Refrigerator car
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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.
Anheuser-Busch was one of the first companies to transport beer nationwide using railroad refrigerator cars.
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
Fruit Growers Express
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Fruit Growers Express was a railroad refrigerator car leasing company that began as a produce-hauling subsidiary of Armour and Company's private refrigerator car line. Armour controlled both the packi
Wooden FGE reefer car at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.
FGE car showing CSXT marking to the left.