(railroading, informal, American) A period in the early 1970s when Amtrak operated a fleet of used equipment that still carried the paint schemes of their previous owners.
Amtrak's Rainbow Era was the first few years where consists were multi-colored because many legacy carriers' former rolling stock was mixed together and not yet painted for Amtrak.
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