Re: (erielack) Milk Cars In Branchville Photo

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Rusty
 
Thanks for the plug.  Not one other person mentioned the milk car  books.   
Sad in deed.
 
Are you going to the ARHS convention?
 
Bob
 
PS.  Expect a positive announcement in the next 4-8 weeks!   I will 
personally call you!!!  :)
 
 
In a message dated 9/2/2008 11:44:42 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
recordor_@_comcast.net writes:

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






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