One would not find a white wooden Lackawanna Reefer, like the model pictured in the EL List, at the Branchville Creamery in the photo of the Trainmaster in the snow. Branchville shipped milk to Borden's, Newark NJ in milk tank cars. Likely candidates for the cars in the photo would be Borden's leased, General American Pfaulder steel cars, usually a Pullman Green in color. Even in the diesel age you might still see Borden's MDT wooden milk tank cars which were painted at various times Pullman green, a somber red, or a cream or light tan. These colors overlapped and were mix 'n match in trains The steel Pfaulders have been produced by Intermountain and the MDTs by Athearn though not yet in the simple; "Borden's"-door-"Milk Tank Car" lettering scheme applied to the green, red , and cream colored cars. Butter dish Borden's cars were also used on this run but primarily in the steam era. For a thorough pictorial coverage of NJ DL&W milk traffic get a copy of Bob Bahrs's "Railway Milk Cars, Volume 4 (DL&W Milk Cars Part 2)", published by Bob's Photos. Volume 3 covers NY State DL&W Milk traffic and is complimentary to Vol 4. Bob did a great job on these books and both are available from the ELHS and are indispensable for DL&W milk modeling. Rusty Recordon The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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