Any Milk Trains on the N&W?
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Fri Feb 13 19:44:10 EST 2009
I don't know of any milk trains on the N&W, or even dedicated milk cars, but
the N&W did handle big cans of milk in express cars on passenger trains,
according to my recollection. I worked two summers my junior and senior
years in high school in a "frozen custard" stand (really low butterfat soft
serve vanilla ice cream) near Princeton and I was told that the milk came by
passenger trains from a Pet dairy in Abingdon, VA, to Bluefield, WV, where
the stand owner would go to pick up the cans of milk to bring to the stand.
I can still taste the strawberry shortcakes that I got to sample those two
summers when the berries were in season. The owner would buy large
quantities of fresh strawberries locally to go on shortcakes that he
purchased, and we would run the frozen vanilla custard over the strawberries
in the shortcakes and serve (or eat) them. Somehow I didn't get that treat
when I went to work as a laborer on the N&W the following summers.
Gordon Hamilton
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Subject: Any Milk Trains on the N&W?
> 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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