When were milk and cream shipments discontinued?

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If N&W had reefers they must have been very early, before World War
II. They would have hauled express reefers from REA and other
railroads in their passenger trains. N&W did eventually get some
insulated boxcars and mechanical reefers, but I'm pretty sure that was
after the 1964 merger, and may have even been an extension of Wabash
service. I think NKP hauled a lot of meat reefers out of Chicago, but
I don't know if that service was still in place at the time of the
merger.
N&W had stock cars pulled by a G class 2-8-0 up into the 1950s, the
Honaker Branch I think. 
Milk and dairy didn't necessarily travel in reefers. That's why speed
was so important in transporting them. The milk cans may have been
placed in a chest filled with ice, but otherwise were often loaded on
baggage cars as another piece of express in a passenger train.
Marty Flick

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  Did the N&W have reefers and cattle cars?  
  Carl Barna  Emmaus, PA  
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SUBJECT: Re: When were milk and cream shipments discontinued?    I
believe most milk cans were transported in baggage and express cars.
From what I've read about the dairy industry, I don't think it was so
much that the railroads stopped accepting them but the dairy traffic
simply moved to trucks for cost and effeciancy reasons. 
 Marty Flick

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 I have a follow up question, how did the N&W ship those?
 Thanks,
 David Baker

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 > Is there a date that milk and cream shipments were no longer
accepted on the N&W, or did that traffic wither away on its own?
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