Perishable transit times was Re: Re: Livestock through Chicago
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PRR time from Chicago to Greenville (NYC) 40 hours via Columbus almost all perishables went via Columbus not Crestline
PRR Time E St Louis to Greenville (NYC) 47 hours 15 mins
From 1952 freight schedules
Re-icing at Columbus and Huntington
Rich Orr
PRR Time E St Louis to Greenville (NYC) 47 hours 15 mins
From 1952 freight schedules
Re-icing at Columbus and Huntington
Rich Orr
Anyone have in transit times for perishables to NYC or any other
east cost cities by rail? As the ATSF promo film "Fresh for your health" brags
it "only" took 6 days to get reefers to Chicago, I figure about 17 mph, so more
than a week rolling across country little wonder their was loss on the east
coast. In comparison, if you go your kicks on route 66 averaging 45 mph 14
hours a day over the whole route you could be done in under 4 days (at about
25.5 average MPH). Little wonder the truckers won increasing amounts of that
business too.
Given the ice melts and the contents rot at the same rate moving or
sitting in a yard simply stopping less for switching would have reduced in the
ATSF example would reduced claims, reduced ice and improved car
utilization.
Mark Rickert