SP Daylight color change

[JRP]

Hi.  Does anyone know approximatley when SP changed their "Daylight" red and yellow/orange color scheme on passenger trains to the standard Pullman built cars with all silver and a red letterboard?  Thanks for checking.

JRP

[gmpullman]

Here's a little background for you:

http://espee.railfan.net/passenger-paint.html

Of course while the Daylight colors were popular the SP was also running the Lark in a gray scheme similar to Pullman pool colors. 

The silver and red was probably an attempt to get the cars to mix better with the Budd and Stainless-sheathed P-S cars:

SP_Houston-69 by Edmund, on Flickr

There were still some Daylight-painted cars still around in 1969:

SP tripple-unit dining car-dorm kitchen-coffee shop cars 10262, 63, 64 in storage at Houston, TX on June 5, 1969 by Marty Bernard, on Flickr

Good Luck, Ed