From the Chenango Semi-Weekly Telegraph
of Norwich, NY - Wednesday, July 30, 1879

( Item # 1 )

   Trains on the Auburn branch are hereafter to run only as far as Otselic.

( Item # 2 )

Refrigerator Cars.

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   Several refrigerator cars recently added to the rolling stock of the N.Y. & O. Midland R.R., are now standing in the yard in this village. They are intended for the transportation of butter, cheese, berries etc. The cars were constructed in the Midland shops at Oswego, are very ingenious contrivances and must be a great improvement over the old cars for the purpose of shipping butter and keeping it cool and sweet.

   The exterior of of the car is the same as an ordinary box car, but the interior is lined with a sheathing, leaving a space between the outer and inner walls for the air to circulate. Inside doors as nearly air tight as possible are also attached, and in each end of the car near the roof is an ice tank of vulcanized iron, from which runs a two inch pipe to the bottom of the car to let off the water that accumulates from the melting ice, the pipe being bent in the form of a hook at the bottom, so that at all times it is full of water and prevents the air from reaching the ice tanks, which once filled with ice will last four days.

   These cars are to run on the Midland, from Norwich every day, commencing next week, and we have no doubt that our dairymen will avail themselves of this opportunity of transporting their goods to market, as by so doing they can place their dairy products in market fresh every morning, in condition to compete in price with the most favored nearby localities. Indeed with such conveniences as are now afforded them for a trifling additional cost of carrying, practically speaking, Chenango county is as nearby as Orange county. This new attention to the wants of Chenango farmers, commends the Midland to their generous patronage.