DV Butter Dish Milk And Chem cars
🟡 Updated this yearPreview

🔍 Analysis
- 👍 3.2% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #273 of 1002 Models and Textures mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Adds Butter Dish cars based on the Bordens Butter Dish Car for Milk and Chemical service in Derail Valley. 4 Skins for milk (2 versions) and 4 Skins for chemical (2 versions) I added a few loads that they never been used for in real life but felt like if they where general service cars that they could of been retrofitted for hauling. All skins are loosely based off of real paint jobs except for the Sperex and Butter Dish Dairy Skin. The Butter Dish skin I just wanted to have fun and make a play on the car's name. Hope You enjoy.
The Butter Dish cars were a rebuild from Borden's wooden milk cars. It was reported that 35 cars saw conversions to the Butter Dish style. One Butter Dish car, #520 is preserved at the Illinois Ry, Museum in Union, Illinois. I thank them and one of their volunteers for sending me photos since they are to far away for me to visit in person.
The Butter Dish cars originally had a top fin and two end fins. Later during the war the top fin was removed for scrap metal purposes.
In the mid to late 1950's the Butter Dish milk cars changed usage. They went from hauling milk to glue ingredients while others just became storage.
Note if you would like to re-skin any of my content and I haven't made a reskin kit for the car you want to skin yet. Please feel free to contact me and I'll whip up a PSD for you to start your skin. Or bump making a reskin kit up higher on my to-do list.
Adds Butter Dish tank cars based on the Borden's design for milk and chemical transport in Derail Valley. Includes 4 milk skins (2 versions) and 4 chemical skins (2 versions). A niche cosmetic mod for players wanting more rolling stock variety.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Nice variety for milk and chemical haulers (8 skins total)
- Based on a real prototype, adds authenticity for railfans
- Small but active community (20 endorsements, 634 downloads)
⚠️ Cons
- Only 20 endorsements — not widely tested, may have bugs
- Last updated Nov 2025 — could break with future game patches
For Derail Valley players who want more realistic rolling stock for milk and chemical routes. If you're into prototypical freight cars and don't mind a niche mod, this is for you. Skip if you want gameplay changes — this is purely cosmetic.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Make sure to place the mod files in the correct Derail Valley mod folder (usually Steam/steamapps/common/DerailValley/Mods).
- If you use a mod manager, let it handle the installation to avoid conflicts.
- Test the cars in sandbox mode first to see if they appear correctly before starting a career run.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Derailvalley Mods
- Author
- Dylanviey
- Version
- 1.2
- Downloads
- 634
- Endorsements
- 20
- Category
- Models and Textures
- Created
- 11/15/2025
- Updated
- 11/20/2025
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