(erielack) FW: Newark Milk and Cream

["Schuyler Larrabee" <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net>]

A good friend (in spite of his SPF tendencies) asks me:

> Subject: Newark Milk and Cream
> 
> Schuyler,
>  
> Someone on the "Milk" list unearthed photos of milk cars 
> lettered for the Newark Milk and Cream Company.   A 1941 
> registry showed the company at 26 Bridge Street in Newark NJ. 
>   I Googled this address and found that it is one block south 
> of the DL&W line through Newark and the Oranges,  but the 
> only photos of the cars in service show them in Erie trains.  
>  The question arose as to whether these cars were 
> interchanged to the Lackawanna for delivery to a siding in 
> Newark, or whether the milk was off loaded and trucked to the 
> dairy.   Do you have any data which could show this?
>  
> Of course my original interest was to see if the PRR was 
> involved. The street address shows quite clearly that they 
> would not have been.  So I keep searching for a legitimate 
> use for all my milk cars.
>  
> regards,
>  
> Andy Miller

What can the list tell Andy (and me)?


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