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Re:RE: (erielack) Milk
Thanks, Bill -- for something new (to me, at least) in milk handling.
How did they keep the milk cold - refrigerated trailers? Or top ice?
Where did the trailers go on the east end? Were they unloaded while on the flat cars, or off-loaded and driven? Either way, where?
This could be an interesting operating situation, VERY time-sensitive!
Randy Brown
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Randy:
The answer is yes. A dairy in Homer , NY continued to use rail even after the EL merger and the demise of psss. trains on the Syracuse Br. It was a piggyback operation with the trailers being loaded through side doors while on the flat car. They were handed by the local out of Binghamton to Homer. It made it a point to get back to Binghamton to make #22 out of Bing. The emties were handled on #7 and then the local back to Homer. This went of for several years. I worked as a brakeman on the Syracuse Br. the summer of '62 and had the honor of setting off this empty flat with two trailers at Homer on several ocasions.
Bill McDonald
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