Let’s see your Lionel Glass Lined Milk Cars

A 6-53222 2004 TCA 50th Anniversary Harmony reefer with Lou Redman figure.

Bob

Ed. Thanks for posting and I enjoyed that story. That’s a very nice Milk Car and building 

Bob. I like that Harmony car it’s on my list as well thanks for sharing it with us 

Robert S. Butler posted:

  Here's my offering

  A side note on NYC2UP's  Lionel Freeport Milk Cars:  Several years ago I purchased a "kitbashed" tinplate American Flyer pre-war reefer which some unknown modeler had converted into a Freeport Milk Car.  The basic car was the American Flyer NYC Merchant Despatch. 

  The owner painted the car yellow with tuscan red ends and then carefully scribed lines into the yellow paint to guide the extensive hand lettering of the car.  I haven't been able to find a photograph of the actual car but, other than the color, the graphics of the Lionel car matches this car in every detail. Given the probable time frame of the kitbash I suspect it, and not the Lionel car, is the actual color of the prototype.

Thanks a nice tin car. I have the white brothers car it’s one of my favorites thanks for sharing them with us.

rattler21 posted:

Stand pipes are for unloading raw milk.

Hoods milk truck is between the unloading track and chilling building. Trees are made using Sedam plants.

One way to fill a corner.  John in Lansing, ILL

About a year or so ago, I had asked exactly how milk got loaded and unloaded. Someone replied referring me to a diagram on another post, this is what it looks like. Thanks rattler21 for posting your great modeling. P.S. I just happen to have a glass of milk, just after finishing a slice of cherry pie.

Dave that sounds good. I just had a glass of Butter Milk and corn bread. Glad John could help. Thanks John for posting your milk operation 

As a dairy farmer, "Thank you for your support".

Hey John, my grandfather was a farmer, he had animals up until he sold his place to the township to make into a park. He did have dairy cows up until he hurt his back(I think late 50's or early 60's). My grandmother couldn't keep up with things so she sold those cows to someone local. Well, my grandfather when he got out was not to awfully happy about it, but I guess he sort of came to his senses about it. He used to tell me stories about milking the cows and squirting the barn cats. I think my farm experience working at his place would have been something else if those dairy cows were still there.

Keep getting those cows milked, when I get moving around to a fulltime layout, I do plan on having some farms, fences, dairy pickup(or drop off, and some coal about the place. Take some time to get there from where I'm currently sitting, but it will come.

Thanks, Dave. Been doing it since I graduated from Cornell in '69. Looking forward to seeing your progress.

My milk car came in the mail today this is probably my favorite. I like that jersey on the side she reminds me of one of my best jersey cows I had her name was “Half Pint” one of the most gentle cows I’ve ever seen and gave good milk except sometimes like this time of the year she would get into some wild onions then the milk was bad 

Lionel milk cars are one of my favorites. Here are mine running at the club last night.

NYC Milk Run

John

tr18 posted:

Lionel milk cars are one of my favorites. Here are mine running at the club last night.

NYC Milk Run

 

John

 

Thanks John for posting. I enjoyed the video 

Great video John.

One last milk run

Since my layout has been in boxes for several (10+) years. I managed these two pieces out for a photo op on my test track. A Texas special milk car, and a custom logoed Divco, done for me by Bob Geller.

These cars are one of my favorites Lionel has ever produced. I believe I have every road name to date (missing some road numbers). It’ll be interesting to see how the new versions compare, if they’re ever made....

@rattler21 posted:

With LCCA Convention over stamp by Weaver.  John in Lansing ILL 

Beautiful car, is there a production number for this car? Would like to try to obtain one. Thank you in advance. 

My Grandfather was a commercial artist back in the days of milk bottles and home delivery, He designed the milk bottle caps of various milk companies including Hood's Milk. Here is one of his designs, it matches the Lionel Hood's Milk Car, and I modeled my Hood's Milk factory from it. I added my own Hood's decal to the home delivery truck.

@Paulee posted:

Beautiful car, is there a production number for this car? Would like to try to obtain one. Thank you in advance. 

Lionel 17377

http://www.lionel.com/products...ilk-car-302-6-17377/

Stu

Here are two of mine spotted at the creamery loading dock so the tanks can be filled with pasteurized, homogenized milk.  The filling hoses are solder, painted white.  The filled tank cars will be shipped to the bottling plant.

The other side of the creamery receives raw milk in cans from local farms.  The morning milk train delivered these reefers.  The creamery replaces the loaded cans in the cars with empty cans.  When the milk train runs, the farmers ship loaded cans and get the empty cans to fill for tomorrow.

I love these cars! I was so excited to see there was a thread for them. These two videos were from 2016 and I had 32 milks cars then. Through birthday, Christmas and other presents I probably have close to or over 50 now. I love anything with milk! 

Some older video of mine.

Have fun.

Ron

@NOT LionelLLC posted:

Lionel 17377

http://www.lionel.com/products...ilk-car-302-6-17377/

Stu

Thankyou, it seems I have this car without Weaver's appealing over stamp. A subtle and nice detail.

Love seeing all the different milk cars and some of the stories that go along with them .  Here is my contribution to this thread and I apologize for not keeping with O gauge.  This is a standard gauge 500 series flat car I  converted into a “Butterdish “ milk car .  It was made from a scrap piece of PVC pipe and other styrene and simple graphics  along with the name of the dairy farm my cousin owns in Scotland.   Cheers.

@rattler21 posted:

Lionel 6-27331 Bowman milk car.  I was going to have it on my sales table at The March Meet.  John

Thanks for posting John. How much are you asking for it?

@Ron045 posted:

Some older video of mine.

Have fun.

Ron

Nice set up and video’s Ron. Sorry for the late reply

Hello, this is my first posting as a new member, so I apologize if I missed the answer to my question.

I just received a Lionel Pennsylvania 1954 refrigerator express car from METCA with glass tanks. How do I remove the car roof to view the tanks?

Thanks for any advice. Steve.

Thought I’d share an update here on my Lionel milk car collection. Still missing a few road numbers and have a few sidelined from zinc pest on the couplers.

Lets see who can spot which ones have been custom painted

So I'm curious about this milk car thread. Back in March, I asked a question about how to remove the roof from these milk cars to view the tanks inside. None of you members who have posted on this thread replyed to my question. Now there's a post from PRR Steam about his collection, so I feel completely ignored.  Was my question so basic that you all aren't interested in giving me some help here, or did I breach some etiquette boundary that I was not aware of?Please explain.

@Steven Gard posted:

So I'm curious about this milk car thread. Back in March, I asked a question about how to remove the roof from these milk cars to view the tanks inside. None of you members who have posted on this thread replyed to my question. Now there's a post from PRR Steam about his collection, so I feel completely ignored.  Was my question so basic that you all aren't interested in giving me some help here, or did I breach some etiquette boundary that I was not aware of?Please explain.

Steven, I’m happy to answer your question. The roof pops off. It has little clips on the inside. I find it easiest to pop one side off then you’ll feel it come free.

@PRRronbh posted:

Only have six.

Ron

one thing about these Lionel cars I post back in 2019 the REA and the "American Express" never existed as milk cars with glass line tanks.  They were in fact just REA and ARX refer cars.

Ron

@Steven Gard posted:

So I'm curious about this milk car thread. Back in March, I asked a question about how to remove the roof from these milk cars to view the tanks inside. None of you members who have posted on this thread replyed to my question. Now there's a post from PRR Steam about his collection, so I feel completely ignored.  Was my question so basic that you all aren't interested in giving me some help here, or did I breach some etiquette boundary that I was not aware of?Please explain.

That's easy.  St Patricks Day was a Wednesday.  While some drinking occurred, it was the middle of the week and most of us had to work Thursday.  Your question was posted Friday.  We were all thinking about getting caught up on what we missed Wednesday and probably too hungover and thus missed your question.

Removal is simple.  Pinch in the middle and pull.  You may need two hands the first few times.

Thanks for the info. Not being Irish (Swedish/French) I wasn't tuned in to the possibility of drinking!😜

@Steven Gard posted:

Thanks for the info. Not being Irish (Swedish/French) I wasn't tuned in to the possibility of drinking!😜

Swedish and French?  Vodka and Wine.  Not a bad combo.

@Steven Gard posted:

So I'm curious about this milk car thread. Back in March, I asked a question about how to remove the roof from these milk cars to view the tanks inside. None of you members who have posted on this thread replyed to my question. Now there's a post from PRR Steam about his collection, so I feel completely ignored.  Was my question so basic that you all aren't interested in giving me some help here, or did I breach some etiquette boundary that I was not aware of?Please explain.

Steve. I started this thread and my apologies for not answering your question.

Apology accepted.

I didn't mean to butt into a thread that was in progress. I bought a Pennsylvania milk car from METCA, and could not figure out how to remove the roof. My question to them went unanswered, so I turned to this thread. That also went unanswered, so was frustrating.

Background about me: I have been running O gauge trains for about 60 years, and also HO for about 50 years. My collection of O gauge is mostly Lionel, and spans 1928 to the present, including a Lionel 253 electric, a 773 Hudson, to a Santa Fe AB diesel unit from 1955.

My HO collection is mostly diesel from the 1960s to the present. My main interests are scenery and lighting. So I'm mostly a "Round and round-er" train operator.

This is my first online "joining". I don't belong to any clubs. Most of what I do I figure out for myself, and I prefer to do things the old-fashioned "analog" way, so have no interest in DCC, or other systems. I am using a control unit that my Dad built for me in about 1960 to operate my O gauge trains, and it works fine.

Probably too much information. My apologies, but no one has to read this.

Steve

@Steven Gard posted:

Apology accepted.

I didn't mean to butt into a thread that was in progress. I bought a Pennsylvania milk car from METCA, and could not figure out how to remove the roof. My question to them went unanswered, so I turned to this thread. That also went unanswered, so was frustrating.

Background about me: I have been running O gauge trains for about 60 years, and also HO for about 50 years. My collection of O gauge is mostly Lionel, and spans 1928 to the present, including a Lionel 253 electric, a 773 Hudson, to a Santa Fe AB diesel unit from 1955.

My HO collection is mostly diesel from the 1960s to the present. My main interests are scenery and lighting. So I'm mostly a "Round and round-er" train operator.

This is my first online "joining". I don't belong to any clubs. Most of what I do I figure out for myself, and I prefer to do things the old-fashioned "analog" way, so have no interest in DCC, or other systems. I am using a control unit that my Dad built for me in about 1960 to operate my O gauge trains, and it works fine.

Probably too much information. My apologies, but no one has to read this.

Steve

Too much information???? Not at all Steve thanks for sharing I enjoy reading  about this kinda stuff. Your more than  welcome to join in with some pics of your milk cars.

@lee drennen posted:

Too much information???? Not at all Steven thanks for sharing I enjoy reading  about this kinda stuff. Your more than  welcome to join in with some pics of your milk cars.

@Steven Gard posted:

I didn't mean to butt into a thread that was in progress. I bought a Pennsylvania milk car from METCA, and could not figure out how to remove the roof. My question to them went unanswered, so I turned to this thread.

Steve

Hi Steve,

I'm curious who you reached out to at METCA.  The few emails I have from you never mentioned anything about the roof, so maybe you reached out to someone else.  I'll followup with you offline.

Stu