Railway Milk Cars

Volume 1
by Robert A. Liljestrand and John Nehrich
letter size, 48 pages, soft cover
3 History
5 Equipment
7 Relative Size of Milk Car Fleets
18 Known GPEX Lessees
36 Shipping Milk to Gotham
39 D&H Milk Stations, 1951
40 Operations on the D&H
42 Traffic from Other Selected Creameries
48 Index

rear cover photo: GPEX#1014 was at Newport Jct., ME on the Maine Central on May 13, 1967. Leased from GPEX, 50-foot long #1014 operated between the creamery at Newport and Boston in Hood milk service over the MEC and B&M.(J.E. Lancaster)

front cover photo: GPEX #1055 waited on a siding with a B&M box car in the mid-1960s. Number 1055 was leased to Hood, one of the 40-foot long all-steel cars built after WWII for milk service. (Russ Munroe)

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Volume 2
by Robert A. Liljestrand and John Nehrich
letter size, 48 pages, soft cover
3 ON THE RUTLAND
6 CEAMERIES ON THE RUTLAND
10 RUTLAND SUB-DIVISIONS
11 B&M Milk Cars
19 NX Cars
23 WDX Cars
24 Creameries on the Rutland
25 BWIX Cars
28 SAMPLE CONSIST on Rutland
35 Borden's Milk Car
37 Whiting's Milk Car
39 CLOSE-UP of the Bennington CO-OP
40 PFE Express Refrigerator Cars
41 B&O Milk Cars
46 MDT Milk Cars
48 Index

rear cover photo: B&M milk car #1905 waited in Somerville yard in July 1963. General American built this milk car for the B&M in 1958 with two doors per side.(Matthew J. Herson, Jr. photo)

front cover photo: B&M milk car #1714 was in Bellows Falls, VT in August 1951 for the Bellows Falls CO-OP Creamary. This car was wquipped with a Themo-King mecahanical refrigeration unit.(Homer G. Benton photo)

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Volume 3: DL&W Milk Cars Part 1
by Robert R. Bahrs
letter size, 48 pages, soft cover
4 Introduction
4 Bibliography
6 Milk Car Roster (drawing of the DL&W wooden no. 1611)
14 Milk Car Roster by Year
16 Map
17 S&U Milk Movements
24 Binghamton-Hoboken Schedules
25 Main Line Milk Train Schedules
26 Form 33 Reports
28 Milk Car Movements
30 1956 Consist
33 1956 Consist
36 Milk Car Roster in 1951
36 Creameries Located on DL&W
39 Photo Gallery
48 Index

rear cover photo: In 1959, the New York Division of the Railroad Enthusiasts chartered a regular train up to Branchville, NJ. It did the local work at both the Becker's creamery at Straders and the Borden's cramery at Branchville. During both stops, riders were allowed to disembark and watch the switching of the two plants. Both of Lackawanna's converted steel box cars were at the Becker's creamery that day. John A. Middleton captured both wooden car 1670 and steel car 1799 in this photo. Although the outside steel box car door is still full size, when opened it revealed a much lower inside door opening.(John A. Middleton photo)

When most people think of the Syracuse and Utica Branches during the diesel years, the first things that come to mind are the Lackawanna GP7s. They spent most of their life there, well into the Erie-Lackawanna years, but both branches were dieselized in April of 1951 with the first two batches of RS-3 units delivered. Here we see Train HB22 (Homer-Binghamton) pulled by RS-3 #903 southbound at Marathon, NY, with two Lackawanna milk cars head out. The siding is occupied with M of W equipment in the form of a converted milk car. It is one of the early cars built with a slightly rounded end roof.(Jim Frye photo, David Fairbanks collection)

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Volume 4: DL&W Milk Cars Part 2
by Robert R. Bahrs
letter size, 48 pages, soft cover
3 Acknowledgements
4 Introduction
5 NJ Creameries that disappeared early
10 Branchville, Straders, Orange and Newark
15 Timetable and Operations
18 Map
19 Hoboken and Montchair
25 The Paper Train
32 Photo Gallery
42 Milk cars converted to M of W service
47 DL&W Operating revenues from Milk

rear cover photo: It's Saturday, June 6, 1952, and probably train 1113 is stopped at Dover. An empty butter dish and wood sided milk tank car, both portraying a wine red color, are bound for Branchville, behind Pacific #1139.(photo by Henry W. Peterson)

front cover photo: Erie Lackawanna Train 1059 is westbound at Boonton station on Sunday, October 1, 1961. A pair of ex-Lackawanna passenger F3 is leading steel milk tank cars 997 and 1006. They are the highest and lowest numbered pfaudler cards being leased by Borden's for use on the Lackawanna. With a two-hour layover at Branchville, it was a great train to take a ride in the country on and go out to eat.(photo by William T. Greenburg)

It seems that the vol.1-3 were published in 2002, and the vol.4 in 2005.