| Last updated on January 12, 2021
An online extra from the November 2014 Model Railroader
The Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum near Rochester, N.Y., took delivery of an Erie-Lackawanna RR steel-bodied milk car, no. 6603, in 1987. It was built by the Greenville Steel Car Co. for the Erie RR in June 1935. At first glance, the car looks like a standard steel refrigerator car. But since it was intended for passenger train use, it had high-speed trucks, a pass-through steam line, and a train signal line.
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An update to what I wrote earlier: the Erie trucks for this model and some of that road's cabooses are now offered by Bethlehem Car Works in its Kit Bits line, #129, listing for $13.95 per pair.
Nickel Plate Products imported a brass HO model of the unrebuilt milk car version of this car decades ago, selling it along with an Erie modernized heavyweight coach. Funaro & Camerlengo (fandckits.com) still sells HO resin kits for this car with its original hinged milk car doors. Some of the full-sized cars were sold to the Boston & Maine still equipped with those doors; one of them stood near the Hood Milk plant in the Charlestown section of Boston for many years. The F&C kits include either Erie or B&M decals but do not include the trucks, which appear to be the same type used under a relatively early type of Erie bay window caboose (three of which went from the Erie Lackawanna to the Delaware & Hudson). The closest HO equivalent to the trucks have cast metal sideframes and were probably originally made by Red Ball, more recently by Cape Line, I think.