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At Don Stracks Website is a page about Union Pacific Diesel Locomotive Painting, Lettering & Numbering Possible, it´s in the first line about the locomotives, the side is helpful for you too http://utahrails.net/up/paint/up-diesel-paint.php This is a part from this side: 1953-1957 -- Aluminum Color On Trucks The color used on locomotive trucks was changed from Harbor Mist Gray to Aluminum. The aluminum color for trucks was first used on propane-fueled Turbine 57 in early June 1953. Harold Ranks took a photograph of Turbine 63 in 1954 with newly painted aluminum trucks. A photo of Turbine 55 in June 1955 shows it with aluminum trucks, and the revision of the painting diagram for Turbines 61-75 (new in March to October 1954) was changed in September 1955 to include aluminum trucks. Turbine 61 is shown in a November 1955 photo with aluminum trucks. The first new passenger units with aluminum trucks were the four E9 cab units and 10 E9 booster units delivered in May and June 1954, numbered as UP 943-947 and UP 950B-959B. The first new freight units with aluminum trucks were the 100 GP9s and GP9Bs in the 300-class from EMD, delivered between July and October 1957 (the painting diagram for these units is dated March 29, 1957, and shows aluminum-colored trucks).
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