(erielack) Meat Traffic

["Paul Brezicki" <doctorpb_@_bellsouth.net>]

Schuyler, meat traffic was fairly ubiquitous on RR's until about 1960 (heck,
even LV handled some), so I think just about any roadname could be seen. The
Central dominated the NY City market because most of the meat packers were
on Mhtn's west side, and were directly accessed by it's West Side freight
line. During the 60's meat largely shifted to intermodal, which permitted EL
to gain market share. However it became evident that this traffic was a loss
leader with consistently high L&D payouts and lack of backhaul, so by 1970
EL was phasing it out. (Fortunately the UPS business came along at about the
same time, but that's another story).

Paul B

From: "Schuyler Larrabee" <schuyler.larrabee_@_verizon.net>
Subject: (erielack) Meat traffic

Intermountain's about to release a new model, ART meat reefers.
http://www.intermountain-railway.com/flyer38w.jpg
Which generates a question (or five).  They show Armour, Wilson, and two
colors of Raskin Packing.
Was any one or combination of these more common on the ERIE from Chicago?
And, oh, all right, on
the DL&W?  8^)  I understand that a lot of meat traveled via NYC to NYC,
while the ERIE did more
perishable traffic.  But some meat must have traveled via ERIE/DL&W if only
to local distributors.

What do we know?

SGL



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