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Erie Railroad Perishable Service

For many years PFE and Santa Fe recommended to shippers routing perishables for New York and New England over the Erie Railroad due to their speed and well-earned low damage reputation.

Schuyler Larrabee commented on the Groups.io Real Steam Era Freight Car Discussion group:

I managed to severely irritate a member of my model railroad club by stating that the ERIE delivered more perishable traffic to New York (the City) than any other railroad.? (This was true for many years).? As a

former NY Central employee, he took great umbrage at that, and said he could not believe that was true, as the Central had service directly onto Manhattan, and (he blustered) I'll have to check the records.

Several weeks later . . . I asked if he'd done that.? "Yes."? And the results??

He had no answer to that.

Bob Chaparro

Moderator