93-81371M

Chrysler DT3008 also matches Rio Maroon so this color may date back further than 1949...

https://www.paintref.com/cgi-bin/paintd ... ode=DT3008

Anyway, Dodge Truck Rio Maroon seems to be working the best with attempted dual chip matches like this one with GMC Venetian Yellow slightly compensated for fading...

Here are a pair of alternative examples of Rio Maroon on a couple of 1952 Dodges, one old and one new...

Since they ran the Derby yesterday it's now Rio Maroon by a nose... LOL

I should've maintained a safe distance from the maroon but too late now...

DT3008 is slightly lighter and browner than Dodge Truck Rio Maroon so that one's out. It's the only maroon in the Dodge fan deck, however, but the darkest out of all the later-sixties samples I have on hand. After the war, fleet maroons did trend more toward the lighter side.

Anyway, here's another one, 1942 Ford/Mercury Moselle Maroon...

https://paintref.com/cgi-bin/paintdetai ... =91-23136M