3-color "double" line...graphic styles?

I'd like to create a "double" line that uses 3 colors. The third color would be the gutter space in between, either white, or clear. The lines on the outside would have different colors, and/or different dotted or solid patterns.
Example:
Red 1pt
White 1pt
Green 1pt
How would I create a Graphic Style of this type?

535678,
For a simple double line, you may use an Art Brush, for more complicated versions such as one full and one dashed, you may use a Pattern Brush.
You may:
1) Create a rectangle with a height corresponding to the first line thickness and an arbitrary length, or corresponding to one dash and one gap, and give it the first colour, no stroke;
2) Move a copy straight down (or up) by the distance in between plus the first line thickness, and change the height if needed (setting the upper left Reference Point in the Transform palette/panel), and change the colour.
Now you can define it as an Art Brush, or if you want the second line dotted:
3) For the line to be dashed, reduce its length to the dash.
Now you can define it as a Pattern Brush.

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