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Re:Re:RE: (erielack) More EL in Massachusetts!

Beware confusing Plaudler cars with B&M cars.  The car in question looks to me like a Pfaudler design:  rounded eaves, corners and side sills are unique.  B&M steel milk cars more closely resembled the later REA express reefers: square eaves, less round corners, and notched side sills.

And -- Pfaudler cars were owned by General American Transportation and leased to milk operators.  B&M would have had to lease the cars at a time when B&M was spending not one unecessary cent.

Finally -- milk traffic in New England lasted through the 1960s: the tarriff cancelling milk rates came out in 1970.
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Insulated tanks were used for chemical and other products after the milk business dried up.  Borden transferred several of their "butter dish" cars to Borden Chemical reporting marks.

IIRC, even some of the National Fitch slide-off tanks ended up carrying orange juice.

Randy Brown
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No need to assume that just because it's a milk car, it's got milk in it, or is going back west to be filled with milk.  Those cars were used for years for B&M company business.  I think there are a few STILL in use limited to Springfield Terminal rails.

SGL



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