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  2. Refrigerator car - Wikipedia

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    This engraving of Tiffany's original "Summer and Winter Car" appeared in the Railroad Gazette just before Joel Tiffany received his refrigerator car patent in July, 1877. Tiffany's design mounted the ice tank in a clerestory atop the car's roof, and relied on a train's motion to circulate cool air throughout the cargo space.

  3. St. Louis Refrigerator Car Company - Wikipedia

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    St. Louis Refrigerator Car Co. #4466, a bunkerless refrigerator car, AAR mechanical designation RB, passes through Limon, Colorado on November 9, 1951.. The St. Louis Refrigerator Car Company (SLRX) was a private refrigerator car line established on February 3, 1878, by Anheuser-Busch, the brewer's first subsidiary.

  4. Swift Refrigerator Line - Wikipedia

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    Inside a Swift refrigerator can, hanging the sides of beef while an inspector looks on. The Swift Refrigerator Line (SRL, also known as the Swift Refrigerator Transportation Company) was a private refrigerator car line established around 1875 by Chicago meat packer Gustavus Swift, the founder of Swift and Company. The line pre-dated mechanical ...

  5. Gustavus Franklin Swift - Wikipedia

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    In 1880, the Peninsular Car Company (subsequently purchased by American Car & Foundry) delivered to Swift the first of these units, and the Swift Refrigerator Line (SRL) was created. Within a year the Line's roster had risen to nearly 200 units, and Swift was transporting an average of 3,000 carcasses a week to Boston.

  6. Pacific Fruit Express - Wikipedia

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    PFE refrigerator cars are available as model railroad cars in several gauges, including O, HO, N, and Z. Model railcars of the PFE were available as early as 1928. [13] At the Happy Hollow Park & Zoo in San Jose, California there is a rollercoaster ride called the Pacific Fruit Express and the cars are stylized to look like wooden fruit cartons.

  7. Fruit Growers Express - Wikipedia

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    Wooden FGE reefer car at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania. Fruit Growers Express (FGE) 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 packing operations and the transport insulated railroad car line, and its customers ...

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  9. Santa Fe Refrigerator Despatch - Wikipedia

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    There is disagreement among historians as to the color of these cars: white, ivory, light gray, or canary yellow. The Santa Fe Refrigerator Despatch ( reporting mark SFRD ) was a railroad refrigerator car line established as a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway in 1884 to carry perishable commodities.

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