James Dudzik is looking for the name of the green used on locomotive cab and caboose interiors. Well, it actually goes by a few different names, as Cody Grivno explains in this episode of AskTrains.com.
Does cab interior green have a name?
By Jenny Freeland | December 27, 2021
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In World War II, most US aircraft interiors (and many other military equipment) were green (or a yellowish-green) because they used a zinc-chromate based primer as an anti-corrosion coating. In trains of that era and beyond, some may have had the same coating. As time went on, different corrosion-resistant paints were developed using different color pigments.