When were milk and cream shipments discontinued?

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How interesting! Never saw a cattle car carrying bricks!  I assume boxcars would normally do this. Do you have any pics of these?

Cheers -

Carl Barna
Emmaus, PA
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All,

Early on, back in the 1920s, N&W had four reefers.  They were painted white with (I surmise, since no color photos exist) big black block letters (like the hoppers).

Of course, they had Class SK cattle cars, since N&W moved a lot of livestock, especially from southwest Virginia (Bristol Line & Clinch Valley).  They were also used for brick loading.

Tim Hensley

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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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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

> On Sep 26, 2024, at 1:37 AM, NW Mailing List via NW-Mailing-List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Good morning!
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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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> Best Autumn wishes,
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> Frank Scheer
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