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From: "William Botkin" webotkin AT ecentral DOT com
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 10:11:48 -0600
Subject: Milk Containers on Flat Cars
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Hi,



I am modeling some milk container cars on flat cars owned by National Car
Company that the DL&W used to carry in their milk trains in the early
1950's. Funaro and Camerlengo (F&C) has produced these cars in HO as resin
kits. In the process of painting the kits, the question is what color are
the containers and what were they lettered.



In a review of the kits in RMC in the July 1989 issue written by Rusty
Recordon , he indicated that the in the 1950's era, the containers were very
weathered, without any lettering and appeared to be a Pullman green color
based on his viewing some color movies from the period. I have be unable to
locate any color photos of these cars and there are few black and white
images available. The Lackawanna served several dairies in the period
including Dairymen's League, Sheffield and Borden's. According to the F&C
instructions, the Dairymen's League, Sheffield and Borden's containers were
all white with black lettering, though even in the few black and white
images I have found, the Borden's containers don't appear white, but
something much darker in shade - perhaps very weathered?



If anyone has better information on this topic, I would appreciate it. I
have posted a photo from the F&C website of the Borden's containers as a
reference.



Thanks.



William E. Botkin

Centennial, CO





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