ACF Industries, originally the American Car and Foundry Company, was an American manufacturer of railroad rolling stock. One of its subsidiaries was once a manufacturer of motor coaches and trolley co
A 1907 postcard depicting the ACF plant in St. Charles, Missouri
A refrigerator car built by ACF in 1911
An M5A1, the last tank, of 15,244, built at ACF's Berwick plant that rolled off the production line on April 17, 1944
External-braced wooden boxcar built for sugar service in Cuba by ACF, c. 1922
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A refrigerator car is a refrigerated boxcar, a piece of railroad rolling stock designed to carry perishable freight at specific temperatures. Refrigerator cars differ from simple insulated boxcars and
A modern refrigerator car. The mechanical refrigeration unit is housed behind the grill at the lower right, the car's "A" end.
Illinois Central Railroad #14713, a ventilated fruit car dating from 1893
An advertisement taken from the 1st edition (1879) of the Car-Builders Dictionary for the Tiffany Refrigerator Car Company, a pioneer in the design of refrigerated railroad cars