Any Milk Trains on the N&W?

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At one point, the Pet plant in Abingdon was loading a 70-foot express car in downtown Abingdon which was picked up by the Abingdon Branch train and taken to Bristol to go east on #42. I have several photos of the "V-C" coming into Bristol with this car head out in the train.
Maybe someone can shed more light on this movement . . .

Ed King
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Presumably, if there weren't any large-scale milk producers on the system, there wouldn't be any reason for a milk train originating on the N&W.

Peter Prydderch, Stockport, UK

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I purchased a milk can that has the N&W stamp on the bottom. Don Mills
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> I have a milk can which has a tag that reads "Return to: O.(?)M.

Shannon, Saltville, VA. N&W". I have seen one or two others from other
locations on the N&W.

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> Jeff Sanders

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>> Mark,

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>> I have never known of dedicated milk cars or milk trains in N&W

service. N&W did handle dairy products in express service on regular trains,
including those on the Shenandoah Division. I have a photo of mixed train #14
in Hagerstown on the last day of steam operations, and there is a baggage wagon
in the picture loaded with milk cans. There has also been a 1957 photo
published in one of the magazines of a wagon load of milk cans at Roanoke
station.

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>> Rick Morrison

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>>> Here's a question I've been pondering since the release of

several Milk Car models recently: did any Milk Cars run on N&W? If so, where
(Shenandoah line?) and when?

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>>> Thanks!

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>>> Mark Peele

>>> Catonsville, MD

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