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

I don't think it was B&M's to sell or scrap, unless they bought it from General American (unlikely).

And milk rates weren't cancelled until 1970, so milk wasn't "long gone" at the (indeterminant) time of the photo.

The B&M did keep and use the milk cars they did own, including the six ex-Erie cars (AT LAST! List Content!) for some time after the cessation of milk traffic.

Randy Brown
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The B&M was too cheap to send it to a scrapper.  They would have cut it up themselves, and sold it ready for the remelt.  And like I said, they used them for on-line service for a long time after 1970.

SGL

> Or a move to the scrapper? Milk traffic was long gone from New England rails
> by 1970.
> 
> Paul B
> 
> > No clue why it would be here - was there any milk traffic in New England
> > by 1970?
> >
> > - Paul
> 
> 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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