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Until the end of WWII just about eveything was Pullman green with black roofs. That even goes for the streamlined coaches. The C&NW's streamlined "Challenger" coaches did have gold striping and lettering like that on the E-4s. After the war, UP, SP and C&NW painted a number of cars (both streamlined and heavyweight) in two-tone gray. The Armour yellow paint scheme was reserved for the streamlined "Cities" trains until 1952, when UP began applying it to all of its passenger equipment, and SP and C&NW applied it to several cars assigned to joint service on trains operating over UP lines. Repainting didn't occur all at once, so in the early 50s the trains on the Chicago-Omaha route carried cars sporting a variety of paint schemes. Also, it wasn't uncommon for cars in the yellow and green "400" paint scheme to show up in trains on this line. In terms of HO models, the Rivarossi 60 foot cars are right on the money for C&NW (the prototypes for all 4 of these cars are C&NW). The Rivarossi heavyweight baggage and baggage-RPO cars (the 70-footers) are also reasonably close to C&NW cars. Model Die Casting makes 60 foot Harriman-style baggage and RPO cars which would be good for UP or SP cars. The Athearn streamlined coach would be okay for a Southern Pacific "Challenger" coach. And the Con-Cor 70-foot streamlined coach is a shortened version of a C&NW "400" coach. Heavyweight sleepers, diners and coaches from Walthers or Branchline also would be appropriate for these trains.
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