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[quote user="greyhounds"][quote user="KCSfan"] 5 days across country for perishables is pitiful by any standard of measurement. My God in the 1940's the ICRR was running 10 and 12 car unit trains of strawberries in wooden sided Railway Express Reefers during the spring season covering the 867 miles from Hammind, LA to Chicago in 16+ hours which rivaled the times of the Panama Limited and City of NO. How did they do it, in a word PRIORITY. They were dispatched as passenger extras behind high stepping 4-6-2's and stopped only for engine and crew changes en route. [/quote] Well, strawberries are a bad example.  So I knew this really hot lady who got into railroad management with the Milwaukee and latter CSX.  Her name was Dorthy Crenshaw.  If any of you knows where she's at please email me, 'cause I'm single again. So I've got her out to dinner one night and we get a strawberry dish for dessert.  In my ususal "Sweet Talkin' Guy" approach, I turn the converstation to the movement of freight. And I unfortunatly say:  "You know, these fly".  It pretty much went downhill from there. Strawberies are so perishiable that they move by air freight.  Or they are produced locally.  Or they put a truck drivin' team on 'em.  Forget strawberries. But the railroads can successfully handle the lettuce from California to New York.  And they can handle the bacon you eat for breakfast.  And your steak.  It's just gonna' take someone to put it all together.    [/quote] I had a air freight load off a KLM Airlines at Kennedy. It had 6 pallets for the Grocery market near Philly. 4 Cases of beef tomatos packed in balsa under 1000 pounds of green peppers did not survive the trip. I did pull my knife to cut the netting and repack the load to save the tomatos but Kennedy's foreman told me in no uncertain terms not to touch it. The following day's yelling in 4 languages on two seperate payphones at the same time in conference call was one to remember as everyone tried to assign blame. That was a very long time ago. What I know of Perishables was they would travel up to 10 days in a reefer once loaded including time for icing in the late 40's from California to New York Markets which was pretty durn good for the time. I think some perishables like Strawberries are so hot that they were put on passenger trains and rushed to market absolutely asap.
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