The vestibule entry door of a preserved 1920's era Louisville & Nashville Railroad dining car. The Illinois Railway Museum. Union Illinois USA. 2009.

I took this photo during a July 2009 visit to The Illinois Railway Museum,loacted in the town of Union Illinois.

On display in one of the museum's barns, is this walk thru preserved 1920's era heavyweight dining car from the former Louisville & Nashville Railroad. This view was photographed inside the cars vestibule at one of the end entry doors.

During the early 1900's in to the 1930's and 40's, this dark shade of green was a standardized color adopted by many railroads during the steam era. The upcoming era of modern lightweight streamlined passenger trains, would eventually find brighter colors and decorative color schemes replacing the standard Pulman and various other shades of Olive or deab dark green colors on passenger trains. Many of the older standard steam era heavyweight cars would eventually wear the newer color schemes as they were shifted to working on secondary passenger trains in later years.