Borden's Milk Tanks Discovered in PA!

Thomas Cornillie · **Joined:** Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:19 pm **Posts:** 272

Dear Ted & Group,

There are two types of milk tank cars at IRM: a Borden's "Butter Dish" milk tank car, and 2 GPEX milk tank cars (one of which has been restored). The article listed below has more information about these (and other types of milk tank cars).

https://riverraisinmodels.com/libraryData/milktrains.pdf

http://web.archive.org/web/20200107002302/https://riverraisinmodels.com/libraryData/milktrains.pdf

The tanks discovered about 16 years ago fall into the category of a swap-body that could be used on a specially equipped flatcar or trailer.

WVNorthern · **Posted:** Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:46 pm

Alexander D. Mitchell IV wrote:

In other news: Borden just filed for bankruptcy protection:

https://www.inquirer.com/business/borde ... 00106.html

Ironically this incident with a Borden truck in WV happened on the same day as the bankruptcy filing.

RDGRAILFAN · **Posted:** Tue Jan 07, 2020 5:57 pm

it looks like Eastern Milk Producers Co-Op was merged (1969) into Dairylea Cooperative Inc. which was headquartered in the same East Syracuse building, Dairylea then merged with Dairy Farmers of America moved operations to the Midwest
Whoever owns the old processing plant would know more about the "ownership" of the cars

scottychaos · **Posted:** Wed Jan 08, 2020 8:48 am

The original posts in this thread were made in 2004, 16 years ago.
Anyone know if the tanks are still there?

Scot