Re:Re: Milk Traffic; was: (erielack) More EL in Massachusett

["Janet & Randy Brown" <jananran_@_mymailstation.com>]

Bradley -- It depends on who, where and when.  Milk was usually loaded cold into insulated cars and moved fast to arrive cold.  Early on, it travelled in cans which sometimes had ice around them.  Later, it moved in insulated, glass-lined bulk tanks inside insulated carbodies. Or it went in slide-off truck-sized insulted tanks on flat cars.

Most of the house cars were simply insulated, with no ice bunkers like a refreigerator car.  The Erie's well-known "milk" cars were simply steel boxcars with insulation and modified doors. However, the B&M had some earlier wooden cars and, later, some steel cars with mechanical refrigeration units. Either way, the cars were useful for sensitive or perishable traffic after the milk dried up or went away.  Erie turned theirs into express cars; B&M used theirs modtly for company service.

For more than you ever thought you wanted to know, go to the "milktrains" group on Yahoo.

Randy Brown
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Ah, so the milk was not refridgerated so it could be hauled long distances then.

Bradley Butcher

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