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RE: (erielack) Cool Whip and RBLs



> Mike Dickinson said:
> > Who is the
> > correct Company for Coolwhip, Kraft or Rich Prods. I believe
> > they were shipped out of the Avon (Buffalo area).
> 
> Paul T responded:
> > The orange 5000-series cars were used for Cool Whip service (out of
> > Avon, NY, if memory serves me?)
> 
> 
> Cool Whip was originally manufactured by Birds Eye division of General
> Foods, in Avon NY.  Birds Eye later became part of Kraft.
> 
> The orange Erie Lackawanna RBLs were frequent visitors to Avon in the 70s.
> It would appear that many of them were assigned to this customer.
> 
> JR

Not "most."  ALL of them.  They were built specifically for that service.

SGL


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