Milk car

Passenger trains typically offered the fastest service, so milk cans might have first been loaded into baggage cars.

[2] Milk was shipped from Wisconsin to Florida as a test; and the temperature rose only a single degree Fahrenheit (0.56 °C) during a trip lasting 101 hours.

[3] Caspar Pfaudler invented a method of lining cast iron tanks with glass while working with the brewing industry.

A returning train of empty milk cars departed the city in the early morning hours.

These were often the last scheduled passenger trains serving those rural areas, and most milk was traveling in highway trucks by 1960.

The last fifteen were numbered 1900–1914, and equipped with gasoline-powered mechanical refrigeration to transport bottled milk as a unit train from Bellows Falls, Vermont to First National Stores in Somerville, Massachusetts.

B&M cars numbered 1915-1934 were built without mechanical refrigeration and served as insulated boxcars when no longer needed for milk transport.