Just picked up today my lionel B&O milk car that i ordered from the 2019 vol 2 catalog.
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That looks nice. I thought about buying it pre-order when the catalog came out but didn't I may yet if I can find one.
This is my 1st refridgerator dairy car and i am not disappointed. I placed it behind the tender on my B&O passenger consist with the 2019 EM1 fantasy colors locomotive as dairy cars sometimes were pulled with passenger trains for fast delivery. I like the look. However there is a difference in the shades of the blues
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@rpmcobra posted:That looks nice. I thought about buying it pre-order when the catalog came out but didn't I may yet if I can find one.
Have one, brand new, haven't taken it out of box; preordered it years ago and now no longer modeling B&O. If interested my email is in profile, $60.00 plus $10.00 USPS Priority Mail.
Just for information, this is an older B&O milk car, the TCA special run from 2003-04, I think. Not blue obviously, but quite attractive, and another choice for a B&O consist.
That harmony creamery co car is another one i will be getting in the near future. That is a very attractive piece.
Yeah, the blue on your loco and the milk car is more of royal blue, versus the bando blue on your passenger cars.
Bando blue is what B&O used. Bando = B and O blue.
I like the bando blue the most. It seems as though its always a roll of the dice as to what the actual color of an item will be as compared to a catalog picture. Its to bad the manufactures dont stick to one set color shade that is as close to real as possible. I was trying to go outside of the typical all black engines when i ordered the blue em1. Now i learned to maybe wait till something comes out and seeing it 1st hand before purchasing products.
What and why is that thing above the coupler? It looks like a European style buffer to me.
@peter allen 072518 posted:What and why is that thing above the coupler? It looks like a European style buffer to me.
Thats exactly what it is, and its accurate: http://users.rcn.com/jimdu4/MilkTrains/NYC_6535.htm
@Steam era posted:This is my 1st refridgerator dairy car and i am not disappointed. I placed it behind the tender on my B&O passenger consist with the 2019 EM1 fantasy colors locomotive as dairy cars sometimes were pulled with passenger trains for fast delivery. I like the look. However there is a difference in the shades of the blues
What are your thoughts on the trucks and couplers? Many people are reporting issues with them on the new scale milk cars from Lionel.
So why do milk cars have buffers?
@peter allen 072518 posted:So why do milk cars have buffers?
Because most/many milk cars were handled on the headend of passenger trains, thus the milk car, as well as REA express reefers & boxcars, had to couple up to a passenger car. Passenger cars, as well as baggage cars, were equipped with diaphragms, which included a "buffer" device over the coupler, so that when the diaphragms were compressed, there was a smooth passenger/employee transition between cars. Thus, milk and express boxcars had to be equipped with the same "buffer" device for coupling to passenger/baggage equipment.
Hot Water thanks a ton!
