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From: "Ron" rdukarm AT roadrunner DOT com
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 10:07:28 -0400
Subject: Re: Re:(erielack) Dairy Merchandise Car
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Randy,

I knew they were originally milk cars, but beyond that I knew not much about
their after-life and the modifications made. Thanks. Attached is the rest of
the photo so you can see that steamer.

Ron Dukarm


Subject: Re:(erielack) Dairy Merchandise Car


> Ron -- Not trying to be flip or fresh, the car was equipped to handle
> dairy merchandise. The Erie had a series of insulated boxcars intended for
> the milk-in-big-cans trade. They had the distinctive six-rib Buckeye ends
> and rode on the very distinctive 6-foot wheelbase bottom-equalized trucks;
> they also had swinging reefer doors but no ice bunkers.
>
> When the milk trade dried up, the cars were re-classified and re-assigned
> as express boxcars, while retaining their insulation but losing the
> swinging doors in preference for sliding doors. Some of the sliding doors
> were inside-hung; some slid outside. Some were reclaimed steel doors;
> some were wood, built new by the railroad. Some cars had a 12-foot
> compartment built into one end; it used one set of the swinging doors
> inside the car. The compartment was meant to carry pre-cooled dairy
> products. This is one.
>
> I have always thought the milk cars and ex-milk cars stayed pretty much on
> the New York Division, with some excursions onto the Susquehanna Division.
> I know that at least one got to San Bernardino on the Santa Fe, but I
> don't know how much of an aberration this car is by being at Dayton.
>
> The locomotive, by the way, is most likely a C-1 or C-3 0-8-0: no number
> plate on the smokebox door.
>
> Randy Brown


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