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Very nice 👍 

Like that expediting milk shipments was so important that the flat car required high speed trucks !

Mark,

these cars were near the head end and had premium scheduling due to their perishable nature.    I have the definitive series of books on milk cars, it was a fascinating area of American life and history during the steam age.   You might notice that Renkins was in nyc.   The cars ran from upstate NY down to the city for bottling and distribution.

Brady;

Wow... As a kid growing up in Brooklyn, we had our milk delivered from Renken's. Home delivery was going out of style at the time (late 50's, early 60's) but you could tell who still got it by the insulated metal box on the front stoop.

Could you tell me where you got those containers???

Thanks

Paul, this is a brass model imported by Carworks many years ago.   The bell tanks are brass too.    I have three models and had duplicate decals run for the cars.    I already had a stash of decals for the tanks.   The models are pretty keen, but not as nice as the overland poultry car!

i will be finishing the other two models soon.   They will have different tank colors: white and Pullman green per the lessee.

The milk cars were at the head end so that they could be quickly switched out, at the terminal.  I assume !

Great looking cars Brad - thanks for sharing.

  Depending on the nature of the operation milk cars could be coupled at either the head or tail end of a passenger train.  Milk train operations can provide modelers some interesting passenger train switching opportunities.  I model the daily milk car handling at Huntingdon, PA where Supplee-Wills-Jones milk tank cars were exchanged to and from Philadelphia daily.  In the morning a pair of empties were dropped off at Huntingdon.  Later that day the same two cars were picked up for delivery to the main plant in Philadelphia.  One of the cars was loaded at the Supplee creamery in Huntingdon, the other was hauled by the Huntingdon & Broad Top Mountain RR to a Supplee creamery at Bedford, PA.  To expedite pickup and drop off of the cars on the PRR Middle Division main line at Huntingdon a locally assigned H9 2-8-0 would couple or uncouple the milk tank cars to the tail end of 2nd class passenger trains.   The seven Supplee owned cars in this service had wood bodies containing a pair of non-refrigerated glass lined steel tanks.  Attached below are models of two of two different prototype cars - SWJX 3 an Overland model, SWJX 7 a 2 railed Lionel.  The decals were done by the late Dan Brown.  Two railing, painting, and lettering by Lee Turner.  

Somewhat different Supplee-Wills Jones car