Any Milk Trains on the N&W?

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Note that the dedicated milk cars and milk trains ran milk from 'up east'
down into the New York City area where the population number could/would
support the purchase of the volume of milk that the train could carry and
large dairy plants existed to produce bottled milk and the other products.
The dairy farms were up in the New England States where general farming had
become uneconomical relative to other areas of the US.

On the N&W system, the largest city was Cincinnati for many decades, about
300,000-500,000 people.  All other cities were a lot smaller.  Milk came
into Cincinnati from outlying farms via the good, old milk can in express
cars or baggage cars via one of the seven railroads in town or some of the
interurbans when they operated.  I have two cans marked for the N&W- one
from a Sardinia Ohio farm an one from just south of Kenova WV.  

In the small towns one could always find a Carnation Dairy plant that
processed the local milk into ice cream, cream, condensed milk and dried or
powdered milk that could be easily shipped to larger plants and larger
population centers.

Small towns always had a branch packing plant or two attached to the cold
storage/ice making plant in town (no one had a deep freeze- they didn't
exist yet!)that processed halves or sides of beef (or quarters) so the local
train would have a meat reefer or two to deliver to that plant.  

Gary Rolih
Cincinnati

 
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> Subject: Re: Any Milk Trains on the N&W?

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> Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 12:44 PM

> I am not aware of any, but my observation is post 1946 and

> mostly on the main line. However, I have never seen

> reference to milk cars on the N&W in any publication,

> including the N&W Magazine. Never say never, but so far

> I have never seen any evidence.    Jim Nichols


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Jim and Rick, 

This is as I suspected, but ya never know sometimes until you ask. ;)

Thanks!!!

Mark Peele
Catonsville, MD


      
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